Is Milvus Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
Milvus is a cloud-native vector database built for large-scale similarity search.
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 100/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
Milvus’s master branch received 651 commits in the last 91 days, against 551 in the same 91 days a year earlier (+18%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 46,417 stars on GitHub.
Milvus usage: downloads and installs
milvusdb/milvusDownload and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Docker Hub reports an all-time total. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: Docker Hub, read 18 Oct 2026, 14:54 UTC.
Milvus security practices and adoption
Security practices
OpenSSF Scorecard, an automated review of how the repository is run
- Code review9/10
- Branch protection3/10
- Dangerous workflow0/10
- Pinned dependencies0/10
- Security policy0/10
All 14 checks
- Maintained10/10
- Token permissions0/10
- OpenSSF Best Practices badge5/10
- Binary artifacts9/10
- License10/10
- Fuzzing10/10
- Signed releases0/10
- Packaging10/10
- Static analysis (SAST)0/10
Full report, run 12 Oct 2026
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv3.0.3
- Published14 Oct 2026
- Downloads of its 2 files229
- Contributors336
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: OpenSSF Scorecard, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 35.0 / 35 | 651 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | 118% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 0 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 4 days ago |
| Community | 20.0 / 20 | 1,239 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 1,440. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
Milvus: common questions
Is Milvus still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, Milvus received 651 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 18 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 100 out of 100.
What is the latest Milvus release?
The latest GitHub release of Milvus is v3.0.3, published on 14 October 2026.
How many people contribute to Milvus?
GitHub lists 336 contributors for Milvus. 1,239 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does Milvus use?
GitHub identifies the Milvus licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
Is Milvus secure?
We cannot say whether the code is free of vulnerabilities. What can be measured is how the project is run: the OpenSSF Scorecard gives Milvus 4.4 out of 10 for security practices (run 12 October 2026), covering checks such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies. Read the full report and the project’s security policy before relying on it.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 46,406 | 650 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 46,401 | 652 | Active |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 46,389 | 665 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for Milvus since then.
Other vector databases
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meilisearch | Active | 59.6k | 353 | −37% |
| Milvus | Active | 46.4k | 651 | +18% |
| Faiss | Active | 41.2k | 164 | +59% |
| Qdrant | Active | 35.1k | 709 | +104% |
| Chroma | Slowing down | 29.5k | 115 | −66% |
| Typesense | Slowing down | 27.0k | 31 | −62% |
| pgvector | Active | 23.4k | 118 | +269% |
| Weaviate | Active | 16.9k | 3,561 | +143% |
| LanceDB | Active | 11.7k | 482 | +219% |
| sqlite-vec | No recent commits | 8.2k | 0 | — |
| Vespa | Active | 7.1k | 1,835 | +28% |
| Marqo | No recent commits | 5.0k | 0 | −100% |
| pgvecto.rs | No recent commits | 2.2k | 0 | — |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.