libarchive

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Overview

HEALTH SCORE

Excellent

95out of 100

Strong maintainer coverage and security posture. Development cadence is the only remaining gap.

LIFECYCLE

Active

Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.

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Health breakdown

Excellent(95/100)

Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.

Maintainer responsiveness

Median response time is 1 day.

Bus factor

25 active maintainers currently have merge rights.

Organization Diversity

Contributors span 155 organizations.

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About

Libarchive is a multi-format archive and compression library that provides a single interface for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, including tar, pax, cpio, ISO9660, zip, and more. It supports multiple compression methods and can handle both file and in-memory archive operations.

First commit

April 2008

Software value

$6.6M