github.com/golang/protobufGo

Verdict

Finished, not abandoned

github.com/golang/protobuf looks complete rather than neglected — no commits for over 2 years. 5 of 112 open issues have had no reply. A library that has stopped changing is not the same as one that has been dropped.

health 29/100

Why this verdict?

finished — No commits for over 365 days, and almost nobody filing new issues — or the README says the project is done.

last commit 912 days ago
almost no new issues — nobody is waiting on a fix

Judged today from signal heuristics. How each verdict is decided

latest v1.5.4
licence BSD-3-Clause
stars 10,085
checked today
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Signals · last 2 checks

Commits 90d

Open issues

112

Unanswered

Contributors

What the project says about itself

Open milestones — unplanned 7/30 done. Source: the repository's milestones.
OpenSSF Scorecard — 4.6 / 10 on 2026-08-17. Source: OpenSSF, via deps.dev. A third party's view of security practice, not part of the health score.

Third-party facts checked today; registry facts on every crawl.

State history 1

When	Change
2026-09-04	first verdict: finished

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