Discourse
Modern open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
Overview
Modern open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
- Category
- Collaboration · Open source
- Platforms
- Self-hosted, Cloud, Web
- Pricing
- Free
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Source code
- discourse/discourse
- Repository stars
- 47,865
- API
- No public API description
Release history
Updated 25 days ago5 releases in the last 12 months.
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v2026.1.8
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v2026.6.3
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v2026.7.2
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v2026.8.0
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v2026.9.0-latest
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