Orangescrum Community Edition is now open source. It is free project management software that you host on your own servers, published under the GNU AGPL v3 with no seat limit and no paid tier. The first public release, v0.1.0, went out on 11 August 2026, and the source is on GitHub.
Read it, change it, and run it for as many people as you like.
Source code: github.com/Orangescrum/opensource-community-edition
The release at a glance
Version: v0.1.0, first public release
Released: 11 August 2026
Licence: GNU AGPL v3
Cost: Free. No seat limit, no expiry
Hosting: Self-hosted only, on your infrastructure
Stack: CakePHP 4, PHP 8.2+, PostgreSQL 16, Apache (Nginx supported)
Deployment: Docker, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Rocky, Windows, macOS, AWS AMI, from source
Support: Community: GitHub issues and a Google Group. No SLA
Why are we open-sourcing it?
Orangescrum is built on open source. CakePHP runs the application. PostgreSQL stores every row. PHP executes all of it. None of those sent us an invoice.
Publishing our own source under a copyleft licence is how we pay part of that back.
There is a second reason, and it is about our customers rather than us. Over fifteen years we have kept meeting teams who cannot use a hosted tool. A hospital. A bank. A defence supplier. A government department. Their rules do not permit project data to sit on infrastructure they cannot inspect. Those teams do not want a longer security questionnaire. They want to read the code and run it themselves.
Now they can, at no cost.
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