Orangescrum Open Source Community Edition Released: Free Self-Hosted Project Management Software

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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Key Advantages of Using Open Source Software

Open-source software refers to a program or application with the source code that is accessible by any user.

Using open-source software, in addition to being extremely cost-effective, provides some significant advantages over paid alternatives.

With traditional paid software companies, the strategy has been referred to as “security through obscurity,” meaning that since with paid software the code is not openly available they believe it to be secure.

So, as an alternative open source software has received more popularity and is used by every organization from startup to enterprise .

We have listed the most common advantages of open source software in the below mentioned infographics.

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How to Start Project Management Practice with Open Source Software

Setting up a Project Management Office has become one of the top priorities for companies in 2020.

Necessity to innovate and deliver almost at a reckless speed has become the norm. No one is exempted from it. Be it enterprises or the ones that are just setting shop. The ability to meet customer demands is the key to survival.

The mad rush that would ensue to stay ahead of the competition will require a lot of planning and organization to not lose sight of the end-goal.

This is where having a robust PMO becomes a critical success factor. And having a well-rounded project management software is the first step.

Choosing just any available project management and collaboration tool wouldn’t do. It has to be a highly conscious decision keeping in mind

• License costs
• Cost of ownership
• Adoption & learning curve involved
• Capabilities’ flexibility for alignment with your business
• Support & upgrades

Whether you are starting up or an established market player you surely cannot afford to spend time and money without an acceptable ROI.

Open Source Project Management software present a great low cost &convenient alternative. 

Primarily for quite a few reasons:

• They are free with no license costs. The costs are only that of hosting.
• You can start small and scale as needed.
• Associated costs are only that of hosting.
• Freedom to tailor it to your specific business needs.
• Total ownership of the code, your improvements and data.

Well, let us dig a little deeper and take a quick look into the practical implications involved with implementation of open source software (OSS) like Orangescrum.

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