Apache Software Foundation Passes 10,000 Committers in FY2026 Report Spanning 302 Projects
The ASF's FY2026 annual report tallies 10,225 committers, 302 projects, 11 new Top-Level Project graduates, and 1,709 releases for the year ended April 30, 2026.
Overview
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has passed 10,000 committers, reaching 10,225 committers working across 302 projects by the end of its 2026 fiscal year, according to the ASF. The foundation released its annual report for the 2026 fiscal year, which ended April 30, 2026, on September 1, 2026, according to GlobeNewswire.
What We Know
The ASF said the 10,000th-committer milestone “reflects the continued growth of the ASF’s global contributor community and its commitment to mentorship, collaboration, consensus-building, and long-term stewardship,” according to the ASF. Ruth Suehle, ASF President, said: “The ASF continues to invest in the infrastructure, tools, standards, and people needed to sustain open source for the long term. From reaching our 10,000th committer and developing trusted release infrastructure to launching our Responsible AI Initiative, this fiscal year underscored the resilience of our ‘community over code’ ethos,” according to the ASF.
Alongside the committer count, the report lists 1,188 members, 62 sponsors, and 210 committees providing support and guidance for ASF projects, according to the ASF. ASF projects issued 1,709 software releases over the fiscal year, the foundation said.
Eleven projects graduated to become Apache Top-Level Projects during FY26: Apache StormCrawler, Apache Gravitino, Apache DevLake, Apache Grails, Apache Fory, Apache HertzBeat, Apache Teaclave, Apache Training, Apache Artemis, Apache Wayang, and Apache HugeGraph, according to the ASF. That graduation wave is separate from the ASF’s promotion of Apache Fluss and Apache Pony Mail earlier in the fiscal year, which is not among the eleven projects named in the FY26 report. The foundation also welcomed 10 new podlings to the Apache Incubator, bringing the incubator’s active pipeline to 28 incubating projects “spanning areas including data lakehouses, graph databases, distributed messaging, workflow orchestration, AI agent frameworks, and security tooling,” according to the ASF. Seven projects were added to the Apache Attic, the foundation’s archive for retired projects, during the same period.
On tooling, the ASF said it advanced Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) as part of its Tooling Initiative to modernize the software release process, with multiple projects testing a second alpha phase covering “automated policy checks, release vote management, artifact verification, signatures, checksums, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and release attestations,” according to the ASF. ASF contributors also worked on international supply-chain transparency standards including CycloneDX, Package-URL, and Common Lifecycle Enumeration (CLE), while supporting adoption of Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) practices and tooling, the foundation said.
The report recaps the $10 million Responsible AI Initiative that the ASF launched during the fiscal year with $1.5 million from Anthropic and $250,000 from Alpha-Omega “focused on sustainable open source security,” according to the ASF.
On community programs, the foundation said 1,095 attendees from 21 nations participated in its Community Over Code conference during the fiscal year, and that 19 community members received nearly $54,000 in financial assistance from the ASF Travel Assistance Committee, according to the ASF. The foundation also said 27 project proposals were accepted for Google Summer of Code, mentored by 30 ASF mentors.
What We Don’t Know
The report does not break down how the 10,225 committers or 302 projects are distributed by project category, region, or corporate affiliation. Neither the ASF’s blog post nor the accompanying press release specifies which of the 62 sponsors are new for FY26 versus continuing, and neither source details individual outcomes from the Apache Trusted Releases second alpha phase beyond the list of capabilities tested.
Analysis
The FY2026 figures mark a round-number milestone — the ASF’s first fiscal year closing above 10,000 committers — but the report otherwise reads as a routine annual accounting rather than a change in direction. The individual initiatives it recaps, including the Responsible AI Initiative and the Fluss/Pony Mail Top-Level Project graduations, were already disclosed earlier in the fiscal year; the report’s news value lies in aggregating them alongside previously unreported totals such as the 1,709 releases, the 210 committees, and the 28 active incubating projects, giving outside observers their first consolidated view of the foundation’s FY26 scale.