GitHub repositories taking off in the last year

Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last year than its pace over the 365 days before would predict, lowest first. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 6 Nov 2026, 05:20 UTC.

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How the ranking works

Stars gained: New stars in the window. "all" means the repo is younger than the window, so the number is every star it has.
Today: Stars since midnight US Pacific time, so a partial day.
Above pace: How many more stars the repo got than its pace in the window before would predict. +500 means 500 more than usual.
Momentum: A daily score: 8 points per star and 2 per fork since midnight UTC, reduced for repos that are this busy every day.
Speed-up: Stars per day in the window divided by stars per day in the window before. "New" means the repo is younger than the window. "Under 14 days" (twice the window; "Under 2 years" for 1 year) means it is older than the window but too young for a full window before it to compare with.
Suspected: Repositories with at least 50 stars are left out as likely bought stars when they have no detected programming language and got those stars within a day of being created; or got them within 14 days while having no watchers, at most 1 fork, no detected language or under 1 KB of code other than HTML and CSS, and either 5 KB or less of files or an owner that is a personal account with at most 1 follower. Repositories with no detected language are also left out when, at any age, they have 5 KB or less of files and got at least 90% of their stars on a single day that ended more than a day ago; or have 5 KB or less of files and belong to a personal account with no followers that was created at most an hour before the repository. Any repository with at least 50 stars is also left out when, under 3 days old, it has no watchers and at least 5 forks and belongs to a personal account with no followers; it stays out while that account has no followers. See them.
Bars: Stars per day (per week for 90 days and 1 year). Bright bars are the selected window. Heights use a square-root scale, so quieter days stay visible next to a spike.

#	Repository	Stars	Today	7d	30d	1y	Above pace ↓	Momentum	Speed-up
12651	The Ruby community's gem hosting service. Ruby · 17 years old	2,443	0	+3	+4	+54	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12652	Pusher Javascript library JavaScript · 16 years old	2,225	0	+1	+3	+54	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12653	High performance library for creating, modiyfing and parsing PDF files in C++ C · 16 years old	1,029	0	+2	+4	+52	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12654	A Django application to manage tickets for an internal helpdesk. Formerly known as Jutda Helpdesk. Python · 16 years old	1,692	0	-1	+5	+65	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12655	The Enterprise-ready testing and specification framework. Java · 15 years old	3,629	0	0	+5	+52	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12656	Java Abstracted Foreign Function Layer Java · 15 years old	1,327	0	-1	+1	+27	-38	0	0.4x, slowing
12657	A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager Ruby · 15 years old	4,004	0	-1	0	+54	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12658	libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application C · 15 years old	3,128	0	+2	+8	+191	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12659	Indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN, the place where the Web was born. Python · 15 years old	2,127	+1	+5	+15	+172	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12660	urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python Python · 15 years old	4,079	0	-1	+9	+160	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12661	sabre/dav is a CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV framework for PHP PHP · 15 years old	1,727	0	+1	+6	+93	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12662	Provides a tight integration of Twig into the Symfony full-stack framework PHP · 15 years old	2,496	0	-1	-1	+13	-38	0	0.3x, slowing
12663	Framework for Evolutionary Message-Driven Microservices on the JVM Java · 14 years old	3,628	0	+1	+7	+161	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12664	CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server Java · 14 years old	1,638	0	0	+1	+19	-38	0	0.3x, slowing
12665	Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images). Please post problems or patches to the mailing list for discussion (see the end of the README below). Python · 14 years old	7,367	+1	+3	+11	+142	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12666	Open Robotics Automation Virtual Environment: An environment for testing, developing, and deploying robotics motion planning algorithms. C++ · 14 years old	823	0	+1	+4	+41	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12667	CSS & JavaScript minifier, in PHP. Removes whitespace, strips comments, combines files (incl. @import statements and small assets in CSS files), and optimizes/shortens a few common programming patterns. PHP · 14 years old	2,040	0	0	+3	+39	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12668	Translates Django models using a registration approach. Python · 14 years old	1,484	0	-1	0	+42	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12669	OSv, a new operating system for the cloud. C · 13 years old	4,266	0	+2	+6	+92	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12670	Very Sleepy, a sampling CPU profiler for Windows C++ · 13 years old	1,241	0	+3	+8	+75	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12671	UNICODE Characters for SYMBL.CC 13 years old	819	0	+2	+4	+31	-38	0	0.4x, slowing
12672	A distributed in-memory data store for the cloud Java · 13 years old	2,222	0	-1	+2	+87	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12673	Reactor Bill Of Materials (tracking reactor-core, reactor-netty and more) 13 years old	3,691	0	-2	+1	+42	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12674	PHP Curl Class makes it easy to send HTTP requests and integrate with web APIs PHP · 13 years old	3,299	0	+1	+5	+34	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12675	A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API Python · 13 years old	3,011	+1	+1	+6	+70	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12676	A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask. Python · 13 years old	2,665	0	-1	+1	+45	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12677	Sphinx theme from Read the Docs Sass · 13 years old	5,111	+1	+4	+20	+185	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12678	A new data structure for accurate on-line accumulation of rank-based statistics such as quantiles and trimmed means Java · 12 years old	2,179	+1	+3	+7	+86	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12679	Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport Java · 12 years old	8,952	+1	+8	+54	+820	-38	0	1.0x, steady
12680	C/C++ Library for Processing Structured Configuration Files C · 12 years old	1,222	0	0	+2	+44	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12681	Light weight cross-platform test automation Go · 12 years old	3,196	0	+1	+8	+104	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12682	HOMER - 100% Open-Source SIP, VoIP, RTC Packet Capture & Monitoring Go · 12 years old	2,031	+1	+5	+14	+190	-38	8	0.8x, slowing
12683	CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind. PHP · 12 years old	3,010	0	-2	0	+39	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12684	ivy, an APL-like calculator Go · 11 years old	1,488	0	+1	+2	+72	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12685	My personal website - built with Next for Static-Export, and GitHub Pages. TypeScript · 11 years old	1,696	0	0	+3	+178	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12686	Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image, video and audio files Java · 11 years old	2,844	0	+1	+13	+138	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12687	Servant is a Haskell DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documenting web applications and more! Haskell · 11 years old	1,967	-1	-2	+2	+68	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12688	Backup and restore your Django database and media Python · 11 years old	1,114	0	0	+1	+59	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12689	Open-source realism mod for Arma 3 SQF · 11 years old	1,108	0	+1	+7	+48	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12690	edb is a cross-platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger. C++ · 11 years old	2,981	0	-1	+9	+151	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12691	An offline Wi-Fi Protected Setup brute-force utility C · 11 years old	1,762	0	+2	+12	+109	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12692	Google APIs Client Library for .NET C# · 11 years old	1,521	0	+1	+3	+74	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12693	Vaadin Flow is a Java framework binding Vaadin web components to Java. This is part of Vaadin 10+. Java · 11 years old	761	0	+1	+7	+64	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12694	No description Dockerfile · 11 years old	1,446	0	+3	+10	+146	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12695	Documentation for Entity Framework Core and Entity Framework 6 Mermaid · 11 years old	1,735	0	-1	+1	+51	-38	0	0.6x, slowing
12696	Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools. Python · 11 years old	1,291	0	+8	+17	+140	-38	0	0.8x, slowing
12697	Scripts for setup/install/firmware update for ChromeOS devices Shell · 11 years old	799	+1	+2	+6	+97	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12698	the blessed package to manage your versions by scm tags Python · 11 years old	954	0	+1	+1	+32	-38	0	0.5x, slowing
12699	Lint JavaScript code blocks in Markdown documents JavaScript · 11 years old	582	0	0	+2	+73	-38	0	0.7x, slowing
12700	OpenID Connect Relying Party and OAuth 2.0 Resource Server implementation in Lua for NGINX / OpenResty Lua · 11 years old	1,073	0	+2	+3	+38	-38	0	0.5x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day.