# Kitura Is Now a Community Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Kitura\ **Tags:** announcement\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199 "2020-08-07T22:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dannys42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/dannys42/32/3994_2.png) [@dannys42](https://forums.swift.org/u/dannys42)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/1 "2020-08-07T22:27:59Z")
Hello Kitura community, I’m delighted to announce that the IBM team who built Kitura are happy to aid in transitioning Kitura to a community project. With their blessing, I’m proud to be taking on the role as the community project maintainer. I’ll be working with IBM over the next few weeks to work out the logistics in transferring ownership of the project. I know a lot of us have had questions about the future of Kitura. I’m glad to help keep the project going and I’m looking forward to collaborating with others who are passionate about server-side Swift. If you’re interested in helping to shape the future direction of Kitura, please reach out! No role is too small or too big! Please follow-up in this group or DM me. For all you Kitura users, hang in there. I hope to be reaching out soon to get your perspectives on how you’re using Kitura and where you’d like to see improvements. And of course the project will best be served by contributions from all you lovely people out there, so get ready to send those pull-requests! Thanks! Danny ---
**Author:** ![lukasa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/lukasa/32/1232_2.png) [@lukasa](https://forums.swift.org/u/lukasa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/2 "2020-08-08T06:17:46Z")
This is great to hear Danny! ---
**Author:** ![ktoso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/ktoso/32/44526_2.png) [@ktoso](https://forums.swift.org/u/ktoso)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/3 "2020-08-08T08:59:06Z")
That’s great news Danny! Thanks for taking this on 🙂 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![fabrijp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90db22/32.png) [@fabrijp](https://forums.swift.org/u/fabrijp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/4 "2020-08-09T03:15:12Z")
Wonderful ! I love Kitura :D ---
**Author:** ![johannesweiss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/johannesweiss/32/38183_2.png) [@johannesweiss](https://forums.swift.org/u/johannesweiss)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/5 "2020-08-09T19:25:08Z")
Super cool! Thanks to IBM and the Kitura community for stepping up! ---
**Author:** ![jonas.hirshland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@jonas.hirshland](https://forums.swift.org/u/jonas.hirshland)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/6 "2020-08-13T18:10:22Z")
Excited to try Kitura out :) 🤓 ---
**Author:** ![Sean.Batson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/sean.batson/32/40290_2.png) [@Sean.Batson](https://forums.swift.org/u/Sean.Batson)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/7 "2020-08-14T04:53:53Z")
Would be nice to see this ported to the IBM I platform. ---
**Author:** ![drewmccormack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/drewmccormack/32/9181_2.png) [@drewmccormack](https://forums.swift.org/u/drewmccormack)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/8 "2020-08-14T08:05:25Z")
Great to hear! We are dependent on kitura at [agenda.com](http://agenda.com) and welcome this news. We will try to help where we can. For us, it is most important that things are stable. New features are great, but we would prefer the basis just keeps on keepin' on. Leave the experimental stuff to the other guys. ---
**Author:** ![jsoneaday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/jsoneaday/32/12870_2.png) [@jsoneaday](https://forums.swift.org/u/jsoneaday)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/9 "2020-08-14T18:10:15Z")
Hey anything happening with this project? I see nothing going on the site? Has transfer happened? ---
**Author:** ![dannys42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/dannys42/32/3994_2.png) [@dannys42](https://forums.swift.org/u/dannys42)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/10 "2020-08-15T16:38:38Z")
Sorry, little visible movement right now. We're trying to make sure the transition is smooth for everyone (regarding package dependencies, etc.). I'll post a notice with the plan before making the change so that everyone is aware. ---
**Author:** ![keniwhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@keniwhat](https://forums.swift.org/u/keniwhat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/11 "2020-08-18T10:18:00Z")
Thanks. Good work. ---
**Author:** ![Tuming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/tuming/32/23471_2.png) [@Tuming](https://forums.swift.org/u/Tuming)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/12 "2020-08-20T01:57:20Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![betzerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/betzerra/32/5857_2.png) [@betzerra](https://forums.swift.org/u/betzerra)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/13 "2025-06-19T20:49:13Z")
Hi everyone! 👋 I noticed that [latest commit](https://github.com/Kitura/Kitura/commit/60334372274bd78522af7d488d6eb0920a591a8d) in Kitura is from **Oct 7, 2022**. Does this mean that Kitura is not maintained anymore? Can anyone confirm this? ---
**Author:** ![AlexanderM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/alexanderm/32/9781_2.png) [@AlexanderM](https://forums.swift.org/u/AlexanderM)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/14 "2025-06-19T21:10:17Z")
That's a pretty safe indication that it's not maintained. [https://vapor.codes/](https://vapor.codes/) is usually the go-to web framework for Swift these days. (I'm not affiliated) ---
**Author:** ![ktoso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/ktoso/32/44526_2.png) [@ktoso](https://forums.swift.org/u/ktoso)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/15 "2025-06-20T03:33:02Z")
Generally we (server workgroup) recommend Vapor or Hummingbird. They differ in their approach a bit, vapor is “batteries included” framework and Hummingbird is a more thin just server library. They’re both well maintained, hope you’ll enjoy them :-) ---
**Author:** ![betzerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/betzerra/32/5857_2.png) [@betzerra](https://forums.swift.org/u/betzerra)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/16 "2025-06-20T04:21:32Z")
@AlexanderM > That's a pretty safe indication that it's not maintained. Hahaha… yeah, I realized I sounded pretty naive on my previous post asking the way I did 🤣 I **LOVE** Vapor, I use it on a sideproject I have. @ktoso > Generally we (server workgroup) recommend Vapor or Hummingbird. Cool! I’ll check Hummingbird, it might be a better fit than Vapor for what I’m looking for in this very specific case. FYI I looked for [Perfect](https://perfect.org) and seemed un-maintained too 😬 ---
**Author:** ![dannys42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/dannys42/32/3994_2.png) [@dannys42](https://forums.swift.org/u/dannys42)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/kitura-is-now-a-community-project/39199/17 "2025-06-20T23:47:55Z")
There's a few people helping out with Kitura, but unfortunately not enough. If anyone's interested in helping out, I'm still happy to try to keep it alive!