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Athens vs Verdaccio
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Athens | Verdaccio |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 4.8k | 18k |
| Latest | v0.19.2 | v6.10.5 |
| Last push | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-05 |
| Release cadence | about 15 days between releases | too few releases |
| Active contributors | 7 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 9 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Both replace JFrog Artifactory. Alternatives to JFrog Artifactory →
PartialAthensGo modules only, as a module proxy and cache.
PartialVerdaccioA private npm registry that proxies the public one, for npm packages only.
Athens
- v0.19.22026-10-01A rerelease of
- v0.19.12026-10-01A rerelease of
- v0.19.02026-10-01Add -verify-storage to purge checksum-mismatched modules from storage (#2145)
- v0.18.12026-07-15chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.51.0 to 0.52.0 by @dependabot[bot] in
- v0.18.02026-06-14stash/redis: add cluster-mode client support for singleflight
Verdaccio
- v7.0.0-next-7.302026-10-03a307098: Migrate the 7.x release workflow to Changesets action v2 and CLI v3.pre-release
- v6.10.52026-10-032ccbacf: Migrate the 6.x release workflow to Changesets action v2 and CLI v3.
- v7.0.0-next-7.292026-09-27908ccbb: Update verdaccio dependencies (@verdaccio/, verdaccio, verdaccio-) to the next-9 npm dist-tag.pre-release
- v7.0.0-next-7.282026-09-266fd3e8a: Make /-/v1/search work for storage plugins that still use the callback API.pre-release
- v6.10.42026-09-207730e60: Update express to 4.22.3 — directly and through @verdaccio/middleware 8.1.4,
Athens
✓ signed The latest release, v0.19.2, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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Verdaccio
✓ signed The latest release, v6.10.5, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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