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Apache DolphinScheduler 2025 Year in Review

To all Apache DolphinScheduler community members, developers, partners, and friends who care about our project:

The year 2025 passed in the blink of an eye. Over the past year, Apache DolphinScheduler has achieved remarkable milestones. Our GitHub community continued to grow steadily, with increasing numbers of Stars and Forks. We released multiple important versions, delivering practical new features and further improving system performance and intelligence.

At the same time, community activities flourished with strong support from contributors, and the project gained wide recognition from enterprises, with more than 8,000 companies now using Apache DolphinScheduler in production. The commercial edition also continued to evolve and improve. None of these achievements would have been possible without the dedication and contributions of every community member.
Now, let’s look back together at the highlights of the past year.

GitHub Metrics

  • Stars: As of December 2025, Apache DolphinScheduler has surpassed 14.1k GitHub Stars, ranking among the top projects in its category in terms of daily scheduling volume.


  • Forks: Approximately 5,000, reflecting strong interest and active participation from developers worldwide.
  • Issues: As of December 2025, 8,014 closed, 197 open.
  • Contributors: 609 contributors from companies and organizations around the world, providing strong momentum for the project’s growth.
  • Total PRs: 8,464
  • Lines of Code: 604,460

Project Governance

  • PMC Members: 27
  • Committers: 59
  • Contributors: 609

Top 10 Contributors of the Year

Based on PR submissions, code reviews, documentation improvements, and overall contribution activity in 2025, the Top 10 contributors are recognized in the following categories:

Contribution Masters

Review Stars

Discussion Heroes

Issue Reporters

📅 Statistics period: 2024-12-30 12:24 ~ 2025-12-30 12:24 (UTC)
Generated by SeaTunnel Community Bot at 2025-12-30 20:32

Top 10 Highlights of 2025

Apache DolphinScheduler released multiple versions throughout 2025, introducing many new features and optimizations:

  1. Listener mechanism introduced
    Version 3.3.0 alpha added a Listener mechanism (#14981), enabling better workflow state monitoring and enhanced fault handling.

  2. Multiple alerting channels supported
    Version 3.3.0 alpha added support for Prometheus AlertManager, Aliyun Voice, and HTTP test notifications (#15079, #15248, #15163).

  3. Expanded plugin ecosystem
    Version 3.3.0 alpha introduced OceanBase DataX tasks, EMR Serverless Spark support, and Tencent Cloud COS storage integration.

  4. SSH key support for local tasks
    Version 3.3.1 enabled SSH key authentication for local task execution, improving security and usability.

  5. LDAP TLS/SSL support
    Version 3.3.1 enhanced LDAP security by enabling encrypted authentication.

  6. Custom JDBC parameters for ClickHouse
    Version 3.3.1 added flexible JDBC URL parameter configuration for ClickHouse data sources.

  7. Database performance and stability improvements
    Version 3.3.2 added indexes to improve scheduling query performance and fixed NPE issues related to Zookeeper connection events.

  8. Master module optimization
    The default value of batchTriggerAcquisitionMaxCount was aligned with threadCount, improving scheduling performance, and independent Quartz data source configuration was introduced.

  9. Storage and plugin architecture optimization
    Local storage was decoupled from the HDFS plugin, simplifying the storage architecture and fixing multiple HDFS and Kubernetes mounting issues.

  10. Documentation improvements
    Installation, configuration, and contributor documentation were extensively updated for better clarity and usability.

Community Activities in 2025

  • OSPP：A new gRPC task plugin was contributed, enabling dynamic gRPC calls in the Java runtime.
  • GOSIM Open Source Globalization Workshop: Advice for Open Source Entrepreneurs

  • Community Q&A Star Program
    Outstanding community supporters were recognized for providing high-quality answers.

  • Monthly Merge Star Program
    Over 100 contributors were awarded throughout the year for outstanding code contributions.

Ecosystem Expansion

  • Enterprise Adoption
    Apache DolphinScheduler now serves more than 8,000 enterprises worldwide, supporting core scenarios in automotive, analytics, and manufacturing.

  • Commercial Edition Enhancements
    WhaleScheduler, the commercial edition, introduced features such as resource isolation and cross-cluster scheduling, serving leading enterprises.

  • Awards and Recognition
    Apache DolphinScheduler received the “Excellent Open Source Project Award” at the 2025 Shanghai Open Source Innovation Summit.

The year 2025 was a year of growth and achievement for Apache DolphinScheduler. The community expanded, features matured, and enterprise recognition continued to grow. These achievements mark not an endpoint, but a new beginning. With challenges ahead and new peaks to climb, we look forward to continuing this open-source journey together.

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