License and Releases

License, Team and Release Cadence

Framework7 572,986 , its bindings, the CLI and the icon font are MIT licensed: you can use and modify them in closed-source, commercial apps, provided you keep the copyright notice in node_modules/framework7/LICENSE. There is no paid edition; sponsors and GitHub Sponsors 29 fund the work.

The team is small. Of the commits to framework7io/framework7, 6,333 are Kharlampidi's and the next contributor has

In September 2026 the repository had 18,760 stars and 241 open issues, with its last push on 8 September. It is

active, but essentially a one-person project, which matters for an app you plan to keep for a decade. npm 2,036 records each version's publication date:

Listing the date of every Framework7 major releaseShell

npm view framework7 time --json |
  jq -r 'to_entries[] | select(.key | test("^[0-9]+[.]0[.]0$")) | "\(.key)  \(.value[:10])"'

Output

1.0.0  2015-02-11
2.0.0  2017-12-03
3.0.0  2018-07-05
4.0.0  2019-02-07
5.0.0  2019-10-07
6.0.0  2020-12-31
7.0.0  2022-04-15
8.0.0  2023-04-03
9.0.0  2025-11-25

From 2017 to 2023 a major version arrived every 7 to 16 months; version 8 then lasted two and a half years. Nine patch and minor releases followed 9.0.0, the latest being 9.1.3 on 25 August 2026. Majors remove features (version 8 dropped Aurora and five components and modules, version 9 dropped dynamicNavbar), so pin the exact version in package.json and read the "Migration from v8 to v9" guide before upgrading.

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