14 products Sparkpulse tracks are shipping around open source in LMS. The highest-velocity open source products right now are Opencast, Frappe LMS and Open edX (ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity score). The theme runs across 20 sectors, so the momentum you see here is drawn from products competing in different corners of the market. Their velocity scores span 0.0 to 5.0 out of 10, a spread that shows how unevenly shipping cadence is distributed across the field. Below: every tracked product carrying this theme, updated from release data. Everything on this page is regenerated from verified release data, so the ranking reflects the latest changelogs rather than a static list.
#01OpencastOpencast maintains three release lines in parallel, and its feed shows only version numbers.5.0alternatives →#02Frappe LMSFrappe LMS is spending its release cycles on frontend plumbing, not learning features.5.0alternatives →#03Open edXOpen edX maintenance branches carrying security backports, not features5.0alternatives →#04ILIASILIAS ships synchronized security patches across versions 9, 10, and 11 on a monthly maintenance cadence.5.0alternatives →#05TAO TestingTAO ships three patches in one day, all aimed at Resource Manager polish.5.0alternatives →#06ProcessingProcessing is shipping again — and quietly moved its renderer onto wgpu.3.8alternatives →#07OppiaOppia grinds forward on learner UX polish, study guides, and contributor tooling.2.5alternatives →#08ClarolineA French LMS shipping monthly patch releases with no story attached.0.0alternatives →#09SakaiSakai keeps a slow annual cadence — Sakai 25 in mid-2025, 25.1 point release in late 2025, with most feed entries being archival docs.0.0alternatives →#10openSISA student information system that ships once a year and barely says what changed.0.0alternatives →#11Moodle DevMoodle is modernising its frontend stack while hardening the base institutions audit.0.0alternatives →#12DSpaceDSpace 10.0 lands and the 7.x line that most repositories run is now end-of-life.0.0alternatives →#13ClassroomIOPre-1.0 open-source LMS in a security-hardening sprint after a wave of disclosed CVEs.0.0alternatives →#14KolibriKolibri 0.20 alphas add structured courses with units and pre/post tests.0.0alternatives →
Frequently asked questions about open source
Which SaaS tools ship open source in LMS in 2026?
Opencast, Frappe LMS, Open edX, ILIAS, TAO Testing, and 9 more — the open source products Sparkpulse tracks in LMS, ranked by shipping velocity from verified changelogs.
Which open source product has the highest shipping velocity?
Opencast, with the top velocity score (5.0/10) in LMS — Sparkpulse's velocity score is derived from verified release data.
How many products are shipping around open source?
Sparkpulse currently tracks 14 products carrying the open source theme in LMS, updated continuously from verified release data.