Magento Open Source
Open-source PHP e-commerce platform from Adobe, the free base of Adobe Commerce.
magento.com/products/magento-open-sourcerepositorydocs
Magento Open Source is the free, PHP-based e-commerce platform from Adobe, and the code base that Adobe Commerce builds on. A store runs on MySQL or MariaDB with OpenSearch for search, Valkey for cache, and RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ Artemis as the message queue. The project’s README lists these as tested versions. It exposes REST and GraphQL APIs for headless use. Default templates are PHTML files, alongside Knockout HTML templates. The install comes from a Composer repository at repo.magento.com that needs Marketplace access keys, so it is not a public Composer package. Many system functions depend on cron, which bin/magento cron:install sets up.
Worth knowing
The published support schedule is written for Adobe Commerce, and those pages do not name Magento Open Source.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request11
- Install with
- composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition8
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, links, Owned by, Categories, License model
api.github.com/repos/magento/magento2/readme - 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer, Maintained by, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/magento/magento2 - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Magento&language=en&format=json - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Content storage, Databases
experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/system-requirements - 2026-10-18: Minimum runtime, License
api.github.com/repos/magento/magento2/contents/composer.json?ref=2.4.9 - 2026-10-18: Content API
developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/ - 2026-10-18: Templating
developer.adobe.com/commerce/frontend-core/guide/templates/ - 2026-10-18: Install with
experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/composer - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/magento/magento2/releases - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/magento/magento2/contributors - 2026-10-19: Runs as
experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/commerce-operations/installation-guide/overview.html