OpenMage
Community-driven long-term support fork of Magento Community Edition with security patches, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
What is OpenMage?
OpenMage LTS is a community-driven long-term support fork of Magento Community Edition (Magento 1.x). It provides ongoing security patches, bug fixes, and performance improvements for Magento 1.x stores after official support ended. The project enables merchants to continue running their ecommerce stores securely without requiring immediate migration to newer platforms.
Magento 1.x store owners, developers, and agencies who need to maintain existing Magento Community Edition installations with ongoing security and stability updates. It's particularly valuable for businesses that cannot immediately migrate to Magento 2 or other platforms.
Developers choose OpenMage LTS because it provides a free, community-supported alternative to abandoned Magento 1.x, with regular security patches and bug fixes that would otherwise require expensive custom development or forced migration to newer platforms.
Overview
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Use Cases
Best For
- Maintaining Magento 1.x stores after official support ended
- Securing legacy Magento installations with vulnerability patches
- Fixing bugs in Magento Community Edition without custom development
- Extending the lifespan of Magento 1.x ecommerce stores
- Avoiding immediate migration to Magento 2 or other platforms
- Community-supported maintenance of Magento CE codebase
Not Ideal For
- New ecommerce projects starting from scratch that require modern features like headless APIs or progressive web apps
- Businesses needing official vendor support with guaranteed SLAs from Adobe or enterprise providers
- Projects requiring integrations with latest payment gateways or services only supported in Magento 2 or newer platforms
- Teams planning to scale aggressively and benefit from Magento 2's performance architecture or cloud-native deployments
Pros & Cons
Pros
Regular updates address security vulnerabilities, evidenced by the security workflow badges in the README, ensuring stores remain protected after official Magento 1.x support ended.
Integrates community-contributed fixes for known issues in the Magento CE codebase, reducing the need for expensive custom development, as highlighted in the key features.
Maintains compatibility with existing Magento 1.x installations and extensions, allowing smooth transitions from official releases without breaking changes.
Includes optimizations and enhancements that improve store speed and reliability, as noted in the key features from community contributions.
Cons
Lacks official backing from Adobe, relying solely on volunteer efforts for updates and support, which can lead to delays or gaps in critical patches.
Based on the deprecated Magento 1.x codebase, so it doesn't introduce new core ecommerce features or modern development practices found in Magento 2 or alternatives.
While backwards compatible, some third-party extensions or themes may not be tested on OpenMage, potentially causing integration issues or unsupported dependencies.
Open Source Alternative To
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