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Adopted Projects

A register of end-of-life or abandoned tools we have taken over or rebuilt so their users are not left behind.

The register

Nothing has been adopted yet, and the register is empty. The weekly radar that looks for candidates starts the week of 27 Oct 2026.

The radar looks at archived repositories with recent issues, shutdown announcements, and advisories on tools that are no longer supported. The first candidates will appear here with their original licence, what was fixed, and where users should move.

Status labels

Evaluating
The radar listed it and we are checking it against the five criteria.
Adopted
We maintain a fork of the original code.
Rebuilt
We wrote a clean-room replacement.
Declined
We looked and it failed a criterion. The reason is recorded.

What makes a candidate

A tool is listed for evaluation only when all five of these hold.

  1. It is dead or end-of-life: no releases, an archived repository, or a shutdown announcement.
  2. Its users are still active: recent issues, reviews or forum threads.
  3. No maintained free replacement exists.
  4. The licence allows a fork, or a clean-room rebuild is practical.
  5. A first version fits in two weeks.

What adoption means

What we commit to

  • We maintain it: fixes, security patches and answers to issues.
  • Every release gets a changelog on the research feed under the kind Tools.
  • The original licence stays, and the original authors are credited in the repository and on its page.
  • Like every tool we publish, it states the network connections it makes.

What it does not mean

  • We do not relicense the code.
  • We do not add data collection.
  • We do not bolt a paid tier onto a tool people already depend on.

Nominate a project

If you rely on a tool that has been abandoned, write to info@atarussecurity.com. Send the project URL and say why its users are stuck: what they use it for and what they tried instead. We read every nomination and check it against the five criteria above. Nominating a project does not commit us to adopting it, and we record the reason when we decline.

The tools we already maintain are on the open source page.