# Is Duplicati kind of abandoned?

**URL:** <https://forum.duplicati.com/t/is-duplicati-kind-of-abandoned/15791>\
**Category:** Releases\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/is-duplicati-kind-of-abandoned/15791 "2023-02-28T21:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenkendk](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/kenkendk/32/5305_2.png) [@kenkendk](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/kenkendk)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/is-duplicati-kind-of-abandoned/15791/30 "2024-04-12T06:27:25Z")

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> [@abacus](#):
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> So the question is: will Duplicati be maintained any further?

The short answer to that is **Yes!**

Because [Duplicati is now a company](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/introducing-duplicati-inc/17491) I am able to spend time developing features and maintain the project.

I have started the laborious task of [upgrading to .Net8](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/battle-plan-for-migrating-to-net8/17482) as the current tools are becoming stale.

I have many plans for things to come, and some of those will be revealed soon 😉.  
I can reveal that we will hire people to work on the project, and the details will follow.

> [@abacus](#):
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> Yes. Duplicati is in more or less abandoned, because the main contributor @kenkendk has retired from working on the project and due to the fact that some major tasks necessary to create new builds have been tailored to be done only by him

Setting up a build environment is a real pain as it requires keys from multiple companies (some non-free), tools, paths, etc, but it is and always has been possible to run the builds from any machine.

I have been [working on a new way of building the releases](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/pull/5135), so it is (hopefully) less obscure how to set up a machine. The build chain tool also supports building packages without any keys at all, and with some flexibility in not having various tools (i.e. a Windows zip file requires just dotnet SDK, a Debian package also requires Docker).

The [first builds based on .Net8 and the new build program can be downloaded and tested](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/early-preview-of-net8-packages-codename-debug-2-0-8-104/17765). There are still quirks, but I am addressing those.

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