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    yaml/go-yaml

    The YAML org maintained fork of https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml

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    Go
    Apache-2.0
    544 stars
    87 forks
    544 GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 29, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 77 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 49% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Enables Go programs to encode and decode YAML data efficiently and reliably.
    • Maintains compatibility with YAML 1.2 while preserving legacy YAML 1.1 behaviors for smooth migration.
    • Use for parsing and generating configuration files in Go applications requiring YAML support.
    • Use for integrating YAML data serialization and deserialization in cloud-native or DevOps tooling.
    • Use for upgrading or maintaining Go projects that depend on a stable, actively maintained YAML library.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    YAML Support for the Go Language

    The yaml package enables Go programs to comfortably encode and decode YAML values.

    It was originally developed within Canonical as part of the juju project, and is based on a pure Go port of the well-known libyaml C library to parse and generate YAML data quickly and reliably.

    This project started as a fork of the extremely popular go-yaml project, and is being maintained by the official YAML organization.

    The YAML team took over ongoing maintenance and development of the project after discussion with go-yaml's author, @niemeyer, following his decision to label the project repository as "unmaintained" in April 2025.

    We have put together a team of dedicated maintainers including representatives of go-yaml's most important downstream projects.

    We will strive to earn the trust of the various go-yaml forks to switch back to this repository as their upstream.

    Please contact us if you would like to contribute or be involved.

    Excerpt from the yaml/go-yaml README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    87+30

    Open issues

    82-24

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