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Trac

Integrated wiki and issue tracker for software projects

Helpdesk & Ticketing ★ 544 stars Medium setup BSD-3-Clause

Trac is a minimalistic web-based software project management and bug tracking system. It integrates a wiki, an issue tracker, and version control browsing.

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Key features

  • Integrated wiki and tickets
  • Version control browser
  • Roadmap and milestones
  • Plugin ecosystem

Strengths

  • Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
  • Written in Python
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is Trac secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Trac's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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