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OpenCATS
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OpenCATS
Free
Self-hosted; runtime and server setup required
Read 12 Oct 2026 · opencats.org
On the record
- Candidate records
- It manages candidate records, resumes, notes, status history, and recruiting activity.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yesopencats.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Database limit
- MariaDB is the recommended and tested database family; MySQL is not the documented database target.documentation.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Data control
- Teams can host OpenCATS themselves, inspect its code, and keep recruiting data under their own operational policies.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- Prepared full release archives are published through GitHub Releases in .tar.gz and .zip formats.github.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Public documentation covers installation, runtime requirements, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance tasks.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yesopencats.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yesopencats.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Optional utilities
- Antiword, pdftotext, html2text, and unrtf can improve resume and document text extraction and search, but are not required for installation.documentation.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- OpenCATS is a free, community-maintained applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Recruiting workflows
- It supports jobs, companies, contacts, submissions, and follow-up activity for staffing agencies and internal recruiting teams.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Release
- The maker site identifies OpenCATS v0.11.1 as the latest release.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Release security work
- Version 0.11.1 is described as a security and maintenance release with additional security hardening.github.com · read 12 Oct 2026
- Resume parsing
- Noopencats.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Runtime
- The documented runtime requires PHP 8.4.1 or later within PHP 8, MariaDB, a web server, and required PHP extensions.documentation.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The maker advises monitoring GitHub Security Advisories and applying security releases promptly to production instances.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker points users to the OpenCATS subreddit for peer-to-peer support and troubleshooting discussions.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Tested baseline
- Project CI tests PHP 8.4.1 and PHP 8.5 on Linux/Unix with MariaDB 10.7 for Docker-backed integration and Behat testing.documentation.opencats.org · read 12 Oct 2026
