Read: https://hacdias.com/2026/07/28/filebrowser/
The project is prepared to be archived. No more issues or pull requests can be opened until the archival date. You can still report security vulnerabilities, which will be made public on the day of archival, or before. However, they will not be addressed.
The project is delivered as-is. If you want to keep using it, treat it as any other piece of deprecated software: use at your own risk, don’t expose it to the public Internet, and be mindful of the known security vulnerabilities listed on the README and on the advisories page.
I’d rather have you, or any user, using a different alternative. I can’t recommend any specific alternative, as I haven’t compared them side-by-side, or even used them. What I can point you to is this post on r/selfhosted, where people have been sharing the projects they’ve been using for quite some time, or check Awesome Self-hosted. That’s where I’d start.
It seems urgent that we should find an alternative ASAP!
The reddit thread has some folks suggesting Filebrowser Quantum and Next Explorer (not a great name for us).
And maybe we can look at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#file-transfer---web-based-file-managers as suggested by the Filebrowser creator in the above thread.
Read: https://hacdias.com/2026/07/28/filebrowser/
It seems urgent that we should find an alternative ASAP!
The reddit thread has some folks suggesting Filebrowser Quantum and Next Explorer (not a great name for us).
And maybe we can look at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#file-transfer---web-based-file-managers as suggested by the Filebrowser creator in the above thread.