# Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub

DevFeed: [Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/thank-you-for-40-000-stars-on-github-4783.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://duckdb.org/2026/08/05/github-40k-stars.html>)

Author: The DuckDB team

Published: 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [DuckDB](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/duckdb.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Remote Procedure Call (RPC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rpc.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Internet of things](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iot.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>)

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## AI overview

DuckDB celebrates reaching 40,000 GitHub stars by reviewing recent ecosystem growth, including DuckDB 1.4.0 and 1.5.0, the DuckLake 1.0 standard, the Quack remote protocol, community metrics, meetups, developer events, and community projects involving search, embeddings, IoT, and streaming analytics.

## Source excerpt

DuckDB just reached 40 000 stars on GitHub! Here's what happened since the last 10 000-star milestone.