Sharkey is generally no longer actively maintained. Much like IceShrimp, which shifted its focus from IceShrimp-js to IceShrimp.net, Sharkey is effectively in "maintenance mode only." This means it still receives critical security updates and required patches, but it generally no longer tracks upstream Misskey development.
Sharkey's latest release: 2025.4.7
Misskey's latest release: 2026.9.0
I had to laugh when, back on January 13, 2026, they titled a release "2025.4.5 — We'll catch up, we promise." The release right before that had been 6 months earlier. In all the time since, they've only pushed out 2 security updates (2025.4.6 and 2025.4.7). They are now well over a year behind Misskey's development.
If anyone has the time and skills, I hope someone builds a script to migrate Sharkey sites back to Misskey. Since Sharkey is a fork of Misskey (as was FireFish), it should be possible and is a smart precaution.
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@Tempest@burningboard.net you might wanna check out Catodon. We forked the latest Sharkey stable 6 months ago and initially removed some of the least used features. Since then we have added a lot of features (including Lemmy-compatible Forums), we have merged useful commits from current Sharkey develop, and have now started cherrypicking current Misskey commits. We won't become a Misskey soft fork (we have already diverged significantly), but development is active and we'll be keeping an eye on Misskey for anything interesting to cherrypick.