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 <!-- releaseTask -->
-The following table summarizes different GitHub metrics to give you an idea of each project's popularity and activity levels. This data was collected in December 2025.
+The following table summarizes different GitHub metrics to give you an idea of each project's popularity and activity levels. This data was collected in May 2026.
 
 | Provider | Project | Stars | Forks | Contributors |
 | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
-| Canal | https://github.com/projectcalico/canal | 722 | 97 | 20 |
-| Flannel | https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel | 9.4k | 2.9k | 248 |
+| Canal | https://github.com/projectcalico/canal | 723 | 97 | 20 |
+| Flannel | https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel | 9.5k | 2.9k | 249 |
 | Calico | https://github.com/projectcalico/calico | 7.2k | 1.6k | 412 |
 | Weave | https://github.com/weaveworks/weave | 6.6k | 675 | 82 |
-| Cilium | https://github.com/cilium/cilium | 24.2k | 3.7k | 1067 |
+| Cilium | https://github.com/cilium/cilium | 24.4k | 3.8k | 1085 |