GitLab

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GitLab
Developer(s) GitLab Inc.
Initial release2011;14 years ago (2011)
Stable release
18.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 19 June 2025;47 days ago (19 June 2025)
Repository
Written in Ruby, Go and JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform x86-64, ARMhf
License Community Edition: MIT License and other software licenses [2]
Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software [2] [3]
Website about.gitlab.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.

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History

GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. Sytse Sijbrandij wanted to sell it as a service, which Zaporozhets agreed to. So the GitLab B.V. was founded in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Later Zaporozhets quit his job and started as CTO at GitLab. [4]

In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator and collected US$1.5 million of seed funding. [5] In September, Khosla Ventures invested an additional $4 million into the company.[ citation needed ]

In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected $20 million. [6]

GNOME has also been using GitLab since May 2018. KDE also completed its move to a self-hosted GitLab repository in mid-2020.

Components

GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets: [7]

References

  1. ↑ "GitLab 18.1 released with Maven virtual registry (beta) and Duo Code Review". June 19, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  4. ↑ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  5. ↑ "1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to accelerate growth and expand operations". GitLab Blog. GitLab. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  6. ↑ Weinberger, Matt (September 13, 2016). "Programming's best-kept secret just got $20 million to finally win the attention it deserves". Business Insider. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  7. ↑ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN   978-1-78953-406-1.
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