GitLab

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GitLab
Developer GitLab Inc.
Initial release2011;15 years ago (2011)
Stable release
18.7 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 18 December 2025;31 days ago (18 December 2025)
Repository
Written in Ruby, Go and JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform x86-64, aarch64
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 Dmytro Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. [4]

Components

GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets: [5]

References

  1. "GitLab 18.7 released with improved GitLab Duo analytics dashboard and secret validity checks". December 18, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 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. Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN   978-1-78953-406-1.