GitLab

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as either a free software "Community" edition or a proprietary software "Enterprise" edition.

Release2011; 15 years ago

18.11^[1]

/ 16 April 2026; 4 months ago

Written inRuby, Go and JavaScript

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GitLab
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Developer	GitLab Inc.
Release	2011; 15 years ago (2011)

Stable release	18.11^[1] / 16 April 2026; 4 months ago (16 April 2026)

Written in	Ruby, Go and JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	x86-64, aarch64
Available in	English
Type	DevOps platform^[2]
License	Community Edition: MIT License and other software licenses^[3] Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software^[3]^[4]
Website	about.gitlab.com
Repository	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

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History

GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmytro Zaporozhets. It was a side project, written in Ruby on Rails.^[5]

GitLab consists of several components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:^[6]