GitLab

GitLab
DeveloperGitLab Inc.
Release2011; 15 years ago (2011)
Stable release
18.11 Edit this on Wikidata / 16 April 2026; 6 months ago (16 April 2026)
Written inRuby, Go and JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Platformx86-64, aarch64
Available inEnglish
Type
LicenseCommunity Edition: MIT License and other software licenses
Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software
Websiteabout.gitlab.com Edit this on Wikidata
Repository

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.

History

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

Components

GitLab consists of several components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:

References

  1. ↑ "GitLab 18.11 release notes". April 16, 2026. Retrieved April 18, 2026.
  2. ↑ "GitLab 14 Delivers Modern DevOps in One Platform". DevPro Journal. July 12, 2021. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  4. ↑ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  5. ↑ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  6. ↑ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.