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Developer	GitLab Inc.
Release	2011 (2011)

Stable release	18.11^[1] / 16 April 2026 (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

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.^[5]

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

↑ "GitLab 18.11 release notes". April 16, 2026. Retrieved April 18, 2026.
↑ "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.
1 2 "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
↑ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
↑ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
↑ 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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