GitLab Blog

Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

Here we would like to share our thoughts about these issues and what we’re planning to do to make things better with GitLab.

GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source

Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.

Gnome has moved to GitLab

We’re excited to welcome free software project GNOME to the GitLab community.

KDE is adopting GitLab

GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.

The KDE community is moving to GitLab

Open source software community giant KDE finished phase one of their migration to GitLab and has joined our GitLab open source program. Check out what's next for KDE and GitLab.

GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)

We think of ourselves as an open source company. But today paxcoder on Hacker News rightly remarked that calling it an open core company is more accurate.

Gitlab features that are moving to open source

We're open sourcing rich functionality across Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Protect.

Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.

Our Handbook is open source: here's why

In this post we’re explaining the reasons why having an open source Handbook works for us and how it can help you.

Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

GitLab today announced it was abandoning the industry-standard Contributor License Agreement in favor of a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and license

GitLab 13.0

GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.

Update on free software and telemetry

Telemetry services and GitLab. (GitLab CE will continue to be free software)

GitLab acquires Gitorious

GitLab and Gitorious announce today they are joining forces to strengthen the development of GitLab’s open source Git management application.

Gitlab 13.1

GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.

GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative

We're very excited to announce that we'll ship GitLab Mattermost, an open source, on-premises messaging app (like Slack) along with GitLab.

Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab

Start a GitLab free trial with 30 days on GitLab.com including Duo Enterprise or 30 days self-managed without Duo Enterprise. Empower your DevOps workflow!

We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions

We want to make it even easier for everyone to contribute, by doing away with our Contributor License Agreement in favor of the Developer's Certificate of Origin.

Bringing GitLab Pages to the Community Edition

Gitlab 13.10 Released

GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.

Gitlab default branch name changes to main

Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".