Forgejo

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Forgejo
Initial release15 December 2022
Stable release
1313.0.3[1] / 21 November 2025; 33 days ago (21 November 2025)
11 LTS11.0.8[2] / 21 November 2025; 33 days ago (21 November 2025)
Repository
Written inGo, JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Platformx86-64, ARM
Available inMulti-lingual[3]
TypeCollaborative software development (forge)
LicenseGNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Websiteforgejo.org Edit this on Wikidata

Forgejo (Esperanto pronunciation: [forˈd͡ʒe.jo])[4] is software for hosting a forge using the Git version control system to aid with software development. The package allows developers to use collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, issue tracking system tickets, and wikis with their projects.[5] The package is designed to be self-hosted by developers, and a public instance is provided to try out the software, however forges that are hosted by organizations such as Codeberg are more commonly used. Forgejo can be hosted on all platforms that support the Go runtime, including macOS and Microsoft Windows, and packages are provided for various Linux distributions.[6][7][8]

History

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Forgejo was initially created in December 2022[9] as a fork of Gitea. The fork occurred after a for-profit limited corporation ran by the lead maintainer of the project, Lunny Xiao, silently transferred Gitea's trademarks and operations to the company and began to establish an open-core model.[10][11]

After it became public, Gitea contributors signed an open letter asking for the project's trademarks and domains to be placed under community management.[12] After that was rejected, the project was forked.[11] Codeberg, one of the major forges using Gitea at the time, migrated to Forgejo and has become the de jure lead maintainers of the project.[13][14]

While initially being synchronized with the Gitea codebase, Forgejo eventually abandoned the practice and split from Gitea following version 1.21 in February 2024,[15] In August 2024, Forgejo moved from the MIT license to the copyleft GNU General Public License.[16][17] While the original code is still MIT, the overall project is licensed under the GPL.[18]

One of the main goals for the future of Forgejo is their plan to implement interoperability between different installations. While repositories can be mirrored from any other Git forge, the project has begun work on implementing support for the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to collaborate with each other using Forgejo's features.[19] The project has received funding from the NLnet organization for both the protocol extension needed to accommodate the feature subset, dubbed as "ForgeFed", and its implementation into Forgejo.[20][21] As of 2025, the ability to federate "stars" on repositories across Forgejo installations has been built,[22] while other forge packages such as GitLab have also begun work on implementing support for ForgeFed.[23]

Users

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Codeberg is known as being the largest server running Forgejo and is one of the project's primary contributors, hosting more than 300,000 repositories as of November 2025.[24]

The Fedora Linux project is replacing their forge Pagure with Forgejo.[25][26] Following the use of Copilot by GitHub, some people have moved to Codeberg or self-hosting Forgejo.[27]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "v13.0.3 - forgejo/forgejo". Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Making sure you're not a bot!". Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  3. ^ "Codeberg Translate". Codeberg.
  4. ^ "Forgejo FAQ | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge". forgejo.org.
  5. ^ Edenhauser, Markus (October 26, 2023). Git trifft Mikrocontroller, Dein umfassender Guide zur Versionierung in Arduino-Projekten inkl. GitHub Beispiele (in German). Selbstverlag. p. 9.1. ISBN 9783757972936.
  6. ^ "Packaging". Delightful Forgejo. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  7. ^ "Versions for forgejo". Repology. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  8. ^ "GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist". Archived from the original on 2025-09-06. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  9. ^ "Beyond Coding. We forge". Forgejo Blog. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  10. ^ "Forgejo FAQ | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge". forgejo.org. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  11. ^ a b Tietze, Christian (November 25, 2022). "Gitea Ltd. Takes Over Gitea Open Source Project, Community Pushes Back". christiantietze.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2023. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  12. ^ "Open Letter to Gitea". 2022-10-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-31. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  13. ^ "Codeberg launches Forgejo". Codeberg.org. December 15, 2022. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
  14. ^ "New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts | TechTarget". Software Quality. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  15. ^ Brockmeier, Joe (23 February 2024). "Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea [LWN.net]". LWN.net. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
  16. ^ "Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git". Forgejo Blog. 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  17. ^ Alden, Daroc (23 August 2024). "Forgejo changes license to GPLv3+ [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  18. ^ Warren, Earl (2023-04-18). "[Mission] on Forgejo accepting copyleft contributions". forgejo/governance – Codeberg.org. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  19. ^ Berre, Daniel Le (2023-11-15). Higher Education and Research Forges in France - Definition, uses, limitations encountered and needs analysis (report thesis). Comité pour la science ouverte.
  20. ^ "NLnet; ForgeFed". nlnet.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  21. ^ "NLnet; Federated software forges with Forgejo". nlnet.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  22. ^ "Show and Tell: Federation at Forgejo". fosdem.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  23. ^ "Support ActivityPub for GitLab (&11247) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab". GitLab. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  24. ^ "Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards! — Codeberg News". blog.codeberg.org. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  25. ^ amoloney (2024-12-24). "Fedora Chooses Forgejo!". Fedora Community Blog. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  26. ^ Brockmeier, Joe (4 December 2024). "Fedora moves towards Forgejo (Fedora Magazine) [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  27. ^ Claburn, Thomas (2025-09-05). "Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features". The Register. Retrieved 2025-09-07.
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