Forgejo is two years old and has been a lively human adventure, a story worth telling. A hackathon organized by Codeberg generated thousands of new translations. Forgejo v9.0.0 was published, as well as a security patch release which was backported to Forgejo v7, the six month old Long Term Support version. A kubernetes cluster was created to replace the current infrastructure, running Forgejo from the Helm Chart.
Read more →Forgejo v9.0 release candidates are available for testing to prepare for the release scheduled 16 October 2024. The contributor and testing documentation were improved with the goal of encouraging more diverse participation. The infrastructure dedicated to Forgejo development suffered a downtime because of excessive crawling and mitigation measures were implemented.
Read more →Forgejo changed its license from MIT to GNU GPL v3+, it is now copyleft, just like Git. A pull request for federated user activity following using ActivityPub saw significant progress. Space usage quotas for users and organizations was implemented. The Forgejo security policy was published.
Read more →In June 2023, Forgejo agreed to allow copyleft code to be merged in the codebase. A year later, in August 2024, the first pull requests to take advantage of this opportunity were merged. Forgejo versions starting from v9.0 are now released under a copyleft license and earlier Forgejo versions, including v8.0 and v7.0 patch releases remain under the MIT license.
Read more →A non-free JavaScript library was found in the project's dependency structure, and the entire component that relied on it was re-implemented. Forgejo v8.0 is available with new features, a new approach to UI and UX, careful upgrade of dependencies to improve stability and security. Foundation parts for ActivityPub based federation and data portability were merged in.
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