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{{Short description|Free and open-source software forge}}
{{Primary sources|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox software
| qid = Q115962387
| logo = Forgejo-wordmark.svg
| logo size = 250px
| logo caption = 
| screenshot = Forgejo screenshot dark mode.png
| caption = A screenshot of a Forgejo repository
| released = {{#statements:inception|from=Q115962387}}
| latest_release_version = {{multiple releases
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| programming language = [[Go (programming language)|Go]], [[JavaScript]]
| operating system = [[Cross-platform software|Cross-platform]]
| platform = [[x86-64]], [[ARM architecture family|ARM]]
| language = Multi-lingual<ref>{{cite web |url=https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/forgejo/forgejo/ |title=Codeberg Translate |website=Codeberg}}</ref>
| genre = Collaborative [[software development]] ([[Forge (software)|forge]])
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'''Forgejo'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|f|ɔɹ|ˈ|dʒ|eɪ|j|oʊ}}; from [[Esperanto]] {{lang|eo|forĝejo}}, {{IPA|eo|forˈd͡ʒejo|pron}}, meaning "forge".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forgejo.org/faq/|title=Forgejo FAQ &#124; Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.|website=forgejo.org}}</ref>}} is a [[Cross-platform software|cross-platform]], [[Open-source software|open-source]] [[web server]] for hosting a [[Forge (software)|software development forge]].  Forgejo uses the [[Git]] [[Version control|version control system]] for [[source code]] revisioning and also allows developers to use features like [[bug tracking]], [[code review]], [[continuous integration]], [[kanban board]]s, [[issue tracking system]] tickets, and [[wiki]]s with their projects.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Git trifft Mikrocontroller, Dein umfassender Guide zur Versionierung in Arduino-Projekten inkl. GitHub Beispiele |date=October 26, 2023 |isbn=9783757972936 |pages=9.1 |language=de |last1=Edenhauser |first1=Markus |publisher=Selbstverlag }}</ref> The package is designed to be [[Self-hosting (web services)|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.{{Citation needed|date=January 2026}} Forgejo can be hosted on most platforms that support the [[Go (programming language)|Go]] runtime, including [[macOS]], except [[Microsoft Windows]] which is no longer supported since 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forgejo FAQ {{!}} Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge. |url=https://forgejo.org/faq/#why-are-there-no-mentions-of-windows-binaries |access-date=2026-02-24 |website=forgejo.org |language=en}}</ref> Packages are provided for various [[Linux]] [[Linux distribution|distributions]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Packaging |url=https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#packaging |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Delightful Forgejo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Versions for forgejo |url=https://repology.org/project/forgejo/versions |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Repology}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist |url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250906132513/https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ |archive-date=2025-09-06 |access-date=2025-09-06 |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

== History ==
Forgejo was created in December 2022<ref name="hello-forgejo">{{Cite web |date=2022-12-15 |title=Beyond Coding. We forge. |url=https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/ |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Forgejo Blog}}</ref> as a [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of [[Gitea]]. The fork occurred after a for-profit [[Limited company|limited corporation]] run 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forgejo FAQ {{!}} Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge. |url=https://forgejo.org/faq/#why-was-forgejo-created |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=forgejo.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="christiantietze">{{Cite web |last=Tietze |first=Christian |date=November 25, 2022 |title=Gitea Ltd. Takes Over Gitea Open Source Project, Community Pushes Back |url=https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/11/gitea-ltd-takes-over-open-source-community-pushes-back/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212021254/https://christiantietze.de/posts/2022/11/gitea-ltd-takes-over-open-source-community-pushes-back/ |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |access-date=February 12, 2023 |website=christiantietze.de}}</ref>

After it became public, Gitea contributors signed an open letter asking for the project's trademarks and domains to be placed under community management.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-28 |title=Open Letter to Gitea |url=https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031061345/https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ |archive-date=2022-10-31 |access-date=2024-08-23}}</ref> After that was rejected, the project was forked.<ref name="christiantietze" /> [[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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2022 |title=Codeberg launches Forgejo |url=https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208001911/https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |access-date=February 8, 2023 |website=[[Codeberg|Codeberg.org]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts {{!}} TechTarget |url=https://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/news/366552837/New-Git-repository-faces-corporate-open-source-doubts |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Software Quality |language=en}}</ref> Codeberg e.V., a registered nonprofit association, manages Forgejo's domain names and trademarks on behalf of the project.<ref name="hello-forgejo" /> Codeberg's public instance was migrated from Gitea to Forgejo at the end of April 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Otto (fnetX) |date=May 15, 2023 |title=Letter from Codeberg: May 2023 |url=https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-may-2023.html |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=Codeberg News}}</ref>

While initially being synchronized with the Gitea codebase, Forgejo eventually abandoned the practice and split from Gitea following version 1.21 in February 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Brockmeier |first1=Joe |title=Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963095/85db4f864c060d22/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[LWN.net]] |date=23 February 2024 }}</ref> In August 2024, Forgejo moved from the [[MIT License|MIT license]] to the copyleft [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-22 |title=Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git |url=https://forgejo.org/2024-08-gpl/ |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Forgejo Blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Alden |first1=Daroc |title=Forgejo changes license to GPLv3+ [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/986998/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=lwn.net |date=23 August 2024 }}</ref> While the original code is still MIT-licensed, the overall project is licensed under the GPL.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Earl |date=2023-04-18 |title=[Mission] on Forgejo accepting copyleft contributions |url=https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/pulls/20 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=forgejo/governance – Codeberg.org}}</ref> 

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.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Higher Education and Research Forges in France - Definition, uses, limitations encountered and needs analysis |url=https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04208924 |publisher=Comité pour la science ouverte |date=2023-11-15 |degree=report |language=en |first=Daniel Le |last=Berre}}</ref> The project has received funding from the [[NLnet Foundation|NLnet]] organization for both the protocol extension needed to accommodate the feature subset, dubbed as "ForgeFed", and its implementation into Forgejo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NLnet; ForgeFed |url=https://nlnet.nl/project/ForgeFed/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=nlnet.nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=NLnet; Federated software forges with Forgejo |url=https://nlnet.nl/project/Federated-Forgejo/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=nlnet.nl}}</ref> As of 2025, the ability to [[Federation (information technology)|federate]] "stars" on repositories across Forgejo installations has been built,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Show and Tell: Federation at Forgejo |url=https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5610-show-and-tell-federation-at-forgejo/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=fosdem.org |language=en}}</ref> while other forge packages such as [[GitLab]] have also begun work on implementing support for ForgeFed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Support ActivityPub for GitLab (&11247) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab |url=https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247 |access-date=2024-07-16 |website=GitLab |language=en}}</ref>

=== Release history ===
The first stable version, 1.18, was released in December 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=December 29, 2022 |title=Forgejo v1.18 stable is released |url=https://forgejo.org/2022-12-29-release-v1-18-0 |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=Forgejo}}</ref> Version 1.19 followed in March 2023, introducing a built-in continuous integration system called Actions — modelled on [[GitHub Actions]] — and a package registry with support for [[Docker (software)|Docker]] and [[Cargo (software)|Cargo]].<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=February 27, 2023 |title=Forgejo gets an integrated CI named Actions |url=https://forgejo.org/2023-02-27-forgejo-actions |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=Forgejo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=March 21, 2023 |title=Forgejo v1.19 is available |url=https://forgejo.org/2023-03-release-v1 |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=Forgejo}}</ref>

Version 1.20, whose first release candidate appeared in June 2023, added moderation options including the ability to block other users, extended package registry support (Debian, Go, Swift), and accessibility improvements.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=June 10, 2023 |title=Forgejo release notes – v1.20.0-0-rc |url=https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/RELEASE-NOTES.md#1-20-0-0-rc0 |access-date=June 10, 2023 |website=Codeberg}}</ref> Version 1.21, released in November 2023, expanded on user moderation, added administrator email notifications for new account registrations, further extended the Actions CI/CD system, and improved detection of programming languages in repositories.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=November 26, 2023 |title=Forgejo v1.21 is available |url=https://forgejo.org/2023-11-release-v1211-0/ |access-date=July 4, 2024 |website=Forgejo}}</ref>

Following the transition to a hard fork, Forgejo adopted [[Semantic Versioning]] and released version 7.0 on April 23, 2024. This was the first version with [[long-term support]] (LTS), receiving critical bug and security fixes until July 2025. It also added support for four new interface languages (Bulgarian, Esperanto, Filipino, and Slovenian), a code search feature, and activity graphs.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=April 23, 2024 |title=Forgejo v7.0 is available |url=https://forgejo.org/2024-04-release-v7-0/ |access-date=July 4, 2024 |website=Forgejo}}</ref> Version 8.0 followed on July 30, 2024, with a security patch release (8.0.1) on August 9, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=July 30, 2024 |title=Forgejo v8.0 is available |url=https://forgejo.org/2024-07-release-v8-0/ |access-date=August 24, 2024 |website=Forgejo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Forgejo authors |date=August 9, 2024 |title=Forgejo Security Release v8.0.1 & v7.0.7 |url=https://forgejo.org/2024-08-release-v801/ |access-date=August 24, 2024 |website=Forgejo}}</ref>

== Infrastructure ==
Forgejo can be installed directly on Linux systems; due to its comparatively low resource requirements it can also run on embedded hardware such as a [[Raspberry Pi]] or a [[network-attached storage]] device. For other operating systems, including [[macOS]], running Forgejo in [[Docker (software)|Docker]] is recommended.

A free public instance operated by Codeberg e.V. is available for open-source projects. For [[Android (operating system)|Android]], the free app ''GitNex'' provides repository management for Forgejo instances. A command-line tool called ''tea'' is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

== Users ==
Codeberg is the largest server running Forgejo and is one of the project's primary contributors, hosting more than 300,000 repositories as of November 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards! — Codeberg News|url=https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html|website=blog.codeberg.org|access-date=2025-11-27}}</ref> 

The [[Fedora Linux]] project is replacing their forge Pagure with Forgejo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=amoloney |date=2024-12-24 |title=Fedora Chooses Forgejo! |url=https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-chooses-forgejo/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Fedora Community Blog |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Brockmeier |first1=Joe |title=Fedora moves towards Forgejo (Fedora Magazine) |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/1000751/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=lwn.net |date=4 December 2024 }}</ref> Following the use of Copilot by GitHub, some people{{Who|date=November 2026}} have moved to Codeberg or self-hosting Forgejo.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |date=2025-09-05 |title=Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features |url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ |access-date=2025-09-07 |work=[[The Register]]}}</ref>

== See also ==
*{{Annotated link|Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities}}
*{{Annotated link|Free software movement}}
*{{Annotated link|Self-hosting (web services)|Self-hosting}}

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