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GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

by randx on 11/23/13, 7:35 PM with 53 comments

• by _delirium on 11/23/13, 9:15 PM

  A few earlier discussions, for those looking for backstory:

  3.0 release (Oct. 2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687455

  4.0 release (Dec. 2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4959417

  5.0 release (Mar. 2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422950

  6.0 release (Aug. 2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270446

• by picomancer on 11/23/13, 10:23 PM

  For those who aren't familiar, Gitlab is essentially an open-source clone of Github.

  For those who already use it, this is a good time to upgrade, because multiple security vulnerabilities were recently fixed [1]. (You can upgrade to a patch version within the same major/minor release, e.g. 6.2.3 to 6.2.4, but it's not too much more effort to just upgrade to the latest 6.3 release).

  [1] http://blog.gitlab.org/multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-...

• by ridruejo on 11/23/13, 10:01 PM

  If you want to give it a try in your computer or in the cloud you can use one of the images from bitnami. We already have updated them to gitlab 6.3

  http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

• by pgambling on 11/23/13, 10:33 PM

  I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? (https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview)

• by Touche on 11/24/13, 1:39 AM

  2 biggest downsides to GitLab:

  1) It's a resource hog. Big time.

  2) It's incredibly hard to set up. The installation instructions and the development instructions are essentially the same. Key point, an end user should never have to `bundle install`, ever.

• by sandGorgon on 11/24/13, 4:59 AM

  there is also http://gitblit.com - only dependency is java.

  looks like its quite feature rich - federation, verdict integration, plugins, active directory integration, etc and doesn't look like a github clone.

• by davexunit on 11/24/13, 3:12 AM

  GitLab is cool, but Gitorious is where it's at. 3.0 just came out bringing many improvements and it's AGPL licensed.

• by filipedeschamps on 11/24/13, 2:58 AM

  How does GitLab compares to Gerrit? At work we are massively using Gerrit and loving it, but as I can see, GitLab has also a neat CI integration.

• by srean on 11/25/13, 1:06 AM

  Not meaning to hijack, but would love to hear about an equivalent for mercurial that runs on linux.

• by antman on 11/24/13, 2:35 AM

  If you prefer python, Rhodecode is free for up to 20 users https://rhodecode.com/features

• by Siecje on 11/23/13, 10:45 PM

  Does it have public repos?