Governed by the non-profit Codeberg e.V. with over 150 contributors and quarterly major releases reaching v16.0 in July 2026, Forgejo delivers a complete code collaboration platform in a single Go binary that runs comfortably on 512 MB of RAM — providing full Git hosting with SSH and HTTPS, pull requests with inline code review, issue tracking with labels and milestones, kanban project boards, wikis, and an integrated package registry supporting Docker, npm, PyPI, Maven, NuGet, and Cargo. Forgejo Actions provides GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD with reusable workflows, OpenID Connect for secure third-party access, ephemeral runners for autoscaling, and dynamic matrix support for complex build pipelines. The platform implements ActivityPub-based forge federation allowing issues, pull requests, and stars to work across independent instances — enabling a decentralized development ecosystem similar to how Mastodon federates social networks. Organizations and team permissions provide fine-grained access control, while LDAP, OAuth2, and OpenID authentication integrate with existing identity infrastructure. Code search indexes repositories for fast discovery, LFS handles large files efficiently, and mirror synchronization imports repositories from GitHub, GitLab, and other forges. Deploy via a single static binary, Docker container, or official Helm charts with SQLite for small instances or PostgreSQL and MySQL for production workloads. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPLv3+ licensed.

Point the gh CLI at your private Githome server and it works identically to github.com, because every REST v3 and GraphQL v4 endpoint returns byte-for-byte compatible JSON shapes, headers, Link pagination, and ETag caching. A single compiled Go binary serves the REST API under /api/v3, GraphQL under /api/graphql, git smart-HTTP transport, and a server-rendered web UI implementing the GitHub Primer design system with full functionality when JavaScript is disabled. The web interface provides repository browsing with Markdown rendering and syntax highlighting, issue tracking, pull requests with unified diffs and inline code review threads, full-text search, user profiles, and a notifications inbox. Authentication supports personal access tokens with prefix-based identification, OAuth device and web flows, and scoped permissions on every response header with only token hashes stored. The pull request system implements the complete lifecycle including async mergeable state computation, squash, merge, and rebase strategies, commit statuses, check runs, and statusCheckRollup fields. Webhooks deliver events with X-Hub-Signature-256 verification, SSRF protection, and at-least-once retry semantics. Storage supports SQLite for single-node deployments or PostgreSQL for production configurations. Performance optimizations include batch loaders replacing N+1 queries, keyset pagination, FTS-backed search, and GraphQL dataloaders. Docker deployment pulls the official multi-arch container image from GitHub Container Registry. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.