GitLab Cloud upgraded to 5.3

As you may have heard already, GitLab Cloud is now running the latest GitLab 5.3 release. You can now view a contributor graph per project, integrate with HipChat and Campfire, tweak permissions on your snippets, and get a Scrum-style overview of the issues attached to a milestone. We hope you like it!

Jacob Vosmaer joins GitLab.com as a senior service engineer

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As of this week Jacob Vosmaer joins GitLab.com as a senior service engineer. He will be providing support, installation/maintenance and development services for GitLab Cloud and our support and consultancy customers. In addition, he will support the GitLab.org open source community.

After obtaining a PhD in mathematics and briefly pursuing an academic career, Jacob became a professional software developer in 2012. Motivated by his own experiences switching careers he has been helping others do the same, for instance by coaching at RailsGirls events. Today he is excited to be working on open source software and helping organisations around the world collaborate better using Git and GitLab.

Pricing for GitLab.com announced, 10 users are free and no change until July

People wanted to know how much GitLab.com would cost them when we started charging. We are happy to announce we now have a good answer to that question.

Our pricing page contains the details. Highlights include:

  • Unlimited private repositories for everyone
  • If you have 10 users or less you pay nothing!
  • We won’t start charging until July

We hope you enjoy the freedom of open source and the affordable service we provide with GitLab.com. Part of our revenue goes to improving GitLab for everyone. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Dmitriy Zaporozhets joins GitLab.com as a co-founder

We have great news to share today. Dmitriy Zaporozhets, the lead author of GitLab, joins GitLab.com as a co-founder. He will work full time on Gitlab from now on.

In a year GitLab has grown from a small project to more than 10.000 installations. GitLab.com has grow in the last couple of months to over 1.000 users. With Dmitriy his help we look forward to a spectacular 2013.