Install forgejo with Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream docs
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• forgejo

Project history

Forgejo launched publicly on December 15, 2022 after work by former Gitea maintainers and FOSS community members. The launch post describes it as a drop-in replacement for Gitea, started in reaction to governance changes around Gitea Ltd.

The project is hosted on Codeberg and its FAQ says Codeberg e.V. holds the Forgejo domains, provides resources, and cooperates closely with the project while Forgejo governance remains independent.

In February 2024, Forgejo announced the decision to become a hard fork, explaining that its governance, testing requirements, feature work, and goals had diverged from Gitea.

Adoption history

Forgejo adoption is strongly linked to self-hosting and Free Software infrastructure. The project homepage emphasizes easy installation, low maintenance, a familiar GitHub-like environment, and Codeberg as a prominent Forgejo user.

Forgejo's FAQ says most users are developers of free and open source software and points to a community-maintained list of public instances with open registration.

The project moved through compatibility-oriented 1.x releases, adopted semantic-versioned v7.0 as its first LTS release in April 2024, and later changed licensing so v9.0 and newer releases are GPL-3.0-or-later.

How it is used

Admins install Forgejo as a server application and manage it through app.ini. The official configuration cheat sheet says local changes belong in custom/conf/app.ini and packaged installations commonly use /etc/forgejo/app.ini.

Users interact with Forgejo through the web UI, Git over SSH or HTTP, issues, pull requests, releases, package registries, and optionally Forgejo Actions.

Why package nerds care

Forgejo is significant for package-history work because it is both a packaged server application and a fork that carries compatibility, migration, release policy, and licensing implications.

It is also part of the broader software-forge family that includes Gitea, Gogs, GitLab, SourceHut, and GitHub-like hosting workflows, while deliberately emphasizing community governance and Free Software infrastructure.

Timeline

• 2022: Forgejo launches publicly on December 15 as a community-driven Free Software project and Gitea-compatible soft fork.
• 2023: Forgejo celebrates its first year and publishes v1.21 as its fourth major release.
• 2024: Forgejo announces a hard-fork path in February.
• 2024: Forgejo v7.0 is released in April as the first LTS release and adopts semantic versioning.
• 2024: Forgejo v9.0 is released in October as the first copyleft release under GPL-3.0-or-later.
• 2025: Forgejo v11.0 is released in April as an LTS release.
• 2026: Forgejo v15.0 is released in April as an LTS release supported until July 15, 2027.

Related projects

• Forgejo is directly related to Gitea, from which it began as a soft fork, and to the earlier Gogs lineage through Gitea.
• Forgejo ecosystem projects include forgejo-runner, Forgejo Actions, Forgejo CLI, Forgejo Helm chart, and forge federation work based around ForgeFed and ActivityPub.

Sources

• https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/forgejo/forgejo
• https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/raw/branch/forgejo/README.md
• https://forgejo.org/
• https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/
• https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/
• https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/config-cheat-sheet/
• https://forgejo.org/faq/
• https://forgejo.org/releases/