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How we deploy gitorious.org
We’ve just written an article on our documentation site describing the configuration of our new servers. You will find details about how we do deployment, our web server setup and how we manage...
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Gitorious 2.4.4 was just released
Since switching to the git-flow model for management of the branches in Gitorious mainline, new features don’t appear in master except in the form of new versions. This means that a few new versions...
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Gitorious 3.0 lands in the next branch
After a few months of hard work, we just merged the Rails 3 feature branch into the next branch in the Gitorious mainline repository. The major new feature in this branch is that Gitorious now uses...
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Gitorious 2.4.5 has been released
Gitorious 2.4.5 has just been released, and all Gitorious servers should be updated immediately. This release brings Gitorious up to Rails version 2.3.15, which solves a severe vulnerability in Ruby on...
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Gitorious v2.4.7 was just released
This morning we discovered a vulnerability in Gitorious which made us write this advisory on our mailing list and release version 2.4.7 of Gitorious. All users running their own Gitorious servers...
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Gitorious v2.4.8 is released
Three new vulnerabilities have been fixed for Ruby on Rails, on which Gitorious is built. Read the original announcements for further details. All users running their own Gitorious servers should...
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Improved and updated the Gitorious CE Installer (v2.4.9)
We’ve closed a number of recent security issues related to Ruby and Rails (which Gitorious depends on). The Community Edition Installer has lagged behind a bit but is, as of today, upgraded to install...
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Gitorious went down this morning
Our frontend web server went down at 6:24CET this morning, we will be updating this post as we bring the server back up. Here’s what we know right now: At 6:24 CET a Kernel oops occured. The alarms at...
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Gitorious v2.4.10 has been released
As a refreshing change from the security-related versions of Gitorious over the last weeks, we’re glad to announce that version 2.4.10 of Gitorious was just released. This release contains fixes...
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Gitorious v2.4.12 is released (security update)
Three new vulnerabilities have been fixed for Ruby on Rails, on which Gitorious is built. Read the original Ruby on Rails sec-list announcements for further details. The steps for upgrading are, as...
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An update about Gitorious v3.0
When we merged the Rails 3 branch into next back in January it was our intention that this would become Gitorious 3.0, with few user-visible features. Our plan was to ship 3.1 shortly after, including...
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Gitorious is featured on the GitMinutes podcast
GitMinutes is a fairly new podcast about Git, with weekly episodes featuring interviews with people doing all kinds of things with Git. This podcast is a great way to keep track of what’s happening in...
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Maintenance May 21st
The server center where the gitorious.org servers are located is being reorganized. From 1AM CET, Tuesday May 21st, all gitorious.org services will be down for approximately 2 hours while the servers...
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Gitorious will be upgraded on Monday [completed]
The time has finally come to deploy Gitorious 3.0 to the gitorious.org servers. We are planning to do the upgrade the coming Monday August 26th, starting at 10:00 AM CET. We expect a smooth upgrade...
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Powow AS acquires Gitorious AS
With Gitorious 3 just about to be released, we’ve got some more news that we’re really excited about. The current Gitorious team has been working full time on Gitorious since January 2011, and over the...
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Post mortem on yesterday’s downtime
Gitorious 3 has been in the next branch of Gitorious’ mainline repository since last autumn. We started out building a new code browser for Gitorious which would perform better than our previous...
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Future of the “Inbox” feature
The “Inbox” feature was added to Gitorious about 4 years ago and it was meant to give our users an easy way of communication. While we know it is a useful feature for many of you, we are also aware...
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Announcing Gitorious 3.1
We’re happy to announce Gitorious 3.1 – a minor upgrade bringing several new features, many improvements and lots of bugfixes. Detailed list of the changes can be found in our CHANGELOG, the highlights...
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Golang patterns for serving on-demand, generated content
We’re using Go for some parts of the Gitorious project and one of the recently open sourced sub-projects written in Go is git-archive-daemon. It’s a scalable, high-performance HTTP API for serving...
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Security vulnerability in bash
Yesterday it was announced that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Bash. By exploiting the vulnerability a user can execute arbitrary commands on the server. While these commands may...
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