Codeberg
A community-run software development website centered on codeberg.org, offering Git hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, wikis, pages, and related tools for free and open-source projects.
What Codeberg is
Codeberg official site is a software development website for hosting Git repositories and coordinating open-source projects. It provides a web interface for repositories, issues, pull requests, releases, wikis, organizations, and project pages, with an emphasis on free software, privacy, and community ownership.
Who uses Codeberg
Codeberg is used by free-software maintainers, small project teams, documentation writers, translators, and contributors who want a public software forge outside large commercial platforms. Some users treat it as their main development home, while others mirror projects there to make source code easier to find, preserve, or contribute to.
How the website works
At the project level, Codeberg feels familiar to people who have used modern code-hosting websites: repositories have file browsers, branches, commits, issue trackers, pull requests, releases, and Markdown documentation. The surrounding services extend that core with Codeberg Pages for static websites, hosted collaboration tools, and integrations used by open-source maintainers.
Relationship to Forgejo
Codeberg is powered by Forgejo, the self-hostable free software forge that grew from the Gitea ecosystem. Forgejo is the software; Codeberg is a hosted public instance and community around that software. This distinction matters because projects can use Codeberg directly or run their own Forgejo instance if they need a different governance, hosting, or operations model.
Community and governance
The website is operated by Codeberg e.V., a German non-profit association. Codeberg describes itself as community-driven rather than corporate-owned, with members able to support and participate in the association. That governance model is part of its identity, not just a background detail.
Strengths and limits
Codeberg's strengths are its open-source focus, non-commercial posture, and lower-friction tools for public collaboration. Its limits come from the same tradeoff: it is smaller than GitHub or GitLab.com, so some integrations, enterprise workflows, private-repository expectations, and network effects may be weaker or different.
Why it matters
Software forges are infrastructure for public technical work. Codeberg matters because it gives open-source communities another place to host code and coordinate development, especially when a project wants its tools, governance, and values to line up with free-software principles.
WHOIS domain data
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- Domain
- codeberg.org
- IP address
- 217.197.84.140
- Registrar
- NameSilo, LLC
- WHOIS server
- whois.namesilo.com
- Referral URL
- http://www.namesilo.com
- Created
- July 5, 2018
- Updated
- May 10, 2026
- Expires
- July 5, 2028
- Nameservers
- ns1.dnsowl.com (162.159.26.136); ns2.dnsowl.com (162.159.26.49); ns3.dnsowl.com (162.159.26.234)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited; client transfer prohibited
- Contact privacy
- Registrant, admin, and technical contact details use PrivacyGuardian.org privacy contact data.