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Git as in GitLab, is the most popular source control management tool.
When working in Git mode, Heptapod just provides the feature set of its foundation, GitLab Core.
Git based projects enable developers to work from a local copy and contribute Merge Requests from their own fork.
Heptapod adds Mercurial support to GitLab providing Mercurial users with a state of the art DevOps platform.
Heptapod is the leading platfom with first class support for Topics and Evolve as well as more traditional Mercurial workflows.
RHGitaly is our server side Rust implementation for high performance Mercurial support.
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12 Mar 2026
#heptapod 18.7.6 released, bumping #gitlab to the 18.7.6 regular patch/security version.
Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-18.7.6/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md
Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
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Dec
2025
With the imminent release of version 18.6, it is prime time for the fairly recent "managed sidecar" feature of HGitaly. We expect it to need a careful configuration, hence a bit of explanation is in order.
Read this to learn what the managed sidecar actually is, and how to …
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Nov
2025
Several long standing goals of the Heptapod project have been reached over the past 12 months, culminating with the Heptapod 18.5 release in early November. It looks like a good time for a retrospective, especially since such groundwork is often not visible to end users, except as performance improvements …
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May
2025
Starting on May 1st, 2025 our prebuilt Heptapod container images depend on a paid subscription. Send us an email to get your quotation.
We took the decision to require payment for our production-grade prebuilt container images at the turn of the year.
As we previously …