History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2009 – 2026
18 years
Peak Year
2026
5,746 commits
Releases
539
latest in 2026
2009BIRTHfirst commits

617 commits (1.2%) · +10,801 / −6,315 lines · 44 authors

Led by Max Howell (450 commits)

First commits: Max Howell, adamv, Eloy Duran, Ben Alpert, Andre Arko, Kieran Pilkington (+38 more)

Released: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5

2010QUIETwell below the usual pace

567 commits (1.1%) · +10,096 / −5,739 lines · 51 authors

Led by adamv (392 commits)

First commits: Mike McQuaid, Martin Kühl, lukas, Michael Dippery, Jamie Macey, Chris Hoffman (+40 more)

Released: 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8

2011QUIETwell below the usual pace

556 commits (1.0%) · +5,361 / −2,652 lines · 61 authors

Led by adamv (160 commits)

First commits: Jack Nagel, Charlie Sharpsteen, Misty De Meo, Mislav Marohnić, Second Planet, Oleg Oshmyan (+44 more)

Released: 0.8.1

2012STEADY

1,148 commits (2.1%) · +17,246 / −9,847 lines · 53 authors

Led by Jack Nagel (390 commits)

First commits: Samuel John, Xiyue Deng, Nicolas Despres, Christian Höltje, janv, hazz (+36 more)

Released: 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3

2013STEADY

1,889 commits (3.5%) · +24,695 / −16,549 lines · 85 authors

Led by Jack Nagel (1,051 commits)

First commits: Tobias Lidskog, Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz, Elliot Saba, Daniel Lee Harple, Peter Aronoff, Greg Sieranski (+62 more)

Released: 0.9.4, 0.9.5

2014STEADY

2,074 commits (3.9%) · +20,309 / −15,485 lines · 109 authors

Led by Jack Nagel (1,415 commits)

First commits: Tim D. Smith, Dominyk Tiller, Cheng XU, Geoffrey Oxberry, Baptiste Fontaine, aereal (+79 more)

2015STEADY

1,795 commits (3.4%) · +24,162 / −13,533 lines · 129 authors

Led by Cheng XU (561 commits)

First commits: Martin Afanasjew, Alex Dunn, Uladzislau Shablinski, Viktor Szakats, William Woodruff, Larry Gilbert (+99 more)

2016STEADY

3,061 commits (5.7%) · +71,003 / −40,318 lines · 144 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,153 commits)

First commits: Markus Reiter, Alyssa Ross, ilovezfs, Bob W. Hogg, Andrea Kao, Kaito Udagawa (+109 more)

Released: 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+13 more)

2017STEADY

3,056 commits (5.7%) · +50,784 / −40,371 lines · 127 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,113 commits)

First commits: Gautham Goli, mansimarkaur, L. E. Segovia, Ben Muschol, Eric Knibbe, Josh Soref (+85 more)

Released: 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10 (+22 more)

2018STEADY

2,809 commits (5.3%) · +102,470 / −32,215 lines · 102 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,088 commits)

First commits: Andrew R. McBurney, Caleb Xu, alexbostock, Chongyu Zhu, feu, Afnan Enayet (+56 more)

Released: 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 (+45 more)

2019STEADY

2,162 commits (4.0%) · +29,839 / −31,352 lines · 127 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,092 commits)

First commits: Issy Long, Dawid Dziurla, Zach Auten, Gabriel, Lawrence, hyuraku (+84 more)

Released: 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0 (+26 more)

2020SURGEwell above the usual pace

5,536 commits (10.3%) · +241,467 / −103,429 lines · 136 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,534 commits)

First commits: Rylan Polster, Seeker, lionellloh, William Ma, Vidushee Amoli, Dustin Rodrigues (+87 more)

Released: 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7 (+46 more)

2021STEADY

4,823 commits (9.0%) · +179,933 / −129,128 lines · 127 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (990 commits)

First commits: Connor Mann, Xuehai Pan, fn ⌃ ⌥, Tom Hu, Bevan Kay, Michael Cho (+71 more)

Released: 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6 (+54 more)

2022STEADY

3,420 commits (6.4%) · +95,546 / −46,055 lines · 89 authors

Led by BrewTestBot (619 commits)

First commits: Mohammad Zain Abbas, apainintheneck, Max Eisner, Lukas Oberhuber, Patrick Linnane, Harry Marr (+36 more)

Released: 3.3.10, 3.3.11, 3.3.12, 3.3.13, 3.3.14 (+43 more)

2023STEADY

4,255 commits (8.0%) · +411,425 / −233,639 lines · 120 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,216 commits)

First commits: Ruoyu Zhong, Razvan Azamfirei, JBYoshi, Nazar, Ilya Kulakov, DenizUgur (+62 more)

Released: 3.6.18, 3.6.19, 3.6.20, 3.6.21, 4.0.0 (+55 more)

2024SURGEwell above the usual pace

5,411 commits (10.1%) · +224,135 / −281,022 lines · 125 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (961 commits)

First commits: Daiki Mizukami, Ryan Schumacher, Justin Krehel, Joseph Sweeney, Aaron Ruan, Ryan Rotter (+66 more)

Released: 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 4.2.6 (+53 more)

2025STEADY

4,570 commits (8.5%) · +136,527 / −265,414 lines · 115 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (1,279 commits)

First commits: thibhero, Anton Melnikov, Ahmed Adan, Ben Kubota, Ivy Evans, Justin Rackliffe (+54 more)

Released: 4.4.15, 4.4.16, 4.4.17, 4.4.18, 4.4.19 (+57 more)

2026PEAKbusiest year

5,746 commits (10.7%) · +319,746 / −156,591 lines · 181 authors

Led by Mike McQuaid (2,501 commits)

First commits: Andrew Nesbitt, John Costa, Matt Van Horn, Anthony Holland, Sanket Kalekar, Hafez (+108 more)

Released: 5.0.9, 5.0.10, 5.0.11, 5.0.12, 5.0.13 (+54 more)