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
2016 – 2026
11 years
Peak Year
2019
4,310 commits
Releases
54
latest in 2026
2016BIRTHfirst commits

134 commits (0.5%) · +284 / −15 lines · 12 authors

Led by Martin Taillefer (50 commits)

First commits: Martin Taillefer, Douglas Reid, Kuat, mandarjog, Sven Mawson, Kuat Yessenov (+6 more)

2017STEADY

2,811 commits (10.5%) · +369,785 / −101,970 lines · 116 authors

Led by Kuat (221 commits)

First commits: Istio Automation, Shriram Rajagopalan, Andra Cismaru, Frank Budinsky, Jason Young, Yang Guan (+99 more)

Released: 0.3.0

2018STEADY

3,468 commits (12.9%) · +3,556,158 / −1,219,061 lines · 248 authors

Led by Shriram Rajagopalan (149 commits)

First commits: Tiger Xu / Zhonghu Xu, Yossi Mesika, Quanjie Lin, Yangmin Zhu, Martin Ostrowski, Pengyuan Bian (+183 more)

Released: 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 1.0.0-snapshot.0, 1.0.0-snapshot.1, 1.0.0-snapshot.2 (+6 more)

2019PEAKbusiest year

4,310 commits (16.1%) · +1,584,533 / −3,395,374 lines · 292 authors

Led by John Howard (560 commits)

First commits: John Howard, Xinnan Wen, Chris Wilson, Phillip Quy Le, Tao HE, Yan Xue (+188 more)

Released: 1.1.0-snapshot.5, 1.1.0-snapshot.6, 1.1.0-rc.0, 1.1.0-rc.1, 1.1.0-rc.2 (+15 more)

2020STEADY

3,625 commits (13.5%) · +1,033,642 / −1,268,084 lines · 257 authors

Led by John Howard (947 commits)

First commits: Steven Landow, Shamsher Ansari, Tariq Ibrahim, jacob-delgado, Aditya Prerepa, Navraj Singh Chhina (+156 more)

Released: 1.5.0-beta.1, 1.5.0-beta.2, 1.6.0-alpha.0, 1.6.0-alpha.1, 1.6.0-alpha.2 (+1 more)

2021STEADY

2,685 commits (10.0%) · +291,684 / −231,730 lines · 186 authors

Led by John Howard (609 commits)

First commits: Kailun Qin, gy95, Steve Zhang, ChenglongGao327, dwq, Zack Zhang (+100 more)

Released: 1.12.0-alpha.0, 1.12.0-alpha.1, 1.12.0-alpha.5

2022STEADY

2,356 commits (8.8%) · +244,958 / −177,443 lines · 201 authors

Led by Istio Automation (675 commits)

First commits: my-git9, Jacek Ewertowski, Ambor, Chen Xintong, Akshay J Nambiar, ramanujadasu (+117 more)

2023STEADY

2,538 commits (9.5%) · +397,480 / −298,852 lines · 194 authors

Led by Istio Automation (821 commits)

First commits: Keith Mattix II, rokkiter, Ben Leggett, cebernardi, Jackie Maertens, Oleksandr Redko (+108 more)

Released: 1.18.0-alpha.0, 1.19.0-alpha.0, 1.19.0-alpha.1

2024STEADY

2,341 commits (8.7%) · +318,212 / −303,622 lines · 173 authors

Led by Istio Automation (828 commits)

First commits: Sridhar Gaddam, Sumit Vij, Maxim Babushkin, James McShane, Adil Mohamed M P, Tyler Schade (+90 more)

Released: 1.22.0-alpha.1, 1.23.0-alpha.0, 1.24.0-alpha.0

2025STEADY

1,459 commits (5.4%) · +157,432 / −96,192 lines · 161 authors

Led by Istio Automation (610 commits)

First commits: Krinkin, Mike, co63oc, Michael Fraenkel, German Robayo, Nilekh Chaudhari, J. Conrad Hanson (+90 more)

Released: 1.25.0-alpha.0, 1.26.0-alpha.0, 1.28.0-alpha.0

2026STEADY

1,072 commits (4.0%) · +173,727 / −45,913 lines · 147 authors

Led by Istio Automation (327 commits)

First commits: Jackson Greer, darren, code, Mads Jensen, Jack Kawell, Prabhjot Singh (+81 more)

Released: 1.29.0-alpha.0, 1.30.0-alpha.1, 1.31.0-alpha.0, 1.32.0-alpha.0