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
2022 – 2026
5 years
Peak Year
2023
6,342 commits
Releases
1,303
latest in 2026
2022BIRTHfirst commits

284 commits (1.7%) · +46,367 / −12,582 lines · 44 authors

Led by Harrison Chase (209 commits)

First commits: Harrison Chase, Samantha Whitmore, mrbean, Eugene Yurtsev, Delip Rao, Nicholas Larus-Stone (+38 more)

2023PEAKbusiest year

6,342 commits (37.4%) · +1,679,660 / −815,814 lines · 1,700 authors

Led by Harrison Chase (976 commits)

First commits: William FH, Leonid Ganeline, Zander Chase, Erick Friis, Davis Chase, Lance Martin (+1679 more)

Released: v0.0.64, v0.0.65, v0.0.66, v0.0.67, v0.0.68 (+302 more)

2024SURGEwell above the usual pace

5,701 commits (33.6%) · +1,323,031 / −1,075,487 lines · 1,400 authors

Led by Erick Friis (786 commits)

First commits: Isaac Francisco, aditya thomas, maang-h, Guangdong Liu, ZhangShenao, Zapiron (+1218 more)

Released: v0.0.354, v0.1.0, v0.1.1, v0.1.2, v0.1.3 (+389 more)

2025STEADY

2,693 commits (15.9%) · +569,384 / −1,288,297 lines · 588 authors

Led by ccurme (571 commits)

First commits: Mason Daugherty, Sydney Runkle, Michael Li, Kanav Bansal, xzq.xu, 湛露先生 (+488 more)

Released: langchain-community==0.3.14, langchain-core==0.3.29, langchain==0.3.14, langchain-voyageai==0.1.4, langchain-groq==0.2.3 (+350 more)

2026STEADY

1,958 commits (11.5%) · +213,199 / −86,244 lines · 185 authors

Led by Mason Daugherty (423 commits)

First commits: Nick Hollon, Nishitha M, John Kennedy, Richard Scarrott, Guofang.Tang, Shivangi Sharma (+140 more)

Released: langchain-core==1.2.6, langchain-anthropic==1.3.1, langchain-xai==1.2.1, langchain-openai==1.1.7, langchain==1.2.1 (+242 more)