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About

Woodpecker is a community-driven open source CI/CD tool. It is lightweight, fast and simple to use. It can be used with many different Git providers and runners.

History​

Woodpecker was originally forked from Drone 0.8 by @laszlocph in 2019 after its license model was changed.

A few important time points:

  • 2fbaa56 is the first commit of the fork, made on Apr 3, 2019.
  • The first release v0.8.91 was published on Apr 6, 2019.
  • On Aug 27, 2019, the project was renamed to "Woodpecker" (630c383).
  • The first release under the name "Woodpecker" was published on Sep 9, 2019 (v0.8.104).

Differences to Drone​

Woodpecker is a community-driven open source software published under the Apache License 2.0 and will always remain so. Drone CI is managed by Harness and is available in two editions: Open Source under Apache License 2.0 and Enterprise under Polyform Small Business license. In terms of Drone's feature set, Woodpecker is somewhere between Drone Enterprise and OSS, but also has some unique features.