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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Gitea vs Skipper
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Gitea and Skipper — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Gitea vs Skipper: at a glance
What is Gitea?
Gitea has switched to version 28 numbering; its feed has caught only the dev tags.
Gitea's feed captures release candidates and development tags, not final releases. The newest entry is a v29.0.0-dev tag on September 29 that adds the changelog for 28.0.0, which means Gitea has switched from 1.x numbering to major versions. Before that the visible entries were 1.26.0-rc0 in April, with Actions concurrency and a Terraform state registry, and 1.27.0-rc0 in June, with owner-level and global workflows and access-control fixes.
What is Skipper?
Skipper now serves zone-filtered routes only when its own ingress is balanced across zones.
Skipper, Zalando's HTTP router and Kubernetes ingress, tags a release for nearly every merge, so most entries are dependency bumps. The substantive ones this autumn are about zone-aware routing: v0.28.56 made routesrv recompress only zones whose routes changed, and v0.28.60 on November 2 serves zone-filtered routes only when skipper-ingress is balanced across zones, falling back to the global table otherwise.
Gitea vs Skipper: editorial side-by-side
Gitea
0.0INFRA · APIS
Gitea has switched to version 28 numbering; its feed has caught only the dev tags.
◆ Current state
Gitea's feed captures release candidates and development tags, not final releases. The newest entry is a v29.0.0-dev tag on September 29 that adds the changelog for 28.0.0, which means Gitea has switched from 1.x numbering to major versions. Before that the visible entries were 1.26.0-rc0 in April, with Actions concurrency and a Terraform state registry, and 1.27.0-rc0 in June, with owner-level and global workflows and access-control fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
Actions has been the main area of change across the 1.26 and 1.27 candidates, with reusable and scoped workflows, alongside repeated access-control fixes. The move to 28.0.0 numbering marks a new release scheme, but the feed has not captured its releases.
◆ Prediction
The feed is likely to keep showing dev tags rather than finals; the next visible entry may be a v29 release candidate.
Skipper
5.0INFRA · APIS
Skipper now serves zone-filtered routes only when its own ingress is balanced across zones.
◆ Current state
Skipper, Zalando's HTTP router and Kubernetes ingress, tags a release for nearly every merge, so most entries are dependency bumps. The substantive ones this autumn are about zone-aware routing: v0.28.56 made routesrv recompress only zones whose routes changed, and v0.28.60 on November 2 serves zone-filtered routes only when skipper-ingress is balanced across zones, falling back to the global table otherwise.
◆ Where it's heading
Zone-aware routing is being made safe for production, with guards against skew and fixes for a data race and silent misconfiguration. It currently works only in the routesrv mode, and the release notes say the direct Kubernetes mode needs the same filtering.
◆ Prediction
Expect zone filtering to be extended to the skipper-to-Kubernetes mode in a coming tag, as the v0.28.60 notes say is needed.
Alternatives to Gitea and Skipper
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Gitea or Skipper.
OctoPrint
OctoPrint 2.0 is on its seventh release candidate, still with no final date.
quarto
Quarto's VS Code extension moved to MIT and now ships fixes for Positron and citations.
rsyslog
rsyslog keeps adding cloud outputs, with Kinesis in October after CloudWatch in August.
KubeVirt
KubeVirt 1.10 reaches beta with 1,345 changes from 94 contributors.
ToolJet
ToolJet's beta adds data source folders, database environments and git sync for workflows.
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Recent activity from Gitea and Skipper
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 8h agoSkipperv0.28.60: zone-aware routing gated on ingress zone balance
- 9h agoSkipperv0.28.59: Alpine base image bump
- 9h agoSkipperv0.28.58: fuzzing base image bump
- 9h agoSkipperv0.28.57: Brotli decoder and x/net bumps
- 7d agoSkipperSkipper routesrv only recompresses changed zones
- 7d agoSkipperSkipper v0.28.55: fuzzing base image bump
- 1mo agoGiteav29.0.0-dev tag; changelog for 28.0.0 added
- 4mo agoGiteaOwner-level and global workflows, plus five access-control fixes
- 4mo agoGiteaRolling dev tag, dependency bump only
- 6mo agoGiteaActions concurrency syntax, Terraform state registry, maintenance mode
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Gitea and Skipper?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Skipper is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Gitea better than Skipper?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Skipper is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Gitea?
Top Gitea alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Gitea alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/gitea for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Skipper?
Top Skipper alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Skipper alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/skipper for the full list with editorial commentary on each.