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Version control system

GNU Bazaar
Bazaar logo
Original author Martin Pool
Developers Canonical and community
Initial release 26 March 2005; 21 years ago (2005-03-26)[1]
Final release 2.7.0[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 February 2016
Written in Python 2, Pyrex (optional), C
Operating system Cross-platform
Successor Breezy
Type Distributed and Client–server revision control system
License GPL-2.0-or-later[3]
Website https://bazaar.canonical.com/
Repository launchpad.net/bzr

GNU Bazaar (formerly Bazaar-NG, command line tool bzr) is a distributed and client–server revision control system sponsored by Canonical.

Bazaar can be used by a single developer working on multiple branches of local content, or by teams collaborating across a network.

Bazaar is written in the Python programming language, with packages for major Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Bazaar is free software and in 2008 became part of the GNU Project.[4][5] It was used by Canonical for their Launchpad code hosting website. The last release was in 2016. In 2025 Canonical announced the retirement of Bazaar.[6] Breezy is a fork of Bazaar.

  1. ^ "bzr 0.0.1 released". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
  2. ^ "2.7.0 released". 15 February 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. ^ "What is Bazaar?". Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2010. Bazaar is an official GNU project, licensed under the GPLv2 or later, at your option.
  4. ^ Pool, Martin (26 February 2008). "Bazaar is now a GNU project". bazaar-announce (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 13 April 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
  5. ^ Pool, Martin (21 May 2008). "Bazaar becomes a GNU project". info-gnu (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2008.
  6. ^ "Phasing out Bazaar code hosting". discourse.ubuntu.com. 4 June 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025.