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title: Radicle's History
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A brief <strong class="highlight">history</strong> of the Radicle project, in
reverse-chronological order.

### June, 2025

Radicle 1.2.0 is released.

### December, 2024

Radicle 1.1.0 is released.

### September, 2024

Radicle 1.0.0 is released.

### March, 2024

Radicle gears up for its 1.0 release-candidate phase, with `1.0.0-rc.1`.

### January, 2023

Radicle becomes self-hosted: development of the Radicle stack moves to Radicle.

### July, 2022

The Radicle team starts working on the third generation of its protocol,
called [Heartwood][heartwood].

Upstream is sunset in favor of the web client which transitions to the
Heartwood protocol.

### February, 2022

Radicle launches a new [web client][web] based on the Radicle Link protocol.

### January 2021

Development of Radicle moves to the Radicle Foundation, funded by the
[Radworks][radworks] organization.

### December, 2020

The **Radicle Upstream** desktop client is released, based on the new Radicle
Link protocol.

The Link protocol is modeled around [Secure Scuttlebut][ssb] and uses Git under
the hood for replication. IPFS is [no longer][689] used.

### June, 2020

The Radicle Foundation is established. A Swiss non-profit that oversees the
development of the project.

### October, 2019

Development on the second generation of the Radicle protocol, **Radicle Link**
starts.

### February, 2019

Radicle, a code collaboration platform launches in *alpha*. The initial version
of Radicle is built on [IPFS][ipfs].

### January, 2018

Berlin-based **Monadic GmbH** is founded by [Eleftherios Diakomichalis][ed] and
[Alexis Sellier][as] a.k.a cloudhead to pursue the vision of a sovereign
developer stack.

[radworks]: https://radworks.org
[ipfs]: https://ipfs.tech/
[heartwood]: {{ "rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5" | explore }}
[web]: {{ "rad:z4V1sjrXqjvFdnCUbxPFqd5p4DtH5" | explore }}
[689]: https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-alpha/issues/689
[as]: https://cloudhead.io
[ed]: https://eleftherios.io/
[ssb]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt