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Trac vs Bugzilla: catalog facts
Trac	Bugzilla
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.	Free Free and open source, funded by donations and sponsors.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Cross-links between tickets, commits and wiki pages Works with Subversion and Git	Proven at very large scale Docker Compose setup for quick evaluation
Dated interface compared with newer forges No built-in code review or pull requests	Releases are infrequent Perl-based setup is heavier than modern trackers
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: MPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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