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Trac vs GitBucket: catalog facts
Trac	GitBucket
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.	Free Free and open source under the Apache License 2.0.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Cross-links between tickets, commits and wiki pages Works with Subversion and Git	Runs from a single WAR file with Java API compatible with GitHub
Dated interface compared with newer forges No built-in code review or pull requests	Requires Java 17 on the server No Jakarta EE support for servlet container deployments
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: Apache-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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