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The fork next door: what changed in v1.1.0
From v1.0.0 (2026-10-16, ebc03336e) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot fk-triangle.webp | images/ | Three corners, one exit each: founders, investors and customers around the open code sits in the middle, and each corner can take it and carry on. The founders can leave if no broad non-compete stops them; the investors can fund a team next door if they can pay for it; the customers can move if their data leaves with them, cheaply.code. Illustrative. | architecture
16 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, The triangle {#triangle}, Forks only take hold when something breaks {#breaks}
!shot fk-forks.webp | images/ | Six forks: what broke, the year each fork began,began and what happened next. MariaDB stayed a hedge while MySQL kept shipping; io.js merged back once a foundation fixed the governance; LibreOffice, Nextcloud, OpenTofu and Valkey took hold after a new owner, a change of direction or a licence change. | comparison
9 unchanged paragraphs, under When the original keeps executing, the fork stays a hedge {#executing}
!shot fk-mysql.webp | images/ | Commits a year to the trunk branch of mysql/mysql-server: about 8,900 inmysql/mysql-server, 2019 and about 2,800 in 2025, a fall of roughly two thirds. 2026 runs to 28 September.September Measured2026, by this sitemeasured from a clone of the repository.clone. | comparison
39 unchanged paragraphs, under The best investors are the ones who need it to work {#investors}, Founders can leave with the code, if the contract lets them {#founders}, Customers need their data to move {#customers}…