Semaphore CI/CD platform is now open source under the Apache 2.0. Check out the code and build your own pipelines. Contributions are welcome!
Semaphore Goes Open Source Today
Darko Fabijan
26 Feb 2025
Darko Fabijan
Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days
Semaphore is open-sourcing its core CI/CD platform under Apache 2.0, empowering developers with flexibility, transparency, and innovation.
Darko Fabijan
29 Jan 2025
Semaphore is Now SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant!
Semaphore is Now SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant.
Darko Fabijan
24 Jan 2025
Smoke Testing Keeps Your Delivery Pipeline Safe and Sound
Explore the origins of smoke testing and learn how to incorporate it into your continuous integration or continuous delivery pipelines.
Darko Fabijan
15 Mar 2022
Introducing CI/CD Pipeline Dependencies
We’re excited to announce that Semaphore can now run and visualize arbitrarily complex CI/CD pipelines. Although this new feature brings great power and is fueled by fancy-pants directed acyclic graph (or DAG) math theory, it’s actually super simple to use. All you need to do is define how elements of your pipeline depend on each […]
Darko Fabijan
22 Jul 2019
Launching Semaphore Podcast: The Uncut Chats
I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Semaphore Podcast which is a natural continuation of the Semaphore Uncut Chats that I’ve started a few months ago. We, as leaders in the software development space and mentors for our technical teams, are all on the same mission to build great software products, ship them […]
Darko Fabijan
30 May 2019
Dec 12-17 Network Incident Report
From Tuesday, December 12 until Sunday, December 17, the Semaphore build cluster suffered from sporadic network instabilities due to a faulty device at a Tier 1 network provider.
Darko Fabijan
18 Jan 2018
Why We Need Continuous Integration
Introduction Continuous integration is a practice that helps developers deliver better software in a more reliable and predictable manner. This article deals with the problems developers face while writing, testing and delivering software to end users. Through exploring continuous integration, we will cover how we can overcome these issues. The Problem First, we will take […]
Darko Fabijan
18 Mar 2015
Semaphore stickers are here
At last they are here!
Darko Fabijan
8 Sep 2014
Capistrano 3 Upgrade Guide
We recently started receiving support requests about Capistrano 3. Of course to provide quality support you have to know the subject, so I set on a quest to upgrade Semaphore’s deployment script from Capistrano 2 to Capistrano 3. As always it took a bit than expected but in the end new code looks nicer.
Darko Fabijan
26 Nov 2013
Growing our team – get ready for new greatness
We have awesome news that we would like to share with you. Semaphore team will almost double its development power. New features, speed improvements and even faster support are around the corner. That’s in case you are a fan of TL;DR, otherwise please read on.
Darko Fabijan
29 Oct 2013
Semaphore launched
Close to two hundred people signed up to beta test Semaphore. We invited a better part (sorry if we haven’t invited you early), and those who were invited actually became a part of our team in a way. Thank you so much people and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Darko Fabijan
14 Jun 2012
Semaphore gets customizable build commands
Since we launched Semaphore as a private beta a month ago we have received a lot of positive feedback along with many feature requests. We saw various projects and realized that many people need to do something in the test suite that we cannot guess. Or simply want to build a Ruby project that is […]
Darko Fabijan
12 Apr 2012
Introducing Semaphore
Semaphore is a product of scratching our own itch. Rendered Text as a team of five people usually works on a few projects at a time.
Darko Fabijan
5 Mar 2012