CentralNotice Fossil (software) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Fossil (software) Original author(s) D. Richard Hipp Initial release 2006 ( 2006 ) Stable release 1.28 / 27 January 2014 ; 4 months ago ( 2014-01-27 ) Written in C Operating system Cross-platform Type distributed version control system , bug tracking system , wiki software License 2-clause BSD license [ 1 ] Website www.fossil-scm.org Fossil is a distributed version control system , bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp . 1 Features 2 Adoption 3 Source code hosting 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Features [ edit ] Fossil is a cross-platform server that runs on Linux , BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows . It is capable of performing ...