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\"Mascote<\/p>\n

GLPI is the French acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique<\/em> \u2014 the free IT asset manager. Born in 2003 at the INDEPNET association, it became a Teclib\u2019 product in 2015 and, on 1\u00ba October 2025, reached version 11. In June 2026 the community stable release is 11.0.8<\/strong>; 10.0 still receives fixes. Here is the timeline, without the \u201cfree ITIL\u201d folklore.<\/p>\n

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IRMA, INDEPNET, and 0.2<\/h2>\n

Jean-Mathieu Dol\u00e9ans was president of INDEPNET, a French free-software association aimed at organizations still inventorying their assets in spreadsheets. Bazile Lebeau took the code from a project called IRMA<\/strong>, adapted it for his employer, and the trio \u2014 Dol\u00e9ans, Lebeau, and, from 2004, Julien Dombre \u2014 repackaged it, translated it, rebuilt the interface, and gave it a new name. Dol\u00e9ans himself, on the Projets Libres<\/em> 20-year anniversary podcast, says it was not just a label change. It was refactoring. The first stable public version is 0.2, 17 November 2003<\/strong>, GPL. The GitHub CHANGELOG still contains 0.21 from 2 December that year, with an SQL migration script \u2014 the habit of glpi-X-TO-Y.sql<\/code> was already there.<\/p>\n

The initial audience was small and medium businesses and associations in France. The Open Source Award in the security category that same year appears on Teclib\u2019s official timeline. Julien Dombre joined in 2004: laboratory engineer, asset manager, \u201cinterested\u201d in the literal sense \u2014 he needed the tool.<\/p>\n

From 0.5 to 0.78: entities, ITIL, OCS<\/h2>\n

0.5 (29 Apr 2005), 0.6, 0.65, 0.68. On 21 December 2007<\/strong> 0.70 delivered what still sells the product in the public sector: multi-entity support<\/strong> \u2014 one GLPI, multiple asset inventories, isolation. Version 0.78 (12 October 2010<\/strong>) declared ITIL compatibility: tickets, assignment, SLA in service desk vocabulary. Detailed inventory \u2014 machines, monitors, printers, software, contracts \u2014 was already the core; the helpdesk grew around it.<\/p>\n

The inventory agent at first was the embedded OCS Inventory NG<\/strong> . In August 2013, 0.84 removed \u201cOCS mode\u201d from the core and moved it to the plugin ocsinventoryng<\/code>: coordinating GLPI\u00d7OCS releases had become a maintenance nightmare. In February 2010 at FOSDEM, FusionInventory<\/strong> was born \u2014 an agent (formerly OCS Unix) + SNMP\/discovery plugin for GLPI, deliberately using the OCS XML protocol. For a decade, GLPI + FusionInventory was the standard package for those who did not want SCCM.<\/p>\n

\"Diagrama:<\/p>\n

Teclib\u2019: from Gold to publisher<\/h2>\n

Teclib\u2019 appeared in 2009<\/strong> as an integrator, a Gold partner, then Platinum in 2011 \u2014 the same year Teclib counted 1 million downloads. A French company; its current about page says it was founded in 2011 and has \u201cmore than 60 people\u201d. On 26 March 2015<\/strong> Teclib's website announced that the project was \u201caccelerating in a new home\u201d. That summer, INDEPNET's community leadership handed the roadmap and R&D to Teclib, which became the publisher<\/em>. The code remained GPL. The GitHub glpi-project\/glpi<\/code> was created on 16 July 2015<\/strong> \u2014 the old forge was forge.indepnet.net<\/code>.<\/p>\n

On 9 October 2015 came 0.90<\/strong>, the last of the 0.x series. On 23 September 2016, 9.1<\/strong> dropped the leading zero. Plugins, translation (Transifex), partner network. In 2019, GLPI Network Cloud. On 7 July 2020, 9.5<\/strong> brought the Marketplace \u2014 plugins were no longer just manually handled tarballs.<\/p>\n

Native inventory, GPL-3, the Agent<\/h2>\n

Version 10.0 (20 April 2022<\/strong>) redesigned the interface and put native inventory<\/strong> in the core, with the GLPI Agent<\/strong>. The XML format still speaks the FusionInventory\/OCS language. In May 2022 Teclib published a mea culpa: the core was GPL-2.0-or-later, FusionInventory was AGPL-3.0-or-later, and the previous project's copyright had not been properly credited. The fix: source credits and changing GLPI's license to GPL-3.0-or-later<\/strong> (v2\u2019s \u201cor later\u201d allowed the jump; GPL-3 and AGPL-3 work together). Nothing changes for those who only use GLPI. Those deriving code move to GPL-3-compatible terms. The Agent remains on GitHub glpi-project\/glpi-agent<\/code> \u2014 1.19 in August 2026, with experimental support for 12.<\/p>\n

GLPI 10, twenty years, GLPI 11<\/h2>\n

Version 10.0 is the \u201cmodern\u201d look most installations still run. In 2023 the project turned 20. On 30 September 2025 the official blog proclaimed \u201cGLPI 11 is out\u201d; the GitHub tag 11.0.0<\/code> is dated 1\u00ba October 2025<\/strong>. Highlights of the major release:<\/p>\n