Indeed, really great (and interesting). Would be really interesting to know also what the geographies, i.e., locations, are.
Gj On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM Eirik Bakke <[email protected]> wrote: > The installer is clearly a success! The stats themselves are also very > helpful; I always found it hard to parse the Apache servers' download > statistics. > > It is interesting to see that there's at least 300,000 active NetBeans > users on Windows alone--and that only counts the ones that decided to > upgrade for this particular release, and who used the installer rather than > ZIP etc. > > All this volunteer work really benefits *a lot* of users. Thanks Neil, and > all the other contributors! > > -- Eirik > > From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM > To: dev <[email protected]> > Subject: Community installer stats for NetBeans 27 > Hi All, > > Now that the release of NetBeans 28 is in progress, and as my final > installer-related task, I've taken a snapshot of the download > statistics for the NetBeans 27 community installers. Figures for > NetBeans 26 were shared previously - > https://lists.apache.org/thread/g8cflo6n10dpvs994nlf039m5ofdo30t > > Windows exe x86_64 307,688 (71.76%) > macOS pkg x86_64 19,496 (4.55%) > macOS pkg arm64 85,025 (19.83%) > Linux deb x86_64 10,852 (2.53%) > Linux deb arm64 2,183 (0.51%) > Linux rpm x86_64 3,507 (0.82%) > > TOTAL 428,751 (compared to 228,055 for NetBeans 26) > > Figures from GitHub API via live view at > > https://tooomm.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=friends-of-apache-netbeans&repository=netbeans-installers > > Interesting to note the substantial increase from NetBeans 26 - as I > said in the previous email, that was always the slowest 3 month period > for installer usage. > > Interesting also to note the significant increase in the proportion of > macOS arm64 downloads - 5.70% to 19.83% > > As last time, enjoy your stats with a good pinch of salt! :-) > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > >
