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
