[1] Its features included wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, TFVC, Subversion or Git, discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases.
A new version of the website was released every three weeks adding additional features and updates.
[4][5] On March 21, 2012, CodePlex announced the support of Git as a source control option.
The original plan was to make CodePlex read-only in October 2017 before finally shutting it down on December 15, 2017.
[8][9][10] An archive was available as a lightweight site to browse the projects that remain, in a read-only mode.