Blockly enters its next chapter of community-led growth and innovation
After more than 12 years of growth at Google, the Blockly open-source project will become an independent project under the stewardship of Raspberry Pi Foundation. On November 10, 2025, the Blockly project and key Blockly team members will transition to the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This next chapter in Blockly's future is designed to drive Blockly's long-term stability and continued innovation as a foundational tool for block-based coding and computer science education worldwide.
This investment follows Google.org's model of incubating powerful educational innovations and then positioning their long-term, sustainable impact. This support strengthens the ecosystem built on block-based coding, fostering greater innovation and expanding access to computational thinking for people around the world.
Yes. Both Google and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are committed to Blockly's core library remaining free and open source under its existing Apache 2.0 license. Raspberry Pi Foundation is committed to the long-term growth of Blockly's open code base and developer community.
Nothing. Developers do not need to make any changes to their existing projects. Blockly's core library will continue to be maintained and developed as you would expect.
The Blockly Community Forum will remain on its current Google Group.
Blockly's developer documentation, website and summit content will be migrated to a consolidated site on blockly.com.
We plan to launch this by March 2026. We'll let folks know on the Blockly Community Forum when the new site and its redirect pages are up.
Yes. We are excited to host the 2026 Blockly Summit in Cambridge, UK which is the global HQ of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We'll share more details early next year.
You can contact the Blockly team at blockly-support@google.com
After November 8th, the Blockly team can be reached at support@blockly.com
