Download¶

Latest releases¶

Redmine releases are available in either .tar.gz or .zip format:

redmine-5.0.12	2025-03-10	redmine-5.0.12.tar.gz	57c3995c3724ee3a28631aa969918f75bee2d3681950827f49197f9b0ba8cfaa
		redmine-5.0.12.zip	8e919df2815eb45565f90506dff11a79423d1fa3c03776a9ed9237f9c7219cf9
redmine-5.1.8	2025-04-20	redmine-5.1.8.tar.gz	50a30cd16c43d0ae64f256866c8cef4b0e9dd818d6feef489fa24507fbde3a7b
		redmine-5.1.8.zip	a64e2fe6d67d65764c7530e7333ddf5e113abc272445ffbb54776d0bbbddb909
redmine-6.0.5	2025-04-20	redmine-6.0.5.tar.gz	94dcc53115e0581ac46e60c3ed9318f1926ce464babbb385e5236217d1e6a64e
		redmine-6.0.5.zip	7bb8b9700f1e22c5463847f387ac3c2bade86230e6ee7b6277f9be2316dd4ec5

See the Changelog for details and RedmineInstall for installation instructions or RedmineUpgrade for upgrading instructions.

You can also browse the older releases.

Versions status and releases policy¶

Version	Support Status
trunk	Unstable version. It will receive new features, bug fixes, and security updates
6.0.x	Latest stable version. Fully supported with new features, bug fixes, and security updates
5.1.x	Latest stable version. It will receive only bug fixes and security updates
5.0.x	Legacy stable version. It will receive security updates only
4.2.x	Unsupported
4.1.x and older	Unsupported

Release policy¶

• Next Redmine releases are always available in Roadmap page
• In a best-effort manner:
  • Minor versions are released every 3 months
  • Major versions once per year
  • Critical / important security fixes or major bug fixes as soon as possible.

Support policy¶

• latest minor version is fully supported and it is fully supported
• latest minor version - 1 is supported with bug fixes and security updates
• latest minor version - 2 with security updates only

For example, if Redmine 6.0.0 is the latest version, then:

• Redmine 6.0.* is the latest minor version
• Redmine 5.1.* in the latest minor version -1 and it will receive bug fixes and security updates
• Redmine 5.0.* is the latest minor version -2 and it will receive security updates only.

Source code¶

You can checkout the source code of Redmine from the Subversion repository. This is the preferred way to get Redmine if you want to benefit from the latest improvements and be able to upgrade easily.

The URL of the official Subversion repository is: https://svn.redmine.org/redmine

Alternatively, you can clone it from the Github mirror maintained by the community: https://github.com/redmine/redmine

6.0 Stable¶

You can checkout the latest stable source with one of the following commands:

Subversion

svn co https://svn.redmine.org/redmine/branches/6.0-stable redmine-6.0

It will create a directory named redmine-6.0 and you'll be able to update your Redmine copy using svn update in this directory.

Development (unstable)¶

You can checkout the latest development source from the trunk with one of the following commands:

Subversion

svn co https://svn.redmine.org/redmine/trunk redmine

Third-party Redmine bundles¶

• TurnKey Redmine Appliance - Provides a free lightweight Debian-based Redmine appliance (available as an ISO, virtual machine image or cloud image).

• BitNami Redmine Stack – Provides free virtual machines, containers, and cloud images for Redmine.