diff --git a/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb b/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
index a42affd74..52fd7a5a5 100644
--- a/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class WelcomeController < ApplicationController
 
   def index
     @news = News.latest User.current
+    @projects = Redmine::ProjectJumpBox.new(User.current).recently_used_projects
   end
 
   def robots
diff --git a/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb b/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
index 7211818f3..9364c6688 100644
--- a/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@
 </div>
 
 <div class="splitcontentright">
+  <% if @projects.any? %>
+  <div class="projects box">
+    <h3 class="icon icon-projects"><%= sprite_icon('projects', l(:label_project_recently_used)) %></h3>
+    <ul>
+      <% @projects.each do |project| %>
+      <li><%= link_to_project project %></li>
+      <% end %>
+    </ul>
+    <%= link_to l(:label_project_view_all), :controller => 'projects' %>
+  </div>
+  <% end %>
   <% if @news.any? %>
   <div class="news box">
   <h3 class="icon icon-news"><%= sprite_icon('news', l(:label_news_latest))%></h3>
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index 948b61958..89b0664f9 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ en:
     other: "%{count} projects"
   label_project_all: All Projects
   label_project_latest: Latest projects
+  label_project_recently_used: Recently used projects
+  label_project_view_all: View all projects
   label_issue: Issue
   label_issue_new: New issue
   label_issue_plural: Issues
diff --git a/config/locales/ja.yml b/config/locales/ja.yml
index 76c22b70f..76a14a61f 100644
--- a/config/locales/ja.yml
+++ b/config/locales/ja.yml
@@ -1279,6 +1279,8 @@ ja:
   label_import_notifications: インポート中のメール通知
   text_gs_available: ImageMagickのPDFサポートが利用可能 (オプション)
   field_recently_used_projects: 最近使用したプロジェクトの表示件数
+  label_project_recently_used: 最近使用したプロジェクト
+  label_project_view_all: すべてのプロジェクトを表示
   label_optgroup_bookmarks: ブックマーク
   label_optgroup_recents: 最近使用したもの
   button_project_bookmark: ブックマークに追加
diff --git a/test/functional/welcome_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/welcome_controller_test.rb
index ba1a30235..9e5bb5727 100644
--- a/test/functional/welcome_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/welcome_controller_test.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,33 @@ class WelcomeControllerTest < Redmine::ControllerTest
     assert_select 'h3', :text => 'Latest news'
   end
 
+  def test_index_should_display_recently_used_projects
+    user = User.find(2)
+    jump_box = Redmine::ProjectJumpBox.new(user)
+    jump_box.project_used(Project.find('ecookbook'))
+    jump_box.project_used(Project.find('onlinestore'))
+    @request.session[:user_id] = user.id
+
+    get :index
+
+    assert_select 'div.projects.box' do
+      assert_select 'h3', :text => 'Recently used projects'
+      assert_select 'li', :count => 2
+      assert_select 'li:nth-child(1) a', :text => 'OnlineStore'
+      assert_select 'li:nth-child(2) a', :text => 'eCookbook'
+      assert_select 'a[href="/projects"]', :text => 'View all projects'
+    end
+  end
+
+  def test_index_should_not_display_recently_used_projects_for_anonymous
+    jump_box = Redmine::ProjectJumpBox.new(User.find(2))
+    jump_box.project_used(Project.find('ecookbook'))
+
+    get :index
+
+    assert_select 'div.projects.box', :count => 0
+  end
+
   def test_browser_language
     @request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] = 'fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3'
     get :index