Redmine

Redmine 6.1.0 is a feature-rich update that brings a number of new features, improvements, and technical changes. This release is a result of implementing nearly 70 issues, from small optimizations to completely new features, designed to improve user workflows and provide administrators with more control. Redmine developers can now use more modern tools from the Rails world.

• Reactions to content: Users can add reactions to issues, notes, news, and forum posts (#42630).
• Auth2 support: Redmine can now function as an OAuth2 provider (#24808).
• User initials as avatar: A native avatar has been implemented to display user initials as their avatar when Gravatar service is disabled (#29824). For those who use Gravatar service to display user avatars, support has been added for the new "initials" option recently launched by Gravatar (#42623).
• "Progress bar" custom field: A new custom field format has been introduced, which behaves like the existing "Done Ratio" Issue field (#42335).

• Sticky header for issues: The issue subject now remains visible at the top of the screen when scrolling through a long issue page, preventing the mistake of accidentally updating the wrong issue (#42684).
• Copy buttons: API keys and content from pre code blocks can be copied directly to the clipboard (#5953, #29214).
• Icons update: Watch icon has been changed to eye (#31531) and the quote note icon to quotation mark (#31531).
• Journals / comments / replies look and feel update: all three now uses the same structure (#42972) and the look and feel have been updated (#40744) in order to simplify the view.

• Automatic list marker insertion: pressing Enter when editing a text using Markdown or Textile formatting after a list item it will automatically insert the next list marker (#43095).
• CommonMark alert extension enabled: the extension is now enabled and it can be used to highlight text as Note, Tip, Warning, Caution and Important (#42603).
• Improved HiDPI Display: Images inserted into issues and other content will automatically adjust to the correct size on high-pixel-density screens (#38504).
• {{recent_pages}} macro: the new macro displays a list of recently updated Wiki pages (#38501).

• Configurable columns: The lists of child and related issues can now be customized with configurable columns (#42477).
• Time tracking on closed issues: You can now configure if time entries are allowed after closing an issue (#13596).
• Configurable auto-watch: The default settings for automatically watching issues are now customizable (#42880).
• Disable JavaScript table sorting in wiki content: Administrators can now disable this feature that can be a nuisance in some cases (#40588). Also, the setting is disabled for new installations.
• Improved role deletion: The error message for role deletion now lists the projects where the role is in use, with links to the project settings page (Feature #42441).

• Ruby 3.4 is now supported (#41976) and support for Ruby 3.1 has been dropped (#42496).
• Stimulus have been added to the core as a modern JavaScript framework (#42510). For now, only a few features have been implemented / modernised using this new framework, but we will continue to adopt it in Redmine 7.
• 14 issues tickets that improve the performance. On top of this, Redmine developers can now use the bullet gem to automatically detect inefficient database queries (#42555).
• Redmine::I18n::Backend has been removed (#42859).
• The task list items provided by the CommoMark uses now the commonmarks tasklist extension. deckar01-task_list gem has been removed.

You can download the new version from Download and you can see the full Changelog.

Many thanks to all contributors that have been made this release possible, especially to Go MAEDA and his team (Katsuya HIDAKA, Mizuki ISHIKAWA) who actively improves Redmine, to Plan.io (Jens Krämer, Holger Just) for their major contributions and many others.

• as we already announced in Redmine 6.0.7, 5.1.10 and 5.0.14 released, Redmine 5.0 is now end of life.
• Redmine 5.1 is now the legacy version that will receive only security updates.
• Redmine 6 series are the stable versions.
• Redmine 7.0.0 is the next major release.

We are planning to change the release cycle of the major versions in order to match the release cycle of Ruby / Rails and to support quicker the new versions. I hope we can achieve this starting from next year.