Redmine 6.1.0 released

2025-10-02 • Tags: 6.1, news • KUROTANI Akihiro

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Redmine 6.1.0 was released on September 21, 2025 (Central European Time).

This is the first feature release since Redmine 6.0.0 was released in November 11, 2024, and many new features have been added. The total number of improvements and fixes is 76.

What is Redmine:
Redmine is a versatile, open-source project management tool built on Ruby on Rails. It offers features like multi-project support, issue tracking, time tracking, and custom fields. Visit the official website at www.redmine.org to access a wealth of comprehensive information.

Release note summary

1. Key features

Reactions to content: Users can add reactions to issues, notes, news, and forum posts(#42630).
OAuth2 support: Redmine can now function as an OAuth2 provider (#24808).
User initials as avatar: Add user initials when Gravatar is disabled(#29824) and support initial avatars by Gravatar (#42623).
"Progress bar" custom field: A new custom field format like "Done Ratio" (#42335).

2. UI improvements

Stick the issue subject to the top of the screen (#42684).
Copy buttons: API keys and content from pre code blocks can be copied directly to the clipboard (#5953, #29214).
Changes the watch button icon to eye image (#31531). Changes 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.

3. Text formatting improvements

Automatic list marker insertion with Markdown or Textile formatting (#43095).
CommonMark alert extension enabled: highlight text as Note, Tip, Warning, Caution and Important (#42603).
Images inserted into issues or other contents will automatically adjust on HiDPI Display (#38504).
{{recent_pages}} macro: the new macro displays a list of recently updated Wiki pages (#38501).

4. Enhancements for administrators

Customize columns in the list of related and sub issues(#42477).
Configure if time entries are allowed after closing an issue (#13596).
The default settings for auto-watch issues are now customizable (#42880).
Table sorting in wiki content can be disabled (#40588).
When you delete the role in use, the projects list the role is in use are displayed in the error message, with links to the project settings page (#42441).

5. Rails, Ruby and other technical improvements

Ruby 3.4 is now supported (#41976)
Ruby 3.1 has been dropped (#42496).
Stimulus have been added to the core as a modern JavaScript framework (#42510).
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.

For a detailed overview of all the improvements and fixes, please refer to the 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.

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