Redmine Release Notes

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

• redmine-5.1.11 2026-01-06 redmine-5.1.11.tar.gz 5320bf7a35d3e9feb90c52d8bd018aa263dc77eb17c96001d8b3223c59549049
• redmine-5.1.11.zip 5536a776edf6cb61fc48ac99b710ad49bb571b74011b903d5bfe8f3c509d38e2
• redmine-6.0.8 2026-01-06 redmine-6.0.8.tar.gz e4308852aff663296a9f77d31302f4d018e04305ed030abd47982d5dda03cc46
• redmine-6.0.8.zip 8dd4cc137880ae0b5b46ff96d5460a8a127fbdbb440c16c75d09c3ababc376f9
• redmine-6.1.1 2026-01-06 redmine-6.1.1.tar.gz 1f2e6dd0697062fc733701f88b5041dc0dfc6b536255eb7902f21fb0970e603e
• redmine-6.1.1.zip a7d1abfe3613941c50b3420b770316f38811fb1d9de1ce0b04aebcdcdbc37b15

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.
  • 6.1.x Latest stable version. Fully supported with new features, bug fixes, and security updates.
  • 6.0.x Latest stable version. It will receive only bug fixes and security updates.
  • 5.1.x Legacy stable version. It will receive security updates only.
  • 5.0.x Unsupported.
  • 4.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

6.1 Stable

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

Subversion

svn co https://svn.redmine.org/redmine/branches/6.1-stable redmine-6.1

It will create a directory named
redmine-6.1
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.

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Original source Report a problem

Code cleanup/refactoring

• Defect #43441: Fix failures in test/system/issues_test.rb
• Patch #43638: Update copyright year to 2026

Gems support

• Defect #43609: Tests fail with minitest 6.0

Security

• Defect #43451: PostScript disguised as PDF can lead to arbitrary file operations via thumbnail generation
• Defect #43634: Authorization bypass in Redmine allows modification of attachment metadata on invisible issues
• Defect #43635: Authorization bypass in Redmine allows deletion of attachment on invisible issues external

Original source Report a problem

Code cleanup/refactoring

• Defect #43441: Fix failures in test/system/issues_test.rb
• Patch #43638: Update copyright year to 2026

Custom fields

• Defect #43521: Saving a custom field fails with 500 when regular expression is invalid

Gems support

• Defect #43609: Tests fail with minitest 6.0

Issues list

• Defect #43283: Overdue due date text does not turn light gray when issue is selected

No category

• Patch #43275: Remove continue-on-error: true from the system test job in GitHub CI

Rails support

• Patch #43633: Update Rails to 7.2.3

Security

• Defect #43451: PostScript disguised as PDF can lead to arbitrary file operations via thumbnail generation
• Defect #43634: Authorization bypass in Redmine allows modification of attachment metadata on invisible issues
• Defect #43635: Authorization bypass in Redmine allows deletion of attachment on invisible issues external

SCM

• Defect #43525: "label_added" is not translated in the repository revision view legend

Text formatting

• Defect #43612: Inline code rendering does not preserve multiple spaces

Translations

• Patch #43490: Japanese translation update (jstoolbar-ja.js) for 6.0-stable

UI

• Defect #43378: Column headers are slightly shifted to the right in tables in list views
• Defect #43527: Login and Email columns are unexpectedly center-aligned on the Users page since Redmine 5.1

Original source Report a problem

Code cleanup/refactoring

• Defect #42687: Fix random failures in several system tests with Chrome 133 and later
• Patch #42422: Use Capybara's assert_current_path in "log_user" steps to wait for page in ApplicationSystemTestCase
• Patch #42600: Suppress "Change your password" popup for stable system tests
• Patch #42756: Update tests for rails-dom-testing 2.3.0 whitespace collapsing

Database

• Defect #42622: Joining both atom_token and api_token on the User model causes an error due to the ambiguous column name "action"

Email receiving

• Defect #42962: Mail handler fails to create issues from emails over 4MB on Rack >= 3.1.14

Gems support

• Defect #42606: RuboCop warning about deprecated EnsureNode#body with rubocop-ast >= 1.41

I18n

• Defect #42815: Limit available locales to those defined by Redmine itself no longer works

Issues workflow

• Defect #42875: "Page not found" error when saving workflows with many statuses on Rack >= 3.1.14

No category

• Patch #42688: Run system tests on GitHub CI

Performance

• Defect #42933: Fix N+1 query issue in Wiki history page when loading authors of Wiki content versions

SCM

• Defect #42839: Downloading .js files from the repository browser fails with a 422 error due to ActionController::InvalidCrossOriginRequest
• Patch #42597: Skip some Mercurial tests when using Mercurial 5.1 or later in Redmine 6.0 or 5.1

Security

• Patch #42662: Require net-imap gem 0.2.5, 0.3.9, 0.4.20, 0.5.7, or later to address CVE-2025-43857

Text formatting

• Defect #42648: Wiki/CommonMark: Broken references for multiple footnote usage

UI

• Defect #42640: Query totals overlaps query buttons when an RTL language is used
• Patch #42794: Hide irrelevant information when printing

Original source Report a problem