Redmine 6.0.5, 5.1.8 released

2025-04-28 • Tags: 6.0, 5.1, news • ISHIHARA Yukiko

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On April 20, 2025 (Central European Time), Redmine 6.0.5 and 5.1.8 were released.

These releases are maintenance releases focusing on bug fixes, with Redmine 6.0.5 including 32 fixes compared to 6.0.4.

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.

This release fixes an issue where the display of plugin activity icons would break when multiple plugins are loaded (#42509). Also, support for RTL languages has been improved (#42575, #42465).

Changes

Changes only in 6.0.5 (18 changes)

Custom fields

Defect #42342: Missing thousands separator in Integer and Float custom field totals

Plugin API

Defect #42509: Plugin activity icons broken when multiple plugins are loaded

Project

Patch #42440: Fix project selector focus by explicitly targeting the first selected item

SCM

Patch #42500: Skip repository tests when the SCM client command is unavailable

UI

Defect #41833: Tabs left / right buttons use legacy icons
Defect #41952: Flash notice icons use the legacy icons
Defect #41967: Replace SCM action legacy icons with SVG icons in the tree view of the repository browser
Defect #42181: Project jump box uses legacy caret icons
Defect #42285: Icon expanded for closed fixed versions missing
Defect #42286: Context menu right arrow uses the legacy icon
Defect #42369: Expander icons not switch in Collapse all/Expand all
Defect #42465: Improve SVG icon compatibility with RTL languages
Defect #42487: Improve SVG contrast when a row is selected on table list
Defect #42520: PNG icon displayed instead of SVG in subtasks list when viewing all tasks
Defect #42532: Expander icon not working in repository tree
Defect #42575: Fix sidebar switch button display in RTL language
Defect #42576: Newly attached files are displayed using the legacy icons
Patch #42577: Replace legacy Atom icon with SVG icon

Common changes in 6.0.5, 5.1.8 (14 changes)

Administration

Defect #42584: NoMethodError when creating a user with an invalid email address and domain restrictions are enabled

Attachments

Defect #42394: Inconsistent behaviour between attachment download routes with and without filename

Code cleanup/refactoring

Patch #42562: Fix random test failure in ProjectAdminQueryTest due to missing language setting
Patch #42572: Fix random test failure in MemberTest#test_update_roles_with_inherited_roles due to non-deterministic ordering

Custom fields

Patch #41935: Add "editable" attribute in the custom fields API response

Gantt

Defect #42145: MiniMagick (> 5) removed cli_path, result crash when supplied imagemagick_convert_command

Issues

Defect #42458: "For all projects" checkbox should be disabled when editing an existing query in which the checkbox is already checked

Performance

Defect #40728: Slow loading of global spent time list in MySQL
Feature #42574: Optimize autocomplete issue listing triggered by typing "##" by eager loading trackers

Text formatting

Defect #42545: Commit message in issue history might be rendered in incorrect context

UI

Defect #41828: In mobile view, delete relation svg icon in 'Related Issues' on an issue page, overflow text
Defect #41947: Collapse arrow shows the wrong direction at /workflows/edit
Patch #42497: Adjust the position of the news comment delete button
Patch #42596: Do not show user icon in add watchers modal when gravatar is disabled