Being one of the most popular flexible project management tools Redmine always implements regular updates including the major version upgrade.
Redmine 5.0 was released about a month ago. This version comes with several changes including some major updates.
Below we will briefly review the most noteworthy improvements for you to get better idea whether it makes sense to upgrade to Redmine 5.0 or not.
In total there are 9 major improvements on the list. Some of them are pretty important, because they may cause compatibility issues with outdated Plugins.
Let’s look into the details of what’s new.
- Migrate to Rails 6.1 with Zeitwerk autoloading.
- Introduced CommonMark Markdown (GitHub Flavored) formatter as an alternative to existing Markdown formatter based on Redcarpet.
- Users can be mentioned now using @ autocomplete by other users with add watchers’ permission.
- Issue custom query: default query per instance, project, and user.
- Default project custom query.
- Ability to add watchers to Wiki pages.
- Issues can now be filtered by notes or by file description.
- The “Contains” operator now supports multiple search items. Using wildcard characters (_ or %) is no longer supported.
- You can enable it only for certain groups or for users with administration rights. Users list contains now the 2FA status as a column and as a filter option.
We shared this list of new features originally on our RedmineUP Blog.
