Changelog 5.0.x¶

5.1.0 (2023-10-31)¶

[Accounts / authentication]¶

• Defect #6254: Remove "Unknown user" notification on password request with non-existent email address
• Defect #36969: EmailAddress regex matches invalid email addresses
• Feature #33660: Information text on sudo password entry
• Feature #35450: Better validation error message when the domain of email is not allowed
• Feature #37679: Raise the maximum length of the last name to 255 characters

[Administration]¶

• Defect #37692: Plugins page does not have a table header
• Feature #33422: Re-implement admin project list using ProjectQuery system
• Feature #36691: Background job and dedicated status for project deletion
• Feature #36695: Add check in Redmine information page if default queue adapter is used in production
• Feature #36891: Ask more specific confirmation questions when closing/reopening/archiving projects
• Feature #37674: Upgrade Admin/Users list to use the query system

[Attachments]¶

• Feature #38168: WebP images support
• Patch #37597: Don't create two thumbnails of different resolutions for a single image

[Calendar]¶

• Feature #27346: Use the new pagination style for the calendars view
• Feature #33682: Display calendar in vertical list layout on mobile screens

[Code cleanup/refactoring]¶

• Defect #15667: Fix shadowing variable in ApplicationHelper#textilizable
• Defect #20042: A test fail when running it with PostgreSQL
• Defect #37389: Add missing fixture to JournalObserverTest
• Defect #37586: Typo in method names
• Defect #37587: Unnecessary requirement in /lib/redmine/scm/adapters/filesystem_adapter.rb
• Defect #38145: Unreachable branch in ApplicationHelper#format_object due to the use of the deprecated Fixnum class
• Defect #38250: config/settings.yml not closed in Setting.load_available_settings
• Defect #39180: Fix an intermittent test failure in JournalTest
• Feature #37119: Drop redcarpet dependency for common_mark formatter
• Patch #36844: Cleanup orphaned query and role ids from habtm join table queries_roles
• Patch #37448: Add missing fixture users to RoleTest
• Patch #37451: Add missing fixture versions to IssuesPdfHelperTest
• Patch #37466: Add missing fixture issue_categories to VersionTest
• Patch #37469: Add missing fixture versions to RepositoryTest
• Patch #37470: Add missing fixture versions to MailHandlerControllerTest
• Patch #37477: Add missing fixture issue_categories to MyControllerTest
• Patch #37482: Replace JQuery `.focus()` method with HTML `autofocus` attribute
• Patch #37507: Normalize HTML in app/views/settings/_users.html.erb
• Patch #37591: Use start_with? or end_with? to check the first or last character of a string
• Patch #37599: Remove extra call of Attachment#thumbnailable? in AttachmentsController#thumbnail
• Patch #37614: Cleanup app/models/repository/git.rb
• Patch #37657: Rename Repository#supports_all_revisions? to Repository#supports_history?
• Patch #37668: Fix bad I18n `t` call in macro error handler
• Patch #37682: Add the `# frozen_string_literal: true` magic comment to config/initializers/secret_token.rb
• Patch #37851: Add missing fixture to test/integration/issue_test.rb
• Patch #37974: Database migration to remove unused "mention_users" permission
• Patch #38054: Remove unused i18n keys label_sort_highest, label_sort_higher, label_sort_lower, and label_sort_lowest
• Patch #38091: Fix redundant 'private' modifier in repositories_git_controller_test.rb
• Patch #38093: Use require_relative instead of generating the full path for a file
• Patch #38139: Add guard clause to time_tag method to handle nil time
• Patch #38228: Remove X-UA-Compatible meta tag for Internet Explorer
• Patch #38478: Remove unused i18n key label_last_login
• Patch #38496: Add missing fixtures to SearchControllerTest
• Patch #38646: Remove unused locale entry: label_optgroup_others
• Patch #38772: <=> should return nil when invoked with an incomparable object
• Patch #39021: Add ".byebug_history" to svn:ignore, .gitignore, and .hgignore
• Patch #39066: Remove set_language_if_valid from MyController
• Patch #39109: Improving Test Reliability with Capybara Assertions
• Patch #39184: Cleanup debug code in app/models/mail_handler.rb
• Patch #39207: Replace `YAML.load` with `YAML.load_file` in locales.rake and improve error reporting for invalid YAML files

[Custom fields]¶

• Patch #37750: Use existing html pipeline based sanitization for links in custom fields

[Email notifications]¶

• Feature #2746: Send out issue priority in the email notification header
• Feature #34302: Show parent issues in notification email
• Feature #38238: Auto watch issues on issue creation

[Email receiving]¶

• Feature #38263: Try importing journal replies as issue reply where applicable
• Feature #38273: Improve errors in MailHandler: add MissingContainer and LockedTopic exception
• Feature #38274: Receive e-mail replies to news and news comments
• Patch #38408: Remove experimental flag from "Preferred part of multipart (HTML) emails" setting

[Filters]¶

• Feature #38435: "contains any of" operator for text filters to perform OR search of multiple terms
• Feature #38456: OR search with multiple terms for "starts with" and "ends with" filter operators

[Gems support]¶

• Patch #36919: Update RuboCop to 1.57
• Patch #37236: Update Rouge to 4.2
• Patch #37247: Update RuboCop Performance to 1.19
• Patch #37248: Update RuboCop Rails to 2.22
• Patch #37401: Update I18n to 1.14
• Patch #37525: Update Pg to 1.5
• Patch #37558: Update webdrivers to 5.0
• Patch #37656: Update sqlite3 gem to 1.5
• Patch #37993: Update Mail gem to 2.8
• Patch #38121: Update MiniMagick to 4.12
• Patch #38122: Remove Bundler from requirements
• Patch #38124: Update csv, net-imap, net-pop, and net-smtp gems to the same versions shipped with Ruby 3.2.0
• Patch #38137: Update SimpleCov to 0.22
• Patch #38181: Update Nokogiri to 1.15.2
• Patch #38187: Update SQLite3 gem to 1.6
• Patch #38220: Update Redcarpet to 3.6
• Patch #39211: Update roadie-rails to 3.1

[I18n]¶

• Defect #38509: Untranslated string "OK" in the repository browser
• Feature #37878: Allow using ideographic space (U+3000) as a separator for search terms
• Patch #38529: Limit available locales to those defined by Redmine itself

[Importers]¶

• Feature #36823: Allow to import time entries for issues in different projects

[Issues]¶

• Defect #38458: Display order of watchers in the sidebar is indeterminate
• Defect #38493: The related issues count on the issue view is not updated after deleting one of the related issues
• Defect #39186: Missing synchronization between watchers and watcher_users for unsaved objects
• Feature #2568: Description for issue statuses
• Feature #16207: Use query name as the file name when exporting queries
• Feature #31505: Mark edited journal notes as "Edited"
• Feature #37362: CSV export of issues report
• Feature #37532: Add CSS class for relation type to related issues list
• Feature #37621: Add field separator option to CSV export dialog
• Feature #38416: Ability to disable the priority field
• Patch #38820: Retry in case of stale issue during Issue.update_versions

[Issues filter]¶

• Feature #38301: Multiple issue ids in "Related to" filter
• Feature #38402: "Any searchable text" filter for issues
• Feature #38527: New issues filter operators "has been", "has never been", and "changed from"

[Issues workflow]¶

• Defect #37635: Respect Role#consider_workflow? when checking for allowed status transitions
• Patch #37636: Ignore statuses if workflow only defines identity transition

[News]¶

• Feature #2631: Add breadcrumbs to news pages

[PDF export]¶

• Feature #38368: WebP images support in PDF output

[Performance]¶

• Patch #29171: Add an index to improve the performance of issue queries involving custom fields
• Patch #37057: Query optimization for attachments activity
• Patch #37528: Don't load changesets when IssuesController#show processes API requests without "include=changesets"
• Patch #37687: Retrieve attachments with a single query when rendering a journal
• Patch #38146: Fix all performance-related RuboCop offenses
• Patch #38198: Improve MySQL query plan for Project#project_condition
• Patch #38319: Optimize IssueQuery#sql_for_assigned_to_role_field for PostgreSQL performance
• Patch #38474: Preload default_status when listing trackers

[Permissions and roles]¶

• Feature #37807: Allow access to /robots.txt even if logins are required
• Feature #38048: Introduce permission to set a project public

[Plugin API]¶

• Defect #31116: Database migrations don't run correctly for plugins when specifying the `VERSION` env variable
• Defect #38707: Fix order of loading plugins' config/routes.rb
• Feature #38730: Generate snake-case file name by redmine_plugin_migration

[REST API]¶

• Defect #38668: Unable to retrieve custom fields set as "For all projects" via Projects API
• Feature #37617: Add description field to custom fields API
• Feature #39113: Add missing Homepage attribute in Projects API response

[Rails support]¶

• Feature #38216: Add template filenames as comments to HTML output in development mode

[Roadmap]¶

• Feature #36679: Export a version as changelog text

[Ruby support]¶

• Feature #37159: Drop Ruby 2.5 support
• Feature #38099: Add Ruby 3.2 support
• Feature #38134: Drop Ruby 2.6 support

[SCM]¶

• Feature #35432: Git: View annotation prior to the change

[Search engine]¶

• Feature #38459: Support "My bookmarks" in the search
• Feature #38481: Further narrow search results with issues filter

[Text formatting]¶

• Feature #34863: Change default text formatter for new installations from textile to common_mark
• Patch #36807: Remove CommonMark experimental flag and mark as deprecated the RedCarpet Markdown

[Third-party libraries]¶

• Feature #39400: Migrate Stylelint to 15.11.0
• Patch #37538: Update Chart.js to 3.9.1
• Patch #38162: Update jQuery UI Datepicker i18n files to 1.13.2

[Time tracking]¶

• Feature #10314: Make the only enabled activity in a project the default one for time entry
• Feature #27821: "Issue's subject" filter for spent time
• Feature #29286: Add default spent time activity per role
• Feature #37623: Add Parent task filter and column to Spent time

[Translations]¶

• Defect #38477: Fix the English and Japanese translations of field_last_login_on
• Defect #38871: Fix mistranslation of label_board_sticky in Spanish translation
• Feature #34924: Add Tamil language support
• Feature #36938: Update translations of field_principal to User or Group
• Patch #32435: Change Russian translation for "Submit"

[UI]¶

• Feature #1069: Open Help in a separate tab
• Feature #36908: Improve wording on password change form
• Feature #38231: Limit the year to 4 digits in date input
• Patch #38449: Align buttons in modal dialogs to the left instead of right

[UI - Responsive]¶

• Patch #38360: Do not apply table-layout:fixed in potentially wide tables of detailed issue reports

[Wiki]¶

• Defect #34634: Deletion of project wiki leaves the project wiki inaccessible (404) until module reactivation