Main features¶

Multiple projects support

• Manage all your projects with one Redmine instance
• Each user can have a different role on each project
• Each project can be declared as public (visible by anyone) or private (visible by project members only)
• Modules (eg. wiki, repository, issue tracking, ...) can be enabled/disabled at project level

Multiple subproject support

• Manage related project parts as subprojects of a main project.

Flexible role based access control

• Define your own roles and set their permissions in a click

Flexible issue tracking system

• Define you own statuses and issue types
• Workflow transitions can be set up for each issue type and role through the web-based administration interface (a default configuration can be loaded when installing the application)

Gantt chart and calendar

• Automatic gantt and calendar based on issues start and due dates

Time tracking functionality

• Time can be entered at project or ticket level
• Simple report to view time per user, issue type, category or activity

Custom fields

• You can define your own custom fields for issues, time-entries, projects and users
• Differents formats are available: text, date, boolean, integers, drop-down lists and checkboxes
• Custom fields can be displayed on the issue list and used as filters just like regular fields

News, documents & files management

• You can easily post messages and share files

Per project wiki and forums

• Wiki uses textile syntax and free linking within the wiki using brackets
• Diff and annotate views are available

Repository browser and diff viewer

• Existing repositories can be attached to each of your projects
• Redmine lets you browse their contents, view and search changesets
• Diff and annotate (aka blame) viewer
• Supported SCM: Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, Darcs and Bazaar

Feeds & email notifications

• Project activity, changesets, news, issues, issue changes are available as Atom feeds

Multiple LDAP authentication support

• Redmine lets you authenticate users against multiple LDAP
• Accounts can be created on-the-fly when a user is found in the directory (optional)

User self-registration support

• Optionally, you can allow users to register online
• 3 account activation methods are available: automatic (no confirmation required), manual (by administrators) or through an auto generated URL sent via email

Multilanguage support

Thanks to many contributors, Redmine is yet available in the following thirty-four languages:

• Bosnian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• Galician
• German
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Taiwanese
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

Multiple databases support

• Redmine runs with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite

Feature requests¶

See the list of requested features.