OpenProject 17.5.0

Release date: 2026-05-21

We released OpenProject 17.5.0. The release contains several bug fixes and we recommend updating to the newest version. In these Release Notes, we will give an overview of important feature changes. At the end, you will find a complete list of all changes and bug fixes.

Important feature changes

Important updates and breaking changes

Bug fixes and changes

  • Feature: Track working hours and availabilities for each user in the system [#34911]
  • Feature: Meeting series: Add monthly scheduling options [#61522]
  • Feature: Debounce emails for meetings [#66645]
  • Feature: Primerize Types form configuration page [#69524]
  • Feature: Sprint goals [#71059]
  • Feature: Exclude certain work package types from automated backlog (per project) [#71305]
  • Feature: Administration setting for project-based work package identifiers [#71633]
  • Feature: Background job for converting project-based semantic work package identifiers [#71645]
  • Feature: Allow nested Groups to show a company org chart [#72224]
  • Feature: Workflows UX improvement: Allow multi-selection of roles in workflow [#72242]
  • Feature: Jira Migrator imports project-based semantic work item identifiers [#72427]
  • Feature: Allow inline Work Package links within text paragraphs [#72817]
  • Feature: Container header (Sprint/Bucket/Inbox) restyling [#72945]
  • Feature: Restyled work package card in "Backlogs and sprints" view [#73089]
  • Feature: Adapt creation of projects through the API for semantic identifiers [#73175]
  • Feature: Define database model for project-based work package identifiers [#73315]
  • Feature: Create work package links through # notation in documents / BlockNote [#73664]
  • Feature: Adapt work package show view for project-based semantic work package identifiers [#73716]
  • Feature: Adapt work package lists for project-based semantic work package identifiers [#73717]
  • Feature: Adapt routes for project-based semantic work package identifiers [#73756]
  • Feature: Search work packages by their identifier [#73761]
  • Feature: Adapt email notifications for project-based work package identifiers [#73827]
  • Feature: Create a WorkPackageCard component [#73968]
  • Feature: Extend the SubHeader component to support quick filter components [#73972]
  • Feature: Adapt work package link blocks in BlockNote for project-based semantic work package identifiers [#74115]
  • Feature: Adapt work package links in CKEditor for project-based semantic work package identifiers [#74116]
  • Feature: Bring sprint sharing (SAFe) to corporate plan [#74147]
  • Feature: Adapt GitHub and GitLab modules for semantic identifiers [#74364]
  • Feature: Adapt work package PDF exports for semantic identifiers [#74366]
  • Feature: Expand work package mentions (##, ###) macros inside CKEditor [#74641]
  • Feature: Allow Custom Fields on UserQuery [#74758]
  • Feature: Primerize users administration to allow all filters [#74763]
  • Feature: Jira Migrator supports due date, estimated hours and remaining hours. [#74807]
  • Feature: Add better progress indicator to identifier conversion page [#74903]
  • Feature: Put "Beta" label on the setting for enabling semantic identifiers [#74975]
  • Feature: Admin panel for releasing old classic project aliases [#74992]
  • Bugfix: WP table configuration: overflow due to the very long CF label [#46005]
  • Bugfix: Tooltip on Team planner not entirely visible [#48223]
  • Bugfix: Work package configuration dialog's highlighting tab has no space between radio buttons and labels [#64359]
  • Bugfix: Misalignment of fields in Work estimates and progress when language=DE [#65738]
  • Bugfix: Wrong calendar week in My time tracking [#68272]
  • Bugfix: Asterisks on Project attributes displaced [#68633]
  • Bugfix: Clicking work package tabs triggers page reload and flickering [#69210]
  • Bugfix: Infinite SAML Seeding Loop Causing Disk Space Exhaustion [#69339]
  • Bugfix: Mobile - Include project on WP list is missing spacing [#69451]
  • Bugfix: Roles selectable as "Role given to a non-admin user who creates a project" that lack essential permissions [#69496]
  • Bugfix: Fix accessibility errors found by ERB Lint [#70166]
  • Bugfix: BlockNote: Drag and drop of table blocks broken [#71900]
  • Bugfix: Connection error on successive navigation to and from a document [#71901]
  • Bugfix: Impossible to search for archived projects, page reverts to active projects list on its own [#71971]
  • Bugfix: Click position is lost when activating an inline edit field [#72837]
  • Bugfix: Incorrect confirmation message when deleting a OAuth token [#72958]
  • Bugfix: Role not created properly when unselecting all permissions [#73494]
  • Bugfix: POST/PATCH/DELETE requests to APIv3 return unauthorized [#73499]
  • Bugfix: Copy & Paste Loses Formatting in Documents [#73669]
  • Bugfix: Not possible to follow link custom field from work package list view [#73673]
  • Bugfix: Doubled scrollbar on a Board [#73714]
  • Bugfix: Jira migrator: "An internal error has occurred" [#73736]
  • Bugfix: Nextcloud integration shows "No connection to Nextcloud" for folders that have "&" in the name [#73855]
  • Bugfix: Lists of work packages should sort correctly by semantic id [#74156]
  • Bugfix: Automatically converting project identifiers should not lead to usage of reserved keywords [#74161]
  • Bugfix: Moving work packages after switching to semantic and back should not lead to errors [#74192]
  • Bugfix: Cancel occurence action item is called 'Delete' on My Meetings page and Meeting index page 'Past' tab [#74303]
  • Bugfix: User cannot restore a cancelled occurrence if series has a deleted WP on the agenda [#74304]
  • Bugfix: Show default section more clearly when using the section selector for a meeting with no sections [#74321]
  • Bugfix: Inserting "#" inside text removes content after cursor [#74325]
  • Bugfix: Сards converting to hash links on copy-paste and DnD [#74327]
  • Bugfix: Type colors are not applied correctly at the beginning [#74330]
  • Bugfix: Impossible to open work packages list from the sidebar after visiting team planner [#74331]
  • Bugfix: Inconsistent contrast for type colors when switching themes [#74332]
  • Bugfix: Dropdown option order changes depending on selected item [#74333]
  • Bugfix: Inconsistent inline chip heights in text flow [#74341]
  • Bugfix: User can only delete a past occurrence [#74363]
  • Bugfix: Inline work package chip has no visual highlight when selected [#74385]
  • Bugfix: Arrow-down selection for link work package block prevented by tooltip [#74393]
  • Bugfix: Wrong cursor placement after inserting links to Work Packages in BlockNote [#74397]
  • Bugfix: Copy/paste of a single block(chip) does not work [#74538]
  • Bugfix: Roles select panel button should be "Apply" [#74560]
  • Bugfix: Use memory more efficiently [#74579]
  • Bugfix: After migration job is complete save button is visible and clicking it triggers a 404 [#74623]
  • Bugfix: Improve size menu and remove L+XL blocks [#74651]
  • Bugfix: Admin page for semantic IDs: grammatical issue [#74681]
  • Bugfix: Semantic ids: semantic identifier mismatch for new-1 [#74692]
  • Bugfix: Black font in dark mode on wp description [#74697]
  • Bugfix: Admin page for semantic IDs: long ids cause overflow [#74730]
  • Bugfix: Add upcoming/past filter to meetings index page filters [#74743]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID still in the URL of the link opened from the email notification [#74760]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID in the email notification after adding watchers [#74762]
  • Bugfix: Closed work packages are still considered to be part of the bucket. [#74773]
  • Bugfix: Redirect to /login is missing the URL query params [#74778]
  • Bugfix: Inconsistent handling of "Definition of Done" [#74796]
  • Bugfix: Spanish (ES) localization mixes formal and informal second-person forms [#74817]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID copied instead of semantic ID in "Copy work package ID" on Backlogs page [#74826]
  • Bugfix: Search with ID doesn't work in work package table configuration if work package belongs to another project [#74830]
  • Bugfix: Quick filters don't react good to medium screen sizes [#74832]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID in URL of the wp link when opened from search results [#74834]
  • Bugfix: Semantic ID is not shown in search results in different places [#74844]
  • Bugfix: Missing space between user avatar and name [#74853]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one in the spent time calendar [#74900]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one on the Activity page [#74912]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one in Roadmap [#74913]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one in bulk edit work packages [#74926]
  • Bugfix: Unable to change a parent on bulk edit of work packages with semantic ID [#74927]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one on the error message on bulk edit [#74928]
  • Bugfix: Show type of field beside the attribute [#74931]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one on the table of related work packages [#74942]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one on the Time and costs report [#74943]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID instead of semantic one on the wp delete confirmation dialogue [#74944]
  • Bugfix: All-numeric project identifiers are not properly handled in classic mode [#74993]
  • Bugfix: Fix markdown generation in Hocuspocus and manual copy to clipboard [#75024]
  • Bugfix: Imprecise error for unallowed IP when testing Jira connection [#75031]
  • Bugfix: Imprecise error for SSL errors when testing Jira connection [#75032]
  • Bugfix: Impossible to go back with single click from the user profile to the users list when a filter is added [#75179]
  • Bugfix: Numeric ID visible in edit mode in links with # [#75180]
  • Bugfix: Backlogs: Missing space on mobile [#75188]
  • Bugfix: No tooltip for priority on the wp cards on the backlogs [#75240]
  • Bugfix: No "Undisclosed" mention for the parent work package on the wp card for a user without permissions to see the parent [#75241]
  • Feature: Provide project templates within new OpenProject instances [#72778]

Contributions

A very special thank you goes to our sponsors for this release. Also a big thanks to our Community members for reporting bugs and helping us identify and provide fixes. Special thanks for reporting and finding bugs go to Walid Ibrahim, billy kenne, Agustín Dall’Alba.

Last but not least, we are very grateful for our very engaged translation contributors on Crowdin, who translated quite a few OpenProject strings! Would you like to help out with translations yourself? Then take a look at our translation guide and find out exactly how you can contribute. It is very much appreciated!