Releases: micromata/projectforge
Releases · micromata/projectforge
8.1 Release
ProjectForge 8.1
✅ Stability proven - This release has been running stable for many weeks without interruption in two heavily used installations.
New Features
- Menu customization: Drag & drop functionality for personalized menu organization with group-based visibility control
- AI time savings tracking: Calculate and report time savings achieved through AI assistance in timesheets
- Enhanced group management: Description and organization details now visible for non-admins, Excel export includes user emails
- Advanced forecast export: Filtering capabilities by unit, customer, and projects with improved planning data
Improvements
- User experience enhancements: Improved employee registration, modal dialogs support ESC/click-outside closing, better 2FA input
- Excel export functionality: Added to accounting records, timesheets now include AI-savings data
- AG Grid integration: German translations, advanced filtering, sorting, and column pinning
- Enhanced timesheet features: Collision prevention, improved recent entries display with kost2/project/customer info
- Vacation system improvements: Better edge case handling for remaining days from previous year
- Cost search functionality: Support for plain number string searches
- Sipgate synchronization: Configurable cron job scheduling for contact sync
- History system: Administrative comments support for user/group changes
Technology
- Critical fixes: JCR memory leak resolved in DataTransfer module, Wicket session store increased from 100kB to 2MB
- Framework updates: Wicket 10.5.0, Spring framework updates, enhanced dependency management
- Performance improvements: Multiple deadlock resolutions in caching/logging components
- Database enhancements: Flyway migration improvements, enhanced sanity checks with automated error reporting
- Security updates: Tomcat 10.1.33 → 10.1.39 (CVE fixes), improved access control and CSRF protection
- React/JavaScript: Router dependency fixes, improved component stability and rendering
- Build system: Gradle optimizations, enhanced test framework, source headers updated to 2025
Download
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:8.1 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
You may also download the releases from Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pforge/files/ProjectForge/
Release 8.0
New Features
Improvements
- Own CardDav-Implementation for synchronization of contacts (tested with Apple contacts (macOS/iOS), Thunderbird).
- Sipgate interface implemented for synchronization of address.
- Calendar view improved.
- Excel-Export of vacations for all employees, teams and colleagues.
- Birthdaybutler for monthly birthday list.
- Export of timesheets as xlsx.
- Attachments to books added.
- lots of minor improvements.
- Several minor bugfixes
Technical stuff
- Docker container available for arm64 as well as for amd64 (Linux and macOS X).
- Persistence layer completely refactored, MGC removed and replaced by Spring Data JPA.
- technical debt reduced.
- New major versions: Java 17, Spring 6.1.15, Hibernate 6.6.3, Hibernate search 7.2.1, javax -> jakarta, React/Router, Wicket 10.2, ...
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:8.0 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Sourceforge
You may also download the releases from Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pforge/files/ProjectForge/
Release 7.5
New Features
Improvements
- The main calendar refactored (colors, functionalities, more customizable etc.)
- Datatransfer-Plugin: Notification improved
- Vacations: support now multiple substitutions, shows conflicts
- History of changes improved.
- 2FA-requests preserve now input fields.
- lots of minor improvements.
- user/group administration in new version.
Security
- Issues of security pen test
Bug fixes and improvements
- Several minor bugfixes
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.5 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.4
New Features
- 2FA (use SMS, mail, Authenticator app or Webauthn/Fido2 as 2nd factor for much more security.)
- Password reset for users implemented (it’s only usable for users with configured 2FA / mail isn’t supported for password reset due to security reasons).
- Scripts may be executed by users/groups without special rights (sudo functionality is supported). You may configure reports e. g. for project managers including financial data.
- mass update and selection of invoices for e. g. bank transfers etc.
- Datatransfer:
- Multiple upload with progress bars implemented. Very nice.
- Multi selection of files for deletion and download.
- Audit on areas added (for seeing what happened)
- E-mail notifications improved: files being deleted and audit log on areas.
- Password reset for users: Admins may enter cell numbers of users to enable password for users without any configured 2FA.
Improvements
- CSRF-Handling: if session token was changed, the user is able to simply reload the page for continuing.
- mass update functionality refactored and improved.
- pagination for result lists of new UI introduced.
Security
- 2FA is now fully supported. You may configure:
- 2FA after login (expires after x days after if stay-logged-in is used)
- 2FA expiry time (from 1 minute to 90 days) for special usage (e. g. user administration, password changing, financial stuff etc.)
Bug fixes and improvements
- Several minor bugfixes
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.2 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.3
New Features
- Combination of DataTransfer and Merlin: Serial PDFs/Words may be automatically generated and sent to the personal boxes of the users/employees.
Improvements
- Combination of DataTransfer and Merlin: Serial PDFs/Words may be automatically generated and sent to the personal boxes of the users/employees.
- Scripting functionalities improved.
Security and privcay protection
- Data protections improvements.
- 2FA introduced (will be improved soon).
Bug fixes and improvements
- Several minor bugfixes
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.2 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.2
New Features
- Word-Templating (Merlin): Word templating for letters, information, contracts etc. with serial execution including variables, if-else-expressions etc. inside docx (like Velocity-Scripting-engine). All users/emloyees may receive letters/contracts etc. (as Word and/or PDF-files) in ther personal boxes via serial execution.
example template files included for a quick start. - Log viewer added (for admins as well as for users for tracking own activity for mass updates of time-sheets, usage of Merlin or Datev-imports)
Improvements
- DataTransfer-Plugin: encryption added
- Exporting SEPA-cash transfers improved: special characters unsupported by banking software will be replaced/removed.
Security and privcay protection
- Features for deleting data such as addresses, employee, vacataion data etc. implemented due to privacy restrictions in the EU. The deletion includes also history entries.
- using char[] instead of String for passwords.
Bug fixes and improvements
- Several minor bugfixes
- Search for deleted entries (addresses etc.) fixed.
- Search in history entries (keywords, users) fixed.
Improvements for admins
- No restart after first installation required anymore.
- During Shutdown some temporarily created directories (tomcat.* and projectforge-application*) will be deleted automatically.
- Gender for users added: Used by Merlin (word templating) for creation of personalized letters, contracts etc.
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.2 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.1.2
Security issues of pentests, DataTransfer improved
New Features
- The DataTransfer tool is improved: download area in one zip, more options for external users.
Security
- A pentest was done by Micromata GmbH. Some security fixes were done.
Bug fixes and improvements
- Several minor bugfixes and improvements (order book etc.)
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.1.1 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.1.1
New Features
- Data transfer: Personal box of every user for fast exchange of large files one to one.
Improvements
- Docker improved.
Technologies
- Update of all JavaScript libs (React etc.)
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.1.1 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Release 7.1.0
New Features
- checksums for all files in data transfer as well as nightly run of sanity job.
Improvements
- CardDAV support improved (cell phone numbers)
- Test data in test systems: no more unique constraint violations anymore on new test systems.
Technologies
- Support of Java 13+.
- Major updates of nearly all libraries.
- Multi tenancy removed.
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker hub: micromata/projectforge:7.1.0 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)
Major release 7.0.0
New Features
- New front-end
- Data transfer tool for sharing files with other user's and external customers
- New plugin: skill matrix for sharing knowledge.
- Tons of new functionalities and improvements.
Technologies
- Available as Docker images for fastest installation ever.
- Setup wizard for easy setup.
- New front-end works with React.
- Over 20% of the code is now developed with Kotlin.
- Full Rest support for most functionality for other clients (such as a smartphone app).
Docker
You can download the binaries from Docker Hub: micromata/projectforge:7.0.0 (https://hub.docker.com/r/micromata/projectforge)