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Release Notes

A Forgejo release is published shortly after a Gitea release is published and they have matching release numbers. Additional Forgejo releases may be published to address urgent security issues or bug fixes. Forgejo release notes include all Gitea release notes.

The Forgejo admin should carefully read the required manual actions before upgrading. A point release (e.g. v1.19.1 or v1.19.2) does not require manual actions but others might (e.g. v1.18.0, v1.19.0).

DRAFT 1.19.0-0

These are draft release notes for the upcoming Forgejo v1.19.0-0 release. They are improved while release candidates are made available for testing in the https://codeberg.org/forgejo-experimental organization. Contributions are welcome! Read more...

The complete list of commits included in the Forgejo v1.19.0-0 release can be reviewed from the command line with:

$ git clone https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/
$ git -C forgejo log --oneline --no-merges origin/v1.18/forgejo..origin/v1.19/forgejo

Breaking changes

Support scoped access tokens

Forgejo access token, used with the API can now have a "scope" that limits what it can access. Existing tokens stored in the database and created before Forgejo v1.19 had unlimited access. For backward compatibility, their access will remain the same and they will continue to work as before.

However, newly created token that do not specify a scope will now only have read-only access to public user profile and public repositories.

For instance, the /users/{username}/tokens API endpoint will require the scopes: ['all', 'sudo'] parameter and the forgejo admin user generate-access-token will require the --scopes all,sudo argument obtain tokens with ulimited access as before for admin users.

The the following scopes are supported:

Name Description
(no scope) Grants read-only access to public user profile and public repositories.
repo Full control over all repositories.
    repo:status Grants read/write access to commit status in all repositories.
    public_repo Grants read/write access to public repositories only.
admin:repo_hook Grants access to repository hooks of all repositories. This is included in the repo scope.
    write:repo_hook Grants read/write access to repository hooks
    read:repo_hook Grants read-only access to repository hooks
admin:org Grants full access to organization settings
    write:org Grants read/write access to organization settings
    read:org Grants read-only access to organization settings
admin:public_key Grants full access for managing public keys
    write:public_key Grant read/write access to public keys
    read:public_key Grant read-only access to public keys
admin:org_hook Grants full access to organizational-level hooks
notification Grants full access to notifications
user Grants full access to user profile info
    read:user Grants read access to user's profile
    user:email Grants read access to user's email addresses
    user:follow Grants access to follow/un-follow a user
delete_repo Grants access to delete repositories as an admin
package Grants full access to hosted packages
    write:package Grants read/write access to packages
    read:package Grants read access to packages
    delete:package Grants delete access to packages
admin:gpg_key Grants full access for managing GPG keys
    write:gpg_key Grants read/write access to GPG keys
    read:gpg_key Grants read-only access to GPG keys
admin:application Grants full access to manage applications
    write:application Grants read/write access for managing applications
    read:application Grants read access for managing applications
sudo Allows to perform actions as the site admin.

Repositories: by default disable all units except code and pulls on forks

When forking a repository, the fork will now have issues, projects, releases, packages and wiki disabled. These can be enabled in the repository settings afterwards. To change back to the previous default behavior, configure DEFAULT_FORK_REPO_UNITS to be the same value as DEFAULT_REPO_UNITS.

Remove ONLY_SHOW_RELEVANT_REPOS setting

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Remove deprecated DSA host key from Docker Container

Since OpenSSH 7.0 and greater similarly disable the ssh-dss (DSA) public key algorithm, and recommend against its use. http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html

Webhook authorization header

Any webhook can now specify an Authorization header to be sent along every request.

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Additional restrictions on valid user names

The algorithm for validating user names was modified and some users may have invalid names. The command forgejo doctor --run check-user-names will list all of them so they can be renamed.

If a Forgejo instance has users or organizations named forgejo-actions and gitea-actions, they will also need to be renamed before the upgrade. They are now reserved names for the experimental internal CI/CD named Actions.

Features

Documentation

The first version of the Forgejo documentation is available and covers the administration of Forgejo, from installation to troubleshooting.

Incoming emails

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Secrets

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Packages registries

Option to prohibit fork if user reached maximum limit of repositories

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Scoped labels

Labels that contain a forward slash (/) separator are displayed with a slightly different color before and after the separator, as a visual aid. The first part of the label defines its "scope".

Label list

When creating a label with a scope, it is possible to make it exclusive.

New label

Such an exclusive label cannot be used at the same time as other labels in the same scope. In this example only one of the the exclusive labels forgejo/ui and forgejo/i18n can be selected and is shown with a leading dot. Multiple non exclusive labels can be selected and are shown with a leading checkmark.

New label

Support org/user level projects

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Map OIDC groups to Orgs/Teams

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RSS Feed for Releases and Tags

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Supports wildcard protected branch

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Garbage collect LFS

Add a doctor command for full garbage collection of LFS: forgejo doctor --run gc-lfs.

Additions to the API

Support disabling database auto migration

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Repository setting to enable/disable releases unit

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Actions: an experimental CI/CD

It appears for the first time in this Forgejo release but is not yet fit for production. It is not fully implemented and may be insecure. However, as long as it is not enabled, it presents no risk to existing Forgejo instances.

If a repository has a file such as .forgejo/workflows/test.yml, it will be interpreted, for instance to run tests and verify the code in the repository works as expected (Continuous Integration). It can also be used to create HTML pages for a website and publish them (Continous Deployment). The syntax is similar to GitHub Actions and the jobs can be controled from the Forgejo web interface. Read more...

Actions

User Interface improvements

Add "Copy link" button for new uploads

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PR Review Box UI

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Copy citation file content in APA and BibTex format

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Display asciicast

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Attention blocks within quote blocks for Note and Warning

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Support for commit cross references

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Enable @- completion popup on the release description textarea

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Preview images for Issue cards in Project Board view

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Add "Copy" button to file view of raw text

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Setting to allow edits on PRs by maintainers

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Container images upgraded to Alpine 3.17

The Forgejo container images are now based on Alpine 3.17 instead of Alpine 3.16. It includes an upgrade from git 2.36.5 to git 2.38.4 and from openssh 9.0p1 to openssh 9.1p1.

1.18.5-0

This stable release contains an important security fix for Forgejo to raise the protection against brute force attack on hashed passwords stored in the database to match industry standards, as described in detail in a companion blog post.

Recommended Action

We strongly recommend that all Forgejo installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

If PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO is explicitly set in app.ini, comment it out so that the stronger algorithm is used instead.

All password hashes stored with another algorithm will be updated to the new algorithm on the next usage of this password (e.g. a user provides the password to the Forgejo server when they login). It does not require manual intervention.

Forgejo

Gitea

Note that there is no Forgejo v1.18.4-N because Gitea v1.18.4 was replaced by Gitea v1.18.5 a few days after its release because of a regression. Forgejo was not affected.

1.18.3-2

This stable release includes a security fix for git and bug fixes.

Git

Git recently announced new versions to address two CVEs (CVE-2023-22490, CVE-2023-23946). On 14 Februrary 2023, Git published the maintenance release v2.39.2, together with releases for older maintenance tracks v2.38.4, v2.37.6, v2.36.5, v2.35.7, v2.34.7, v2.33.7, v2.32.6, v2.31.7, and v2.30.8. All major GNU/Linux distributions also provide updated packages via their security update channels.

We recommend that all installations running a version affected by the issues described below are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

  • When using a Forgejo binary: upgrade the git package to a version greater or equal to v2.39.2, v2.38.4, v2.37.6, v2.36.5, v2.35.7, v2.34.7, v2.33.7, v2.32.6, v2.31.7 or v2.30.8
  • When using a Forgejo container image: docker pull codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:1.18.3-2

Forgejo

Gitea

1.18.3-1

This stable release includes bug fixes.

Forgejo

Gitea

1.18.3-0

This stable release includes bug fixes.

Forgejo

Gitea

1.18.2-1

This stable release includes a security fix. It was possible to reveal a user's email address, which is problematic because users can choose to hide their email address from everyone. This was possible because the notification email for a repository transfer request to an organization included every user's email address in the owner team. This has been fixed by sending individual emails instead and the code was refactored to prevent it from happening again.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Gitea

1.18.2-0

This stable release includes bug fixes.

Gitea

1.18.1-0

This is the first Forgejo stable point release.

Forgejo

Critical security update for Git

Git recently announced new versions to address two CVEs (CVE-2022-23521, CVE-2022-41903). On 17 January 2023, Git published the maintenance release v2.39.1, together with releases for older maintenance tracks v2.38.3, v2.37.5, v2.36.4, v2.35.6, v2.34.6, v2.33.6, v2.32.5, v2.31.6, and v2.30.7. All major GNU/Linux distributions also provide updated packages via their security update channels.

We strongly recommend that all installations running a version affected by the issues described below are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

  • When using a Forgejo binary: upgrade the git package to a version greater or equal to v2.39.1, v2.38.3, v2.37.5, v2.36.4, v2.35.6, v2.34.6, v2.33.6, v2.32.5, v2.31.6, or v2.30.7
  • When using a Forgejo container image: docker pull codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:1.18.1-0

Read more in the Forgejo blog.

Release process stability

The release process based on Woodpecker CI was entirely reworked to be more resilient to transient errors. A new release is first uploaded into the new Forgejo experimental organization for testing purposes.

Automated end to end testing of releases was implemented with a full development cycle including the creation of a new repository and a run of CI. It relieves the user and developer from the burden of tedious manual testing.

Container environment variables

When running a container, all environment variables starting with FORGEJO__ can be used instead of GITEA__. For backward compatibility with existing scripts, it is still possible to use GITEA__ instead of FORGEJO__. For instance:

docker run --name forgejo -e FORGEJO__security__INSTALL_LOCK=true codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:1.18.1-0

Forgejo hook types

A new forgejo hook type is available and behaves exactly the same as the existing gitea hook type. It will be used to implement additional features specific to Forgejo in a way that will be backward compatible with Gitea.

X-Forgejo headers

Wherever a X-Gitea header is received or sent, an identical X-Forgejo is added. For instance when a notification mail is sent, the X-Forgejo-Reason header is set to explain why. Or when a webhook is sent, the X-Forgejo-Event header is set with push, tag, etc. for Woodpecker CI to decide on an action.

Look and feel fixes

The Forgejo theme was modified to take into account user feedback.

Gitea

1.18.0-1

This is the first Forgejo release.

Forgejo improvements

Woodpecker CI

A new CI configuration based on Woodpecker CI was created. It is used to:

Look and feel

The default themes were replaced by Forgejo themes and the landing page was modified to display the Forgejo logo and names but the look and feel remains otherwise identical to Gitea.

Landing page

Privacy

Gitea instances fetch https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/version.json weekly by default, which raises privacy concerns. In Forgejo this feature needs to be explicitly activated at installation time or by modifying the configuration file. Forgejo also provides an alternative RSS feed to be informed when a new release is published.

Gitea

1.18.0-0

This release was replaced by 1.18.0-1 a few hours after being published because the release process was interrupted.

1.18.0-rc1-2

This is the first Forgejo release candidate.