--- title: "What's New in Orangescrum | Cloud, Self-Hosted & Open Source" description: "See what shipped recently in Orangescrum across the Cloud, Self-Hosted, and open source Community editions, with release notes for every version." canonical: https://www.orangescrum.com/whats-new --- # What's New in Orangescrum | Cloud, Self-Hosted & Open Source > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.orangescrum.com/llms.txt). What's new # What's New in _Orangescrum_ Everything we have shipped recently across Cloud, Self-Hosted, and the open source Community Edition. Filter by the edition you run. Self-Hosted**v3.8.10**Cloud**v3.4.0**Open Source**v0.1.0** Self-Hostedv3.8.102026-07-13 ### Document audit log gets a project filter A patch that tightens the document reporting added in the previous two releases. - **Audit log project filter**The document audit log and document settings gain a project filter. People only see the projects they belong to. - **Ageing report fixes**Better grid rendering and text handling in the Document Ageing Report, with corrected sorting and timezones in the CSV and XLSX export. - **Audit log events**The Deletion option is removed from the audit log event filter, and deletion events no longer appear there. Self-Hostedv3.8.92026-07-10 ### Document Ageing Report A new report that shows how long each document sits at every approval stage. - **Document Ageing Report**Measures per stage and total approval age across multi level workflows, for approved and in progress documents. Filter, sort, paginate, and export to CSV or XLSX. It is read only and never touches the approval flow. - **Working day ageing**Approval age can count working days only, skipping weekends and holidays taken from the Attendance and Leave calendar. - **Configurable audit KPIs**Admins choose which activity metrics appear on the document audit log. Self-Hostedv3.8.82026-07-09 ### Approval reminders and overdue escalation Automatic chasing for approvals that have been waiting too long, for both documents and leave. - **Document approval reminders**A scheduled job emails a reminder once an approval passes the threshold you set, then a final escalation notice to the document owner. Each level is chased once. - **Leave approval reminders**Pending leave requests now chase both the applicant and the approver, with a final overdue notice. Approval email times show in the reader's own timezone. - **Approval turn around time**Notified and actioned times are recorded, so the approval progress view shows how long each step took. - **Repository and audit log**Folders and documents sort in natural order, and the audit log gains server side filtering with headline figures. Self-Hostedv3.8.72026-07-07 ### Cleaner file list on tasks and in the repository A focused fix for how task attachments appear in the document repository. - **No duplicate attachments**Files uploaded straight to a task no longer appear a second time as separate document links. Documents you added with Link from DMS still show as before. - **Correct file paths**Task file attachments resolve their file path correctly, and only active tasks are counted. Self-Hostedv3.8.62026-07-06 ### Gantt export runs in the background Large Gantt exports no longer tie up your browser. - **Async Gantt export**PDF and PNG export runs as a queued job with progress tracking, and resumes if you reload the page. You can pick a sprint, a date range, and a scale. - **Gantt task types**The timeline shows task type icons and a clearer task name layout. - **Comment email control**The comment box gains a toggle for which recipients get the notification email. - **Document search and repository**Search query fixes, loading indicators, an approval date column, and MSG added to the allowed file types. Self-Hostedv3.8.52026-07-02 ### Bulk approve documents from a review window Approval and repository navigation improvements in document management. - **Bulk approve with a comment**Approvers can clear several pending documents at once through a review window that captures a comment and an optional supporting file. - **Folder navigation**The repository expands the tree to the folder you are in and keeps the address in step, so going back keeps your place. - **Mention search**Mentions now match on first name, last name, or full name, whatever the capitalisation. Self-Hostedv3.8.42026-07-01 ### Working hours figure and a Gantt epic filter A round of fixes and small additions across attendance, Gantt, and documents. - **Total working hours**The team attendance grid shows a working hours figure next to the clock in and clock out counts. - **Gantt epic filter**Scope the Gantt timeline to a single epic. - **Bulk approve for role approvers**Approvers who hold their place through a role or a role group can now bulk approve documents. - **Email subjects**Subject lines no longer show encoded characters. - **Leave day counts**Holidays are no longer counted in the total days of a leave request. Self-Hostedv3.8.32026-06-29 ### Per tab permissions for test management Finer control over who sees what in test management, plus two optional document approval switches. - **Test management tab permissions**Each of the eleven test management tabs is granted separately from the Roles screen. Owner and Admin always see all of them. - **Document type approval switch**A new setting, off by default, controls whether approval templates are applied automatically by document type. Document type classification itself is unaffected. - **Role group approval switch**A new setting, on by default, lets any holder of an approval role act when no specific person is named on that level. - **Attendance export by location**The team attendance report export now tracks presence per work location. Self-Hostedv3.8.22026-06-26 ### Sidebar repair commands Two admin commands that restore a missing sidebar link after an upgrade. - **Menu repair commands**Run bin/cake dms\_ensure\_menu or bin/cake risk\_ensure\_menu to restore the Documents or Risk Management sidebar link on an upgraded install. Both are safe to run again and offer a dry run. Self-Hostedv3.8.12026-06-25 ### Approval workflows chosen by document type The right approval chain is picked automatically from the document's type. - **Approval by document type**An approval template can be tied to one or more document types, so uploading a contract picks the contract approval chain on its own. A template you choose by hand is no longer overwritten. - **Role scoped approvers**Approver pickers are scoped by role, show full names, and support role groups. - **Accurate attendance counts**The team grid roster counts active users only, correcting the working hours and clock in or clock out figures. Business units can be filtered as a hierarchy. Self-Hostedv3.8.02026-06-24 ### Public API with REST, GraphQL and webhooks A key authenticated public API so external systems can read and write your Orangescrum data. Ships turned off, so nothing changes until an admin enables it. - **REST and GraphQL**Key authenticated REST endpoints plus a single GraphQL endpoint, covering projects, the work item hierarchy, time logs, and test management. - **API key management**Generate, scope, and revoke API keys from an admin screen, with fine grained per key scopes and a rate limiter. - **Outbound webhooks**Subscribe to events, with delivery logging, test and redeliver actions, and a background delivery job. - **Developer portal**A bundled API explorer documents the whole surface. It serves documentation only, never live data. - **Role based access**A permission matrix controls who can manage keys, settings, permissions, and webhooks. Self-Hostedv3.7.22026-06-24 ### Delete permissions for documents Deleting a document is now governed by a role permission, with notice to anyone in the approval chain. - **Delete Documents and Folders**Deleting a document is gated by a role permission, and the old separate folder delete permission folds into a single key. - **Delete notifications**Deleting a document that has an approval workflow can email everyone in its chain. You opt out per document from the upload screen. - **Approval progress panel**A progress panel shows where a document stands across the document views, and empty system folders can be hidden in the repository tree. - **Reminder recipients**Clock in reminders sent direct to staff now respect the same role allow list as the manager digest. Self-Hostedv3.7.12026-06-23 ### Essential SAFe Scaled agile for organisations running several agile teams together. - **Essential SAFe**Agile Release Trains, a WSJF prioritised Epic, Feature and Story backlog with Kanban, PI planning with a program board and ROAM risks, and Inspect and Adapt with five flow metric dashboards. Behind a feature flag, so it stays off until you turn it on. - **Back dated leave**Staff can apply for leave on past dates, within a window the admin sets. - **Attendance dashboard figures**Total working hours plus clock in and clock out user counts, filtered by role group, department, or team. - **Location data in reports**The team attendance report export carries clock in and clock out coordinates and the work location name and address. - **Document folder counts**Folder badges count distinct documents per subtree, and the Delete folder button is removed to prevent accidents. Self-Hostedv3.7.02026-06-19 ### Release management, Outlook, and label customisation Three new modules in one release. - **Version and Release Management**Full version lifecycle, release roll ups, approvals, automatic release notes, a release calendar, dependencies, blackout windows, and a complete audit trail. - **Outlook integration**An Outlook on the Web add in backed by Microsoft Graph, with calendar mapping, email rules, and email to task conversion. - **Label Customizer**Rename interface labels per company, with reusable templates and per language substitution. - **Inline custom fields**Custom fields can be edited directly in the task details panel, and team assignment is surfaced in the task popup. - **Advanced BI offline**Embedded dashboards now load in air gapped deployments, with no external dependency. Self-Hostedv3.6.122026-06-17 ### Assign only to people on the project A small release that tidies task assignment and last week's clock in reminders. - **Team filtered assignment**The team dropdown on the task, epic, and feature popups lists only teams with a member on the project. Picking a team narrows the assignee list to people in both the team and the project. - **Reminder fixes**Correct links in the reminder emails, support for several fallback recipients, a row cap on the manager digest, and corrected scheduling. Self-Hostedv3.6.112026-06-16 ### Clock in reminders Opt in nudges for staff who have not clocked in, and a digest for their manager. - **Clock in reminders**A scheduled job spots staff with no clock in for the working day, emails them, and sends a summary of the misses to their manager. Non working days, leave, and people who have already punched are excluded. Recipients and schedule come from the attendance settings. - **Default view by task type**Each person chooses which task types appear on the project Task page. Tasks are always shown. - **Reviewer comments in emails**Approval emails now include the reviewer's comment where there is one, so the decision has context. Self-Hostedv3.6.102026-06-11 ### Present by default attendance A rework of how each day's attendance status is decided, plus paginated test management lists. - **Present by default**Anyone who punches counts as Present, with a qualifier of Late, Half Day, Partial, or Overtime. Absent now means a true no show. Day credit toward the attendance percentage is proportional or tiered. - **Day finaliser**A scheduled job stamps the final verdict for each person at their own local day close, with a seven day self healing window. Manual entries re-finalise that day at once. - **Leave workflow emails**Application confirmation, approval pending to the approver, and per step progress emails, all customisable from the email templates screen. - **Test management lists**Environments, plans, runs, scenarios, steps, strategies, and suites gain sortable, searchable, paginated lists, and linked epic to feature to story dropdowns. - **Project name encoding**Editing a project name no longer double encodes characters such as an ampersand. Self-Hostedv3.6.92026-06-10 ### Git auto sync and document discussions Git integration works without webhooks, and documents gain files and comments. - **Git auto sync**A scheduled two way sync for installs that providers cannot reach by webhook, plus immediate outbound comment sync to GitHub and GitLab. The old GitHub only plugin is removed, and Git Sync is now the single integration. - **Document files and comments**The document page gains a Files tab for supporting attachments and a Comments tab with mentions. - **Attendance status rules**Set full day hours, the half day threshold, a late grace period, and office start time, with a plain English preview. Overtime and Absent statuses are added. - **Test management links**Test cases can be tied to a story, and defects can be linked to existing tasks. - **Gantt deletion permission**Deleting a task from the Gantt chart is now permission gated. Self-Hostedv3.6.82026-06-07 ### Default work locations and Outlook proof emails Attendance gets a default work location, and email buttons render properly in Outlook Classic. - **Default work locations**A command creates a default work location per company, with coordinates and geo fence enforcement. Branch and Remote replace Work From Home in the location types. - **Outlook proof buttons**Every call to action button across the email templates is rebuilt so it renders correctly in Outlook Classic. - **Demo data**New commands seed a populated risk register and a Scrum sprint with tasks into a chosen project. Both are safe to run on a live system. Self-Hostedv3.6.72026-06-05 ### Stories and tasks on the epic detail Epic and feature lists gain their own column choices, and attendance locks work location detection. - **Epic detail tabs**The epic detail popup gains Stories and Tasks tabs, so an epic's children are browsable in place. - **Columns on epics and features**The show and hide column picker now works on the Epics and Features lists, each keeping its own independent choice. Approver, Approval Status, and Approval Date can be shown. - **Add a custom field from a task**Jump straight to custom field management from the task detail popup. - **Attendance work location**Clock entries gain a work location auto detect lock, a redesigned dashboard with quick actions, and a day level On Site chip. Self-Hostedv3.6.62026-06-03 ### Work location on attendance reports Attendance reports show where each punch happened, and task files link into documents. - **Location and flags in exports**Attendance report exports gain Location and Flags columns, resolved the same way on screen and in the file. - **Team grid location filter**Filter the team grid by work location alongside the existing employee type and search filters. - **Task files link to documents**Linked document titles on a task Files tab open the document detail page, with clear headings for uploaded files and linked documents. Self-Hostedv3.6.52026-06-02 ### App launcher permissions Control who sees each app in the launcher, and link documents from a task. - **App launcher permissions**Each tile in the nine dot launcher, meaning Orangescrum, Wiki, and Reports, is granted separately. A role denied all three loses the launcher button entirely. Everything is granted by default, so nothing changes until you opt out. - **Link from documents on a task**A Link from DMS button on the task Files tab opens the repository picker, scoped to that project. Edit Task preloads what is already linked and unlinks anything you untick. - **Epic approval emails**Approver and approval status emails now address each person by name and carry a details table, instead of opening with a blank greeting. - **Leave notifications**Approval and rejection emails are sent for leave requests, and deleted requests are excluded. - **Fresh install fix**Identity sequences are correct after a fresh install, so the first custom role, status, field, or template you create no longer collides. Self-Hostedv3.6.42026-05-28 ### Two acceptance fixes Follow up fixes from testing the previous release. - **Report page filters**The attendance Reports page no longer resets your search and accordion when more clock entries load as you scroll. - **Broken approval links**Saving an email template with a full web address wrapped in braces is now rejected with a clear message, instead of producing an approval link that fails when clicked. Self-Hostedv3.6.32026-05-28 ### Email templates get an admin screen and SMTP settings The email templating work from 3.6.0 becomes a full admin experience, and queued emails finally send. - **Per company template editor**Every template is editable per company, with a preview tile, a scrollable token list, and import or export of your overrides. - **SMTP settings in the app**Configure SMTP from the settings screen, with a test email, a history view, a revert path, and password re-confirmation on save. - **Background email queue**A queue worker runs every minute, so queued attendance, test management, and two factor emails are actually delivered. - **Outlook safe layouts**The notification and task activity shells are rebuilt so they render correctly in Outlook. - **Delivery fixes**Project note emails send again, task assignment emails route to the right template, and defect emails no longer arrive with a blank subject. Self-Hostedv3.6.22026-05-27 ### User management gets grid and list views A rebuilt Manage Users page and a per role switch for test management. - **Grid and list views**The user list can be shown as a grid or as a sortable list, with chip based filters for role, business unit, project, and team. - **Test management visibility**A new View Test Case Management permission lets admins decide which roles can reach the module. - **Permission fixes**Read only attendance screens no longer refuse custom roles, and marking a project complete is checked on the server as well as in the interface. Self-Hostedv3.6.12026-05-26 ### Correct submitter on document approvals A fix for approval records that named the wrong person. - **Right submitter recorded**Approval records and the activity log now name the person who submitted the document, rather than the last approver in the chain. - **Draft documents**A document reset to draft after a new version upload no longer shows stale approval details from the previous round. Self-Hostedv3.6.02026-05-26 ### Branded email templates Make notification emails look like they came from your organisation. - **Email templating**Customise 33 notification templates from a settings screen, using structured fields, token substitution, and a live preview. No HTML editing required. - **Common settings**Set the brand colour, sender name, sign off, and logo once and every notification picks them up. A per template override still wins where you set one. - **Redesigned emails**All 24 notification emails are redesigned, and task activity emails change heading and accent colour by activity type. - **Safety**Only owners and admins can change email templates, the preview is sandboxed and inert, and the HTML sanitiser was rewritten to close bypasses. Self-Hostedv3.5.62026-05-26 ### Custom employee types Define your own employee types, and tighten who can see the employee list. - **Employee types**Employee, contractor, client, intern, and consultant ship as defaults, and you can add your own inline from the employee form or the settings tab. A type still in use cannot be deleted. - **View only employee access**A new View Employees permission gives read access to the Employees tab without the right to change anything. - **Team grid legend as a filter**Click a status chip to dim non matching days, and export just the highlighted cells. - **All Leaves tab**A new tab showing every leave request, for roles allowed to see it. The tab you land on now depends on your permissions. - **Timezone fix**People with no timezone set no longer see yesterday's data on the attendance screens. Self-Hostedv3.5.52026-05-25 ### Leave approval and document access tidy up A patch that corrects leave approvals for people who sit in several workflows. - **Leave approval lookup**The leave approval screen shows the right flow for a person who is part of more than one active workflow. - **Interface refresh**Refreshed styling and responsiveness on the Leaves, Approval, and Team Grid screens. Self-Hostedv3.5.42026-05-25 ### Clock in and clock out report A dedicated attendance report, and a fairer attendance percentage. - **Clock report**A new clock in and clock out report, filterable by person, team, and date range, with weekly totals. Times show in 12 hour format in the CSV and Excel export. - **Working day percentage**Present days no longer count weekends and holidays, so the attendance percentage reflects working days only. Self-Hostedv3.5.32026-05-22 ### Permissions for programs, epics and features Four new permission modules, plus pagination and task hierarchy handling. - **New permission modules**Programs, Epics, Features, and Project Templates each get their own permissions, including separate delete actions. Existing custom roles are seeded explicitly, so nothing is silently granted. - **Sidebar and route gating**Denied modules disappear from the sidebar and their routes redirect, rather than half loading. - **Document pagination**Repository listings paginate at 20 rows per page and hide orphaned documents. - **Group by on task groups**Group by none, updated date, assignee, status, or priority, with sortable column headers. - **Deleting a parent task**When a task has children, choose whether to move them to another parent or delete them along with the parent. Self-Hostedv3.5.22026-05-21 ### One dashboard, and saved team grid views Dashboard addresses consolidate onto one screen, and the team grid gains saved views. - **Saved views and groups**Save your own named filter views on the team attendance grid, and let admins define shared user groups for scoping. - **One dashboard**The older dashboard addresses now all render the same modern dashboard for Owner, Admin, and User. Existing links keep working. - **Role changes take effect at once**Granting or removing admin or client rights applies on the next request, with no need to sign out and back in. - **Task save fixes**Saving a task after clearing its subtasks no longer freezes, and removing a label no longer leaves a phantom entry or duplicates the task. Self-Hostedv3.5.12026-05-20 ### Security hardening patch Fixes from a code review, mostly around escaping and permissions. - **Escaping fixes**Task filter output, dashboard values, and search filters are escaped correctly, closing a cross site scripting hole. - **Storage widget permissions**Storage usage widgets now respect the permission that is meant to gate them. Self-Hostedv3.5.02026-05-20 ### Export and timezone fixes A small patch. This release also set the package version number back to 3.5.0 after the 4.0.0 tag cut the day before. - **Export column order**Start date and due date values in the Excel and CSV export now line up with their headers. - **Import validation**Advanced import rejects rows where the start date is later than the due date, and shows the error in the preview. - **Clock timezone**Clock entries resolve the company timezone setting correctly. Self-Hostedv4.0.02026-05-19 ### Single sign on across Orangescrum, Wiki and Reports Orangescrum becomes the identity provider for the suite, so people sign in once. This release was tagged v4.0.0 from the v3.4.8 line, and the package version number was set back to 3.5.0 the following day. The capabilities below stayed in the product and carried into the 3.5 and later releases. - **Unified single sign on**A built in OIDC and OAuth2 authorization server makes Orangescrum the login for OS Wiki and OS Reports, so one sign in reaches all three. Uses authorization code with PKCE, signed ID tokens, refresh token rotation with replay detection, and an audit log. - **Nine dot app launcher**A launcher tile in the header for moving between Orangescrum, Wiki, and Reports. - **Single logout**Signing out of Orangescrum also clears your session in Wiki and Reports. - **Admin set passwords**When adding a user, an admin can set the password directly instead of sending an invite, with a strong password generator. Useful where there is no mail server. - **Reset a password for someone**A Reset Password action on each row of Manage Users, so an admin can issue a new password without email. - **Email capitalisation no longer matters**Addresses are stored in lower case and sign in accepts any capitalisation. Existing records are corrected on upgrade. Self-Hostedv3.4.82026-05-16 ### Several approvers on one level Document approval levels can name several people, any of whom can approve. - **Multiple approvers per level**An approval level can list several named people, and any one of them can approve to move the document on. - **Approver chips**Role and multi person levels show as chips with a count. Hovering lists the actual names behind them. - **Focus card for rejected work**The sidebar focus card now covers changes requested and rejected states, not just pending, with the reviewer comment shown inline. - **All Documents filter**Filter by all, uploaded by me, acted on, or pending my review. Self-Hostedv3.4.72026-05-16 ### Role based document approvers A large update to document approval, including approval by role and protection against self approval. - **Approve by role**An approval level can name a role such as QA Lead instead of one person, and every active holder of that role is notified. - **Resume or restart**When resubmitting a document, choose whether to resume the existing approval chain or cancel it and start fresh. - **Saving during approval is safe**Saving a document while it is in approval no longer cancels or restarts the workflow. A major version bump logs a warning and an audit row, and the chain continues. - **No self approval**People cannot approve or reject their own submissions. The review window explains why the buttons are disabled. - **Open comments block approval**Approval is blocked while comments are unresolved, unless the reviewer explicitly acknowledges them. - **Template archiving and export**Deleting a workflow template that is still in use archives it instead, and the dashboard gains a summary CSV export. Self-Hostedv3.4.62026-05-15 ### Edit a document while it is in approval Approvers can make changes without leaving the approval flow. - **Edit in approval**People in the approval chain can edit a document while it is under review. Saving cancels or restarts the workflow depending on how large the change is, and banners explain what will happen before you save. - **Approver edit access**External approvers get edit access without needing the general document view permission. - **Employee search**The reporting manager dropdown can be searched by name and shows each person's email alongside. Self-Hostedv3.4.52026-05-14 ### Sixteen fixes brought over from cloud Mostly a fix release, bringing cloud fixes into the self hosted build. - **Cloud fixes**Sixteen fixes ported from the cloud codebase, covering the Firefox project filter, theme colours on pagination and tabs, timesheet labels, burndown tooltips, and quick tasks for custom roles. - **Tenant isolation fix**Billable hours queries are scoped to the company, closing a route by which data could cross between tenants. - **Document diff and print**Version differences show side by side, and the document detail view can be printed. Self-Hostedv3.4.42026-05-11 ### Automatic clock out Attendance closes forgotten clock entries, and the document editor gains PDF handling. - **Automatic clock out**A scheduled job closes clock entries left running past the configured daily hours, and signing out closes an open entry. - **PDF from the editor**Download the current document as a PDF from the editor toolbar. Filenames now carry the document title and version. - **Annotation positioning**Annotations land in the right place on flattened PDFs, and exported documents keep their table borders and embedded images. Self-Hostedv3.4.32026-05-06 ### Redesigned document editor A visual overhaul of the collaborative editor, plus Word import. - **Editor redesign**A rebuilt toolbar and layout with cleaner typography and spacing. - **Word import**Import .docx files into a document with formatting preserved. - **Inline comments**Highlight text in a document and attach a threaded comment to it. - **Page breaks**Insert page breaks so documents lay out correctly for print. Self-Hostedv3.4.22026-05-04 ### User export fix A hotfix for the user list export added in 3.3.3. - **Export downloads correctly**The user CSV export downloads in place instead of showing a blank page, and it no longer opens a new tab. - **Faster on large lists**Project lookups are batched, so exporting a long user list is much quicker. Self-Hostedv3.4.12026-05-04 ### PDF annotation Mark up PDFs in the browser, with no extra server component to run. - **PDF annotator**Sticky notes, highlights, freehand drawing, text boxes, signatures, and an eraser, over a three column view of thumbnails, page, and an annotations rail. Annotations can be flattened into a new PDF version. - **No sidecar needed for PDFs**A pure PHP transport means PDF annotation works without running the separate collaboration service. - **Version bumps on save**The save dialog offers major, minor, or patch version options with a clearer version label. Self-Hostedv3.4.02026-05-01 ### Collaborative document editing Edit documents together in the browser, straight from the repository. - **CollabDocs**Real time co editing of .doc, .docx, and .txt documents from the document repository, with version snapshots, compare and restore, and collaborator grants. OnlyOffice and Collabora can be used instead where you need full Office fidelity. - **Restart approval after rejection**Ticking restart approval when uploading a new version of a rejected document now actually restarts the workflow and notifies the first approver. - **Pending approval count**The pending approval figure on the dashboard matches the list it sits above. - **Approver dropdown respects the template**When a workflow template pins a level to a role, the picker only offers project members holding that role. Self-Hostedv3.3.32026-05-01 ### Eight fixes and a user export A fix led release, with one small new feature. - **User CSV export**Export the company user list to CSV from the Users screen. - **Leave queue order**Approvers see the newest leave request at the top, matching every other queue. - **Attendance for several people at once**Manual attendance entry accepts several employees in one action, so a manager can backfill in one go. - **Document status on tasks**Each linked document on a task Files tab shows a draft, pending, approved, or rejected chip. - **Risk dashboard stability**The risk dashboard degrades gracefully instead of failing outright when one section has a problem. Self-Hostedv3.3.22026-04-29 ### Clock in restrictions and monthly attendance approval Control where staff can clock in from, and route monthly attendance through an approval chain. - **IP restriction**Stop clock in and clock out from outside approved networks such as the office network or VPN. Choose whether to block or just flag. - **Geo fence**Stop clock in and clock out from outside a set radius of the office. Choose whether to block or just flag. - **Monthly attendance approval**Monthly attendance runs through a proper approval chain of up to five levels, and can route through each person's own reporting manager. - **Audit log viewer**Review who changed clock restriction policy and who imported attendance, with before and after values. - **Document fixes**Bulk approve works, task files show who uploaded them, and documents can be attached straight from the comment box. Self-Hostedv3.3.12026-04-23 ### Bulk risk import and task to document links Import risks from a spreadsheet, and link documents to tasks. - **Bulk risk import**Upload an XLSX, CSV, or TXT file to create many risks at once, with field mapping, a dry run preview, and per row validation. - **Documents on tasks**Task detail pages can link documents from the repository through an inline picker, and approval chains show the document owner. Self-Hostedv3.3.02026-04-21 ### Attendance and Leave A new module for clocking in and out, and for managing leave. - **Attendance and Leave**Clock in and out, leave management, approval workflows, a team grid, and reports, installed as a module and scoped per organisation. - **Leave approval chains**Up to five approval levels, each routed to a role, a named person, or the requester's reporting manager, with auto approve timers and escalation hours. - **Risk management fixes**Four fixes from stakeholder review, covering risk filters, bulk actions, owner only views, and assignment notifications. Self-HostedvV4.1.12025-11-26 ### Orangescrum On-Premises V4.1.1 A major upgrade built for modern teams, with faster performance, smarter automation, and improved collaboration. Existing on-premises customers can upgrade completely free, including migration and onboarding. - **Free upgrade for existing customers**Existing on-premises customers upgrade at no cost, with migration and onboarding included. Cloudv3.4.02026 ### Current cloud release The cloud edition runs continuously, so features arrive as they are ready rather than in numbered packages. - **AI Chat**Ask questions about your projects in plain English, and let AI create tasks or log time with confirmation before anything changes. - **MCP Server**Connect Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other AI clients straight to your workspace using the open Model Context Protocol. - **Scaled Agile**Essential SAFe with Agile Release Trains, PI planning, WSJF, ROAM risks, and flow metrics. - **Test Case Manager**Test plans, suites, cases, runs, and defect tracking with traceability back to tasks and sprints. - **Azure DevOps**Connect your organisation, link projects and repositories, create branches, and track pull requests. - **Task watchers**Follow any work item and control exactly which notifications you receive. - **Cloud storage links**Attach files from Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive without re uploading them. A rollup of what is live in the cloud today. The dated entries below trace the same history month by month. Cloudv2026.07July 2026 ### Scaled agile, the new workspace, and dark mode A large month. Scaled agile reached the cloud edition, the rebuilt workspace screens went live behind opt in toggles, and existing Orangescrum accounts started moving across to the new platform. - **Scaled agile on cloud**Essential SAFe arrives, with Agile Release Trains, PI planning, a WSJF prioritised backlog, ROAM risks, and flow metrics. A plan level feature gate decides who sees it. - **One workspace**A rebuilt Team Members page and invite flow, inside a single workspace shell shared by boards, lists, and settings. - **New views are opt in**New Planning, New Board, New Projects and Programs, and New Time Log all ship switched off. Each person turns them on from Settings when they are ready. - **Live updates**Board and list screens refresh as other people make changes, so you no longer reload the page to see them. - **Watchers follow assignment**Anyone assigned to a work item becomes a watcher automatically, and email can be switched off per watcher. - **Dark mode**A dark theme for the whole interface, plus a personal accent colour. Cloudv2026.06June 2026 ### Scrum boards, the AI copilot, checklists and watchers The busiest month of the year. A new Scrum module, a much deeper AI assistant, and two new ways to keep track of work. - **New Scrum module**Backlog, sprint board, and sprint reports rebuilt as a single page experience. Defects can sit in agile planning and the backlog alongside stories and tasks, and a defect can be linked to the task it came from. - **Board and filter redesign**A redesigned active sprint board with swimlanes, a new filter panel, epic and feature boards, a command palette, and saved views. - **AI copilot acts on real data**The assistant proposes a change, you commit it, and you can undo it. Adds generated replies, project memory, and document upload so answers draw on your own files. - **Configurable checklists**Reusable checklist groups and templates that attach to epics, features, stories, tasks, defects, test scenarios, test cases, projects, and programs. - **Watchers**Follow any work item, choose what you are told about, and receive a daily or weekly digest. - **Feedback from inside the app**A feedback tab on the edge of every screen for feature requests, bug reports, and a star rating. Cloudv2026.05May 2026 ### Orangescrum AI arrives The AI assistant went live, and plans began to control which modules a company sees. The platform version moved from 3.1.11 to 3.4.0 on 7 May. - **Orangescrum AI chat**Ask questions about your projects in plain English. An admin sets up the provider with your own API key, calibrates the model, and the assistant can create a task from the conversation. - **AI clients over MCP**A company can connect its workspace to the Orangescrum MCP server, so approved AI clients reach your data through that connection. The entitlement is granted per company. - **Epic detail with stories and tasks**The epic detail view gains Stories and Tasks tabs and a progress summary, so an epic's children are browsable in place. - **Sprint report**A rebuilt sprint report with metric tiles, charts, a resource breakdown, and a PDF export that matches what is on screen. - **Storage limits by plan**Each plan carries a storage quota, enforced as files are uploaded, with usage widgets on the dashboard and a warning before you run out. - **Transfer ownership**A company owner can hand ownership of the account to someone else. Cloudv2026.04April 2026 ### Guided onboarding and Azure DevOps New accounts got a guided setup, and the Azure DevOps integration shipped. - **Onboarding wizard**New owners are walked through four steps before they reach the app: name a project, choose a work style, invite the team, and log a first task. Invited members go straight in. - **Take a Tour**The product tour was rebuilt so it keeps its place as you move between pages, and it no longer restarts itself every time you create a task. - **Azure DevOps**Link an Azure DevOps organisation to Orangescrum projects, with two way task sync behind a toggle, branch and pull request activity on the task view, and Azure Active Directory user sync. - **Task email notifications**Email notifications for task activity, with control over who receives them. - **New pricing plans**Plans without a seat ceiling, and a subscription page where an admin can see and change what the company is on. - **Two large fix waves**Ninety fixes across time log, sprint, Git integration, project templates, and custom fields, then a second wave covering CSV custom fields and Git comment sync. Cloudv2026.03March 2026 ### One tap sign in, theme editor, and test management access Signing in got quicker, the interface became themeable, and test management gained per role access. - **Google One Tap**Returning users can sign in with their Google account in one tap, without typing a password. - **Theme editor**Choose the interface colours for your company. The sidebar also remembers whether you left it open or closed. - **Test management access**Reaching the test case module is granted per role, and test cases can be imported from a file. - **Git comments sync at once**A comment added in Orangescrum reaches the linked GitHub item straight away, rather than waiting for the next scheduled sync. - **Resource utilisation export**Export the resource utilisation view, and timesheet approval no longer locks rows it should leave alone. - **Helpdesk agents**A user can be created as a helpdesk agent or a client, with the matching record raised in the connected HRMS at the same time. Cloudv2026.02February 2026 ### Two factor authentication and company API keys A security led month, plus the first API keys a company can issue for itself. - **Two factor authentication**A one time code by email at sign in, with security questions as a fallback. Turn it on for the whole company and exempt named roles. - **Password policy**Require a password change every so many months, and stop people reusing their recent passwords. - **Developer API keys**Owners and admins can create API keys for the company, switch a key off, and review a log of the calls made with it. - **Plan feature management**What a plan includes is held as data, so a feature can be turned on per plan and overridden for a single company. - **Advance analytics**Embedded analytics dashboards under their own reports menu, with row level security so people only see their own organisation's data. - **Utilisation filters**The resource utilisation view can be filtered by label and by whether the time is billable. Cloudv2026.01January 2026 ### The rebuilt cloud platform The cloud edition moved onto the version 4 codebase. VERSION.txt read 3.1.11 at the first commit on 9 January 2026. - **New platform**Orangescrum cloud runs on the version 4 codebase, multi tenant on PostgreSQL, with company scoping applied throughout. - **Sign in rebuilt**Redesigned sign up, sign in, and forgot password pages, with sign in by Google account and a clearer change password screen. - **Work runs in the background**Email and other long running jobs move to a background queue, so pages no longer wait on them. - **Billing on Stripe**Card billing through Stripe, with trial periods, plan changes, and webhook handling for payment events. - **Tenant isolation fixes**Queries that could reach across organisations were scoped correctly, covering time logs, teams, programs, and project templates. - **A broad fix sweep**Fixes across seventeen modules, plus corrected date handling and row limits in import and export. Cloudv2025.12December 2025 ### Version 26.1.1, and the Epic hierarchy The unified 26.1.1 platform release, and the work that made the Epic to Feature to Story to Task hierarchy real end to end. - **Orangescrum releases version 26.1.1**Orangescrum introduced Version 26.1.1, a unified Cloud and On-Premises platform built on a modern, AI ready foundation for faster innovation, simpler upgrades, and a consistent experience for every team. Released 18 December 2025. - **Epic Tree View**Get complete visibility into your Agile work hierarchy with the Epic Tree View. View epics, features, stories, tasks, and sub tasks in a single expandable structure to quickly understand scope, progress, and dependencies. Released 17 December 2025. - **Task predecessor and successor dependencies**Define precise task sequencing using full predecessor and successor relationships. Model real world execution logic with Finish to Start, Start to Start, Finish to Finish, and Start to Finish dependencies. Released 17 December 2025. - **Critical path and circular dependency controls**Quickly identify delivery critical tasks in the Gantt chart and prevent workflow blockages with automatic circular dependency detection. Ensure smarter scheduling, fewer delays, and consistent on time project delivery. Released 11 December 2025. - **Feature list and the Orangescrum Feature Board**Gain clearer agile visibility with a new Epic to Feature to Story to Task hierarchy and track progress instantly using the Orangescrum Feature Board for faster, more structured delivery. Released 10 December 2025. Cloudv2025.11November 2025 ### Epic governance, and the multi tenant foundation Approval and board views for Epics. The platform groundwork listed at the end comes from migration timestamps in the cloud repo rather than from the old page, so treat those dates as approximate. - **Epic approval workflow**A structured Epic approval process to standardise governance across projects. Assign approvers, track decisions, and ensure every Epic is validated before execution begins. Released 21 November 2025. - **Epic Board for high level visibility**The Epic Board gives you a visual overview of every Epic across its lifecycle. Track progress, identify bottlenecks, and maintain complete project transparency in one unified view. Released 21 November 2025. - **Multi tenant base**Company scoped data, company identifiers moved to UUIDs, and sessions held in the database. - **Cloud storage links**Attach files from Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive to a task without uploading them again. - **Subscription plans**Plans, gateway subscriptions, and the first per plan feature flags. - **Invitations**User invitations carry a token, so an invite link can be traced and used once. - **Git sync**Tables for syncing tasks and comments with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories. Cloudv2025.10October 2025 ### Epic management, timezones, and the Help Center - **Orangescrum Help Center**The Orangescrum Help Center launched as a single destination for guides and best practices. Find answers, learn new features, and make the most of your Orangescrum experience. Released 25 October 2025. - **Control user timezone and permissions**Orangescrum Cloud now allows admins to set user timezones and manage permissions effectively, ensuring accurate scheduling and streamlined team collaboration. Released 16 October 2025. - **End to end Epic management**Orangescrum Enterprise now supports comprehensive Epic management, helping teams plan, track, and deliver large initiatives. Released 15 October 2025. Cloudv2025.09September 2025 ### Advanced import, and accurate utilisation exports - **Advanced import**Upload project data with the new Advanced Import feature, reducing manual effort and accelerating project setup. Released 26 September 2025. - **Export resource utilisation in hours and minutes**Resource utilisation can now be exported in precise hours and minutes, providing accurate reporting for project planning and management. Released 25 September 2025. - **Decimal time conversion in exports**Resource utilisation exports now match the in app hours and minutes format, eliminating manual conversions and ensuring accurate, easy to read reports. Fixed 25 September 2025. Cloudv2025.05May 2025 ### A smarter UI - **Revamped settings and navigation in Orangescrum Agile**The left navigation menu and application settings were redesigned for a faster, smoother, and more intuitive Orangescrum experience. Released 20 May 2025. Cloudv2025.02February 2025 ### Report accuracy - **Team utilisation report enhancement**Company defined working hours now display correctly in the All Projects view, giving accurate team utilisation insights and a clear, consolidated view of workloads. Released 12 February 2025. - **Profitability report accuracy enhancement**Project estimation hours, profit margin percentage, and spent hours calculations are now accurate, and report exports include all data and metrics for reliable profitability insights. Released 12 February 2025. Open Sourcev0.1.02026-08-11 ### Community Edition is released Orangescrum Community Edition is now free, open source software under the GNU AGPL v3 license. The first public release is on GitHub. Self host it on your own servers with no seat limits. [View the source on GitHub →](https://github.com/Orangescrum/opensource-community-edition) - **Free and open source**Released under GNU AGPL v3. Read the source, change it, and run it for as many people as you like. - **First public release**Tagged v0.1.0 and published on 11 August 2026. Clone it, download the release, or run it with Docker. - **Core project management**Projects, tasks and subtasks, Kanban boards, task discussions, time log, documents, and role based access. - **Runs anywhere**Deploy with Docker, on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Windows, macOS, or an Amazon machine image. - **Modern stack**Built on CakePHP 4 with PHP 8.2 or later and PostgreSQL 16. Questions ## About Orangescrum _releases_ How often does Orangescrum release? The Cloud edition updates continuously, so features arrive as they are ready. The Self-Hosted edition ships numbered packages you install yourself, and each one comes with its own release notes. The open source Community Edition follows its own release cycle on GitHub. Do all editions get the same features? No. The editions ship on different cycles and some features are specific to one edition. Every feature page shows which editions include it, and you can filter this page by edition. Where can I see release notes for a specific version? Use the edition filter on this page to see the versions for your edition. Each entry lists what changed in that release. How do I upgrade the Self-Hosted edition? Back up your database, take the new package, and follow the upgrade steps in that release's notes. Always test an upgrade on a copy before running it in production. ## Start using the latest release Unlimited users on every plan, with no per seat pricing. No credit card required. [Start Free Trial](/sign-up?utm_source=website&utm_medium=whats_new&utm_content=cta)[See the roadmap](/roadmap)