ProjectForge 8.1

⚠️ Update strongly recommended for all users - This release fixes a major memory leak in the data transfer module and resolves frequent page errors in web pages (Wicket memory issues).

✅ 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/