What's new in Forgejo v16

Publication date: 2026-08-01

We’ve upgraded the platform to Forgejo v16, the newest release of the forge software that powers OpenCommit.

Alongside the regular round of bug fixes and performance improvements, this update brings a number of refinements to the everyday workflow. Here are the highlights you’ll notice as a user:

Notifications you can tune

Repository watch settings are now granular: you can choose which parts of a repository you want to receive notifications for Issues, Pull requests, and Releases.

Better pull request reviews

  • The commits view on pull requests has been redesigned: cleaner, easier to read, and responsive.
  • Review comments can now span multiple lines. Hold Shift, click the plus button on the first line of the range, and drag down to the last line.
  • Fixes for misplaced review comments: they now show up on the right diff, even when lines have moved or been removed in later commits.

Smoother everyday operations

  • Repository migrations now show their progress, so you can verify that a long-running migration isn’t stuck.
  • Adding team members to your organization is easier: a dialog right on the member list lets you add someone to multiple teams in one go.
  • Downscaled avatar variants are now served where full size isn’t needed, reducing bandwidth usage and speeding up page loads.
  • A consistency check on incoming Git objects rejects corrupt pushes before they can break a repository.

Forgejo Actions

  • Workflow runs can now be manually marked as prioritized, so they execute before all others.
  • Skipped checks are now marked as skipped instead of succeeded.
  • Workflow if conditions are evaluated on the platform itself, speeding up workflow execution.
  • Completed workflow runs, including their logs and artifacts, can be removed via the UI or the API.
  • Authorized Integrations let workflows authenticate API and Git access with short-lived JWTs, an alternative to static tokens.

As always, the upgrade happened without any changes to your repositories, branches, or settings. Everything is exactly where you left it.

If you spot anything that behaves differently, don’t hesitate to let us know.

For the full release notes, we’d like to refer you to Forgejo themselves: https://forgejo.org/2026-07-release-v16-0/