Developers of the Forgejo code collaboration platform announced a major release today, Forgejo v16.0.0. New features for the open source, self-hosted platform are here, and one feature is actually going away.

What's new

• Consistency checks: Forgejo's Git instance will verify the consistency of incoming objects and will block them if they risk corrupting the repository.
• Multi-line review comments: When reviewing code in pull requests, you can now hold Shift and highlight multiple lines to comment on all of them at once.
• In-list member management: Now while looking at your list of organizational members, you have a dialog that lets you quickly add new members and also add existing members to multiple teams at once.
• Workflow logs in API: There are new API endpoints for accessing the logs of entire workflow runs or individual jobs.

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#Forgejo 16.0.0 was just released! Repository watch now has options. Authorized Integrations allow secret-less access to the API. Review comments can be placed on multiple lines of code. Improved security of pull mirrors. Check out the blog post at https://forgejo.org/2026-07-release-v16-0/ #forgejorelease

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What's getting better

• Watch settings: When you "watch" a code repository, you now have controls over which parts of the projects you get notifications about. Your options include releases, pull requests, and issues.
• Pull request UI: The user interface for reviewing commits on the pull request pages has been overhauled, with an emphasis on flexibility for different screen sizes.
  • This overhaul will eventually come to all pages that show commit lists.
• Repo migrations: Now, when you migrate a large repository, you'll see progress indicators showing the number of pull requests, issues, etc., that have been migrated so far. That way, you're not faced with a static page for a long period of time with no idea whether anything is happening.
• Image performance: System-generated avatars now have downsized variants that load when the standard size isn't required, decreasing bandwidth requirements.

What's going away

• EXIF stripping: While version 15.0 of Forgejo introduced the ability to strip EXIF metadata from avatar images as they're uploaded, that feature's now being removed. The blog post reads, "Unfortunately, a licensing mistake was made and Forgejo relied on an AGPL-licensed library to accomplish this work."
  • Alternative ways to implement the feature are being researched.

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Zooming out

Why this update matters: Forgejo is the basis for Codeberg and other GitHub alternatives, which are of increased importance as GitHub's service gets worse.

My take: I monitor a lot of software development, so I'm glad I'll finally be able to customize watch notifications on Codeberg.

Diving in

The fineprint: There's a lot more in the Forgejo 16.0 release announcement that I didn't cover, including a few workflow-breaking changes, JWT generation for internal Authorized Integrations, and several small tweaks to review comments.

Get it now: You can get version 16.0 by visiting the Forgejo download page. If you already have a Forgejo instance running, you can follow the Forgejo upgrade guide to bump your installation to 16.0.

• Forgejo 16.0 will be supported until October 29, 2026.