Gitea 1.26.1 is released

We are excited to announce the release of Gitea 1.26.1! We strongly recommend all users upgrade to this version, as it includes important fixes that address several significant issues since 1.26.0 and improves overall stability.

This release includes 22 merged pull requests, thanks to the amazing contributions from our community.

How to install or update

Download our pre-built binaries from the Gitea downloads page — make sure to select the version compatible with your platform. For a step-by-step guide on installation or upgrades, check out our installation documentation

Special Thanks

We would also like to thank all of our supporters on Open Collective who are helping to sustain us financially.

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Changelog

1.26.1 - 2026-04-21

• BUGFIXES

  • Enhance GetActionWorkflow to support fallback references (#37283)
  • Fix container auth for public instance (#37294)
  • Fix Mermaid diagrams failing when node labels contain line breaks (#37299)
  • Fix vite manifest update masking build errors (#37310)
  • Fix button layout shift when collapsing file tree in editor (#37375)
  • fix: commit status reporting (#37386)
  • Fix org team assignee/reviewer lookups for team member permissions (#37391)
  • Fix repo init README EOL (#37399)
  • fix: dump with default zip type produces uncompressed zip (#37402)
  • Fix AppFullLink (#37328)
  • Fix bug when accessing user badges (#37329)
  • Fix actions concurrency groups cross-branch leak (#37331)
  • Fix an issue where changing an organization‘s visibility caused problems when users had forked its repositories. (#37344)
  • fix(oauth): Error on auth sources with spaces (#37332)
  • When the requested arch rpm is missing fall back to noarch (#37339)
  • Fix URL related escaping for oauth2 (#37340)
  • Use modern git update-index --cacheinfo syntax to support more file names (#37343)
  • fix: use TriggerEvent instead of Event in workflow runs API response for scheduled runs (#37360)

• ENHANCEMENTS

  • Add event.schedule context for schedule actions task (#37348)

• DOCS

  • Add URL to Learn more about blocking a user. (#37367)

Contributors

• @bircni
• @bytedream
• @chethenry
• @lunny
• @prettysunflower
• @KalashThakare
• @pisarz77
• @silverwind
• @wxiaoguang