Gitea v1.26.0 released on 18-04-2026
Gitea v1.26.0 is out now. Administrators and integrators should review the breaking API changes, security hardening and substantial Actions and UX improvements.
See the release notes on Gitea’s release page for full details and upgrade instructions.
What’s in this release
- Breaking and API changes: corrected Swagger/OpenAPI annotations (enums, status codes, notification state), removal of the GET registration-token API, and PUBLIC_URL_DETECTION now defaults to “auto” with a new “never” option.
- Actions improvements: support for the Actions concurrency syntax, ability to re-run failed jobs (UI and API), per-runner Disable/Pause, better artifact handling (non-zipped artifacts, archive-upload RPC, subpath downloads) and improved run summaries and log UX.
- New features and UX work: terraform state registry, instance-wide info banner and maintenance mode, OpenAPI spec rendering, keyboard shortcuts for file and code search, automatic generation of release notes, mermaid viewer improvements and dark/light theme image support in Markdown.
Upgrade notes
- Removed GET registration-token API — check any automation, integrations or clients that call this endpoint and update them before upgrading.
- PUBLIC_URL_DETECTION default changed to “auto” and a “never” option is available; review your PUBLIC_URL_DETECTION setting after upgrade. Gitea Cloud instances will be upgraded automatically during the scheduled maintenance window; for self-hosted instances, test the upgrade and use your normal rollback procedure if you need to revert.
Tell the Gitea team and the community about your experience — share any upgrade issues, integration breakages or improvements you notice.
