Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Scala based Git platform GitBucket 2.5!

New Dashboard

New Issues UI has been applied to dashboard too.

New dashboard

Change datetime format

All datetime in GitBucket has been shown as xx days ago like GitHub.

Datetime format

Create branch from Web UI

It has been possible to create new branch from the branch selector in Web UI.

Create branch from Web UI

Task list in Markdown

GitBucket markdown has been supported Task list as below:

- [ ] sample
- [ ] sample2

Task list in Markdown

If we check “Task List” checkbox, then markdown content is updated.


In addition, some bug fix and improvements are contained in this release. See all closed issues in this release to know details.

Enjoy GitBucket!