--- title: Forgejo v1.21 release candidates | daily.dev description: Forgejo v1.21 release candidate (rc0) is now available for testing. Key new features include newly pushed branch notifications with PR creation links, improved... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/forgejo-v1-21-release-candidates-ggdkgxchl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Forgejo v1.21 release candidates | daily.dev og:description: Forgejo v1.21 release candidate (rc0) is now available for testing. Key new features include newly pushed branch notifications with PR creation links, improved... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/forgejo-v1-21-release-candidates-ggdkgxchl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ggdkgxchl.png og:image:alt: Forgejo v1.21 release candidates og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Forgejo v1.21 release candidates **[Forgejo News](https://daily.dev/sources/forgejo)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Forgejo v1.21 release candidate (rc0) is now available for testing. Key new features include newly pushed branch notifications with PR creation links, improved issue search, admin email notifications for new user registrations, label archiving, per-commit PR reviews, CODEOWNERS-based automatic reviewer assignment, and branch info caching for performance. Forgejo Actions also received multiple improvements including variables support, cron, workflow disabling, artifact cleanup, auto-cancellation of concurrent jobs, and multiple artifacts. Federation progress via the F3 driver is ongoing but not yet ready for experimentation. Production upgrades are not recommended at this stage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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