OpenProject Roadmap 2025: Highlights of upcoming features and developments
Transparency is a cornerstone of OpenProject’s open source values. By sharing our roadmap openly, we invite you to see where the software is heading, align your workflows with upcoming features, and actively contribute to the development process. At openproject.org/roadmap, you can continuously track which features are planned for which dates — while keeping in mind that plans may evolve.
This article provides a focused summary of our current priorities for 2025, looking beyond individual features to highlight overarching goals. Discover what’s planned for OpenProject in 2025!
Overview: Current focus topics for developing OpenProject
Here is a brief overview of the key areas we’re focusing on to make OpenProject even more valuable in 2025:
- Project portfolio management
- Team collaboration
- Integrations and API solutions
- User experience and accessibility
- Mobile app
Let’s take a closer look at each of these topics, highlighting exemplary features and why they’re planned for this year.
OpenProject’s focus on project portfolio management
Managing multiple projects efficiently is a critical challenge for many organizations. Our focus on project portfolio management in 2025 is planned to help you maintain clarity, prioritize effectively, and make strategic decisions across your portfolio.
Roadmap 2025: Planned portfolio management features
- Q1: Project start and finish date
- Q1: Project lifecycle with stages and gates
- Q2: Filter options for included projects
- Q2: Project prioritization features
- Q3/Q4: Grant read and write permissions on project attributes by role
One of the exciting upcoming features regarding project portfolio management is the project lifecycle with stages and gates. These represent specific phases (stages) and critical decision points (gates) in a project lifecycle. By integrating these into the system, project portfolio managers will be able to better track and manage projects as they progress through different stages.
Image: Preview OpenProject 2025 – Project lifecycle with stages and gates - administration. Please note that the feature is still in development and this is just a preview.
OpenProject’s focus on team collaboration
Collaboration is the foundation of successful project management. In 2025, we’re planning enhancements to help teams communicate, coordinate, and work together seamlessly.
Roadmap 2025: Planned collaboration features
- Q1: Advanced features for the meetings module
- Q2: Automatically create work packages by email
- Q3: Work packages with reduced visibility (private work packages)
- Q3: Multiple assignees without group creation
- Q3/Q4: Open points which can be linked to work packages and meetings
- Q3/Q4: Improved global search bar
Meetings play an essential role in project collaboration – for companies of all sizes. That’s why we’re excited to continue improving our dynamic meetings module this year. Some key features will be the ability to take meeting minutes during the meeting as well as recurring meetings.
Image: Preview OpenProject 2025 – Recurring meetings. Please note that the feature is still in development and this is just a preview.
OpenProject’s focus on integrations and API solutions
Integrations and API solutions remain a priority to ensure OpenProject works seamlessly with other tools in your ecosystem. These planned improvements aim to make workflows smoother and more connected.
Roadmap 2025: Planned integrations
- Q1: Seamless integration of user sessions of Nextcloud and OpenProject
- Q3/Q4: Integration between OpenProject and Element
- Q3/Q4: Integration between OpenProject and XWiki
- Q3/Q4: SCIM server functionality via SCIM API
The Nextcloud integration for OpenProject has played a central role in file management for years. We are very happy about this collaboration and look forward to developing further integrations with valued open source partners such as Element and XWiki soon.
Find out more about integrations for OpenProject.
OpenProject’s focus on user experience and accessibility
Making OpenProject more intuitive and accessible is an ongoing goal. We aim to ensure that every user, regardless of their technical background or abilities, can benefit from the software. In 2023, we started introducing the Primer design system and continued applying it last year. In 2025, we will continue applying standardized components to missing pages and improving accessibility, with a special focus on the Scrum module. Learn more about the Primer design system for OpenProject.
Mobile app
In 2025, we continue developing our mobile app, which is not yet publicly available. While most of our developers are focused on the web app, we are excited about the progress of our mobile app. Stay tuned for updates as we work toward delivering a powerful mobile experience.
Image: The OpenProject mobile app Home screen in an alpha version. Please note that the app is still in development and this is just a preview.
Your feedback, ideas, and wishes for our roadmap
Your opinion matters: Are these planned features useful to you? Is anything missing that you really wish for? We would love to hear from you.
As an open source company, we work in the open. So if you would like to participate in OpenProject, join our Community instance to request features, report bugs, and get early access to upcoming releases. See this guide to our Community instance to learn how exactly you can contribute.
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