In the earlier versions of Redmine, "Latest projects" box was placed on the Home page. It showed recently created 5 projects and users can quickly access projects from there.

However, the box was removed in Redmine 3.2.0 (#21148) because the project list that shows projects regardless of frequency of use is quite useless.

In Redmine 4.1, the "Recently used projects" feature has been implemented for the project selector (#31355). It is useful if the "Latest projects" box is restored and recently used projects are shown in the box. You can go to the projects you use frequently with fewer clicks. I think it improves usability.

The following screenshot is the Home page of Redmine 3.1. The "Latest projects" box shows recently created projects.

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