diff --git a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
index 0d1a9a5..8f7dd03 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/gitbucket/core/view/helpers.scala
@@ -275,4 +275,11 @@
     case CommitState.ERROR   => "Failed"
     case CommitState.FAILURE => "Failed"
   }
+
+  // This pattern comes from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4390768/1771641 (extract-url-from-string)
+  private[this] val detectAndRenderLinksRegex = """(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,13}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))""".r
+
+  def detectAndRenderLinks(text: String): Html = {
+    Html(detectAndRenderLinksRegex.replaceAllIn(text, m => s"""<a href="${m.group(0)}">${m.group(0)}</a>"""))
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/menu.scala.html b/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/menu.scala.html
index d2798ab..7e71382 100644
--- a/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/menu.scala.html
+++ b/src/main/twirl/gitbucket/core/menu.scala.html
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
   <div style="margin-right: @if(expand){180px} else {50px};">
     @if(expand){
       @repository.repository.description.map { description =>
-        <p class="description">@description</p>
+        <p class="description">@detectAndRenderLinks(description)</p>
       }
       <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;" class="box-content">
         <table class="fill-width">
diff --git a/src/test/scala/gitbucket/core/view/HelpersSpec.scala b/src/test/scala/gitbucket/core/view/HelpersSpec.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41d0053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/scala/gitbucket/core/view/HelpersSpec.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package gitbucket.core.view
+
+import org.specs2.mutable._
+
+class HelpersSpec extends Specification {
+
+  import helpers._
+
+  "detect and render links" should {
+
+    "pass identical string when no link is present" in {
+      val before = "Description"
+      val after = detectAndRenderLinks(before).toString()
+      after mustEqual before
+    }
+
+    "convert a single link" in {
+      val before = "http://example.com"
+      val after = detectAndRenderLinks(before).toString()
+      after mustEqual """<a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>"""
+    }
+
+    "convert a single link within trailing text" in {
+      val before = "Example Project. http://example.com"
+      val after = detectAndRenderLinks(before).toString()
+      after mustEqual """Example Project. <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>"""
+    }
+
+    "convert a mulitple links within text" in {
+      val before = "Example Project. http://example.com. (See also https://github.com/)"
+      val after = detectAndRenderLinks(before).toString()
+      after mustEqual """Example Project. <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>. (See also <a href="https://github.com/">https://github.com/</a>)"""
+    }
+
+  }
+
+}
+