diff --git a/docs/config.md b/docs/config.md
index d88aba4269..55de60428a 100644
--- a/docs/config.md
+++ b/docs/config.md
@@ -1237,15 +1237,27 @@ The following settings are available:
 `manifest.description`
 : Free text describing the workflow project.
 
+`manifest.docsUrl`
+: Project documentation URL.
+
 `manifest.doi`
 : Project related publication DOI identifier.
 
 `manifest.homePage`
 : Project home page URL.
 
+`manifest.icon`
+: Project related icon location (Relative path or URL).
+
+`manifest.license`
+: Project license.
+
 `manifest.mainScript`
 : Project main script (default: `main.nf`).
 
+`manifest.maintainer`
+: Project maintainer name (use a comma to separate multiple names).
+
 `manifest.name`
 : Project short name.
 
@@ -1262,6 +1274,9 @@ The following settings are available:
   manifest.nextflowVersion = '!>=1.2'       // with ! prefix, stop execution if current version does not match required version.
   ```
 
+`manifest.organisation`
+: Project organisation
+
 `manifest.recurseSubmodules`
 : Pull submodules recursively from the Git repository.
 
diff --git a/modules/nextflow/src/main/groovy/nextflow/config/Manifest.groovy b/modules/nextflow/src/main/groovy/nextflow/config/Manifest.groovy
index ad06fa0a49..f8592294e2 100644
--- a/modules/nextflow/src/main/groovy/nextflow/config/Manifest.groovy
+++ b/modules/nextflow/src/main/groovy/nextflow/config/Manifest.groovy
@@ -98,8 +98,28 @@ class Manifest {
         target.doi
     }
 
+    String getDocsUrl() {
+        target.docsUrl
+    }
+
+    String getIcon(){
+        target.icon
+    }
+
+    String getMaintainer(){
+        target.maintainer
+    }
+
+    String getOrganisation(){
+        target.organisation
+    }
+
+    String getLicense(){
+        target.license
+    }
+
     Map toMap() {
-        final result = new HashMap(10)
+        final result = new HashMap(15)
         result.author = getAuthor()
         result.defaultBranch = getDefaultBranch()
         result.description = getDescription()
@@ -109,6 +129,11 @@ class Manifest {
         result.version = getVersion()
         result.nextflowVersion = getNextflowVersion()
         result.doi = getDoi()
+        result.docsUrl = getDocsUrl()
+        result.icon = getIcon()
+        result.maintainer = getMaintainer()
+        result.organisation = getOrganisation()
+        result.license = getLicense()
         return result
     }
 }
diff --git a/modules/nextflow/src/test/groovy/nextflow/config/ManifestTest.groovy b/modules/nextflow/src/test/groovy/nextflow/config/ManifestTest.groovy
index d189b28f28..8fb398590b 100644
--- a/modules/nextflow/src/test/groovy/nextflow/config/ManifestTest.groovy
+++ b/modules/nextflow/src/test/groovy/nextflow/config/ManifestTest.groovy
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ class ManifestTest extends Specification {
     def 'should check manifest object' () {
 
         given:
-        def MAN = [author: 'pablo', nextflowVersion: '1.2.3', name: 'foo']
-
+        def MAN = [author: 'pablo', nextflowVersion: '1.2.3', name: 'foo',
+                   maintainer: 'john', organisation: 'My Organisation', icon: 'icon.png',
+                   docsUrl: 'https://docs.io', license: 'Apache v2']
         when:
         def manifest = new Manifest(MAN)
         then:
@@ -35,6 +36,11 @@ class ManifestTest extends Specification {
             author == 'pablo'
             nextflowVersion == '1.2.3'
             name == 'foo'
+            maintainer == 'john'
+            organisation == 'My Organisation'
+            icon == 'icon.png'
+            docsUrl == 'https://docs.io'
+            license == 'Apache v2'
         }
 
     }
@@ -55,6 +61,11 @@ class ManifestTest extends Specification {
             nextflowVersion == null
             version == null
             name == null
+            maintainer == null
+            docsUrl == null
+            organisation == null
+            icon == null
+            license == null
         }
 
     }