GitLab release notes/Changelog

GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/. Gitlab release a new minor version monthly.

Releases

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/ and https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/
• https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/index.html

12.x (2020)

• 12.8 Feb 2020
  • Log Explorer
  • Built-in NuGet repository
  • Compliance Dashboard
  • Docker image tag expiration policies
  • Network Policies in GitLab-managed Kubernetes clusters
  • Automatically stop environments after a specified period gitlab-ci.yml

• 12.7 Jan 2020
  • Delete a pipeline from the UI
  • Parent-Child Pipelines
  • Pipeline Resource Groups. To limit pipeline concurrency to force jobs to execute sequentially.
  • application.log and application_json.log
  • Dependency Scanning
  • Instance-level Security Dashboard

12.x (2019)

• 12.6 Dec 2019
  • GitLab Conan Repository (GitLab Premium)
  • Project Security Grades (Ultimate and Gold)
  • Automated Release Evidence collection to support audits: Evidence collection JSON file
  • View your Security and Compliance config from a centralized interface

• 12.3 22/09/2019
  • Code owners per branch approval (Ultimate and Premium versions)
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) focused is on monitoring and reporting of security concerns related to your Kubernetes clusters
  • Productivity Analytics available in premium and ultimate version
  • Enhanced compliance: Merge Request (MR) approval based on license (Ultimate version)
  • rule keyword in .gitlab-ci.yml for controlling pipeline behaviors
  • Mattermost 5.14 included
  • enhanced Jira integration
  • 12.3.1
  • 12.3.2 Security: Account Takeover using SAML
  • 12.3.3 security for enabled Elasticsearch installations
  • 12.3.4 Fix release: GitLab Geo: LFS not being synced"
  • 12.3.5 Oct 7, 2019 Security for enabled Elasticsearch installations

• 22/08/2019 12.2
  • needs: keyword in .gitlab-ci.ymlhttps://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/22/gitlab-12-2-released/index.html#directed-acyclic-graphs-dag-for-gitlab-pipelines
    • 10/09/2019 12.2.5 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/10/critical-security-release-gitlab-12-dot-2-dot-5-released/
    • 12.2.8

• 22/07/2019 12.1
  • Let's Encrypt support for Gitlab Pages
  • Annotate GitLab incidents with Prometheus alert attributes
  • Require use of a smartcard for Git activity
  • MySQL support removed
    • 12.1.2
    • 12.1.6
    • 12.1.14

• 22/06/2019 12.0
  • Limit access based on IP address
  • Visual reviews
  • Project dependency list / BOM (Ultimate version)
  • Deploying JupyterHub via GitLab’s Kubernetes integration

11.x (2018 - 2019)

11.11 22/05/2019

• Multiple Assignees for a Merge Request
• Automated deployment event notifications for Slack and Mattermost
• Caching Dependency Proxy for your Docker images (Premium version)
• Instance-level Kubernetes cluster configuration
• Guest access to releases
  • 12/08/2019 11.11.8 Security fixes: CVE-2019-14942 CVE-2019-14943 CVE-2019-14944
  • 11.11.7 Security fixes
  • 11.11.5 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/03/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-0-dot-3-released/ Security fixes
  • 11.11.4 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/26/gitlab-12-0-2-11-11-4-11-10-7-released/ Regressions fixes
    • Prometheus 1.x deprecated
  • 11.11.3 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/10/gitlab-11-11-3-released/ Regressions and bug fixing
  • 11.11.2 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/05/gitlab-11-11-2-released/ Regressions and bug fixing
  • 11.11.1 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/03/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-11-dot-1-released/ CVE-2019-12430

• 22/04/2019 11.10
  • Pipelines in the operation dashboard
  • 11.10.8 - 03/07/2019 https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/03/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-0-dot-3-released/ Security fixes
  • 11.10.7 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/26/gitlab-12-0-2-11-11-4-11-10-7-released/
  • 11.10.6 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/05/gitlab-11-10-6-released/
  • 11.10.5 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/03/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-11-dot-1-released/
  • 11.10.4 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/01/gitlab-11-10-4-released/
  • 11.10.3 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/30/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-10-dot-3-released/
  • 11.10.2 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/29/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-10-dot-2-released/
  • 11.10.1 - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/24/gitlab-11-10-1-released/

• 11.9

• 22/02/2019 11.8
  • Error Tracking with Sentry
  • Merge Request approval rules (disabled by default) (Premium and Ultimate versions)

• 22/12/2018 11.6 https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/22/gitlab-11-6-released/
  • Authenticate with a smart card hardware token

• 22/10/2018 11.4 https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/22/gitlab-11-4-released/
  • Prometheus 2.4.2

• 22/09/2018 11.3
  • Code owners (Not in core version)
  • Building Maven repositories directly into GitLab (Premium version)
  • extends as alternative to YAML anchors in .gitlab-ci.yml

• 22/07/2018 11.1 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/07/22/gitlab-11-1-released/
  • Security Dashboards and enhanced code search

• 22/06/2018 11.0 https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/22/gitlab-11-0-released/
  • Auto DevOps General Available and enabled by default in 11.3 release

10.x (2017-2018)

• 10.8
  • Upgrade paths are enforced for version upgrades by default

• 10.7
  • Automatic Let’s Encrypt Renewal https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/ssl.html#automatic-lets-encrypt-renewal

• 10.3
  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/sast/

• January 2018 10.4 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/01/22/gitlab-10-4-released/
  • DAST https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dast/

• 22/09/2017 10.0 https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/22/gitlab-10-0-released/
  • Auto DevOps feature included

9.x (2017)

• 9.3
  • Multi-project pipelines (Premium version)
• 22/03/2017 9.0 https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/
  • Prometheus is now on by default

8.x (2015)

• xx/xx/xxxx 8.12 Notification settings API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/notification_settings.html

• 22/09/2015 8.0 https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/22/gitlab-8-0-released/
  • Continous Integration (CI) included by default
  • LDAP integration
  • Git annex for large files, later deprecated in favour of Git LFS
  • Mattermost Improvements
  • SSL Verification for Web Hooks

7.x (2014)

• 7.0 22/06/2014 https://about.gitlab.com/2014/06/22/gitlab-7-dot-0-released/

Activities

• Read Gitlab update documentation: https://about.gitlab.com/update/

See also

• GitLab: Install GitLab, Upgrade GitLab Gitlab runner (changelog), gitlab.rb, .gitlab/, gitlab-ci.yml, gitlab-ctl, gitlab-rake, gitlab-backup, gitlab-rails, GitLab editions, GitLab Security Dashboards, GitLab environments, GitLab environment variables, Auto DevOps, permissions, GitLab Pages, gitlab-rails, GitLab scheduled pipelines, GitLab logs, GitLab changelog , GitLab Release CLI, GitLab Omnibus, GitLab Advanced Search, GitLab container registry, GitLab infrastructure registry
• TeamCity Release Notes

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#leverage-policies-to-remove-docker-images

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#automatically-stop-environments-after-a-specified-period

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/conan_repository/

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/12/22/gitlab-12-6-released/#quickly-understand-your-at-risk-projects-with-project-security-grades

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/12/22/gitlab-12-6-released/#automated-release-evidence-collection-to-support-audits

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/22/gitlab-12-3-released/#leverage-merge-request-approvals-to-prevent-merging-prohibited-licenses-mvc

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#needs

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/index.html#annotate-gitlab-incidents-with-prometheus-alert-attributes

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/index.html#require-use-of-a-smartcard-for-git-activity

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/05/22/gitlab-11-11-released/#multiple-assignees-for-merge-requests

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/05/22/gitlab-11-11-released/#instance-level-kubernetes-cluster-configuration

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/05/22/gitlab-11-11-released/#guest-access-to-releases

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/update/gitlab_12_changes.md

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/operations_dashboard/

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/22/gitlab-11-8-released/#merge-request-approval-rules

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/index.html#require-use-of-a-smartcard-for-git-activity

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/22/gitlab-11-3-released/#code-owners

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#extends

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/22/gitlab-9-3-released/#multi-project-pipeline-graphs