Releases

15.x (2022)

May 2022 15.0 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/05/22/gitlab-15-0-released/
- PostgreSQL 13.6 ^[1], older relese will keep PostgreSQL 12
- AES256-GCM-SHA384 SSL cipher will not be allowed by NGINX by default
  - Jun 2022 15.0.4 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/06/30/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-1-1-released/
  - Jul 2020 15.0.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/07/28/security-release-gitlab-15-2-1-released/
- Jun 2022 - 15.1 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/06/22/gitlab-15-1-released/ (15.1.5) ^[2]
  - SAML Group Syn
  - Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)-2 attestation included for build artifacts
  - Link to included CI/CD configuration from the pipeline editor

Jul 2022 15.2 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/07/22/gitlab-15-2-released/ (15.2.3) ^[3]
- - Incident timelines https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/07/22/gitlab-15-2-released/#incident-timeline
  - Merge report redesign https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/07/22/gitlab-15-2-released/#merge-request-reports-redesign

Aug 2022 15.3 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/22/gitlab-15-3-released/ (15.3.1 ^[4], 15.3.2 ^[5], 15.3.3, 15.3.4^[6])
- - Add approval rules for all protected branche
  - Create annotated tags using the Release CLI
  - Omnibus: Mattermost 7.1

15.4 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/09/22/gitlab-15-4-released/ (15.4.6,15.4.1)
- - Suggested Reviewers open beta
  - Limit the maximum number of custom domains per project
  - Getting started with GitLab Pages just got easier
  - Improved CI/CD integration in VS Code
  - Sortable, filterable data-driven tables in Markdown
  - Users on verified domains can bypass email validation
  - Add linked resources to incident issues
  - More powerful Linux machine types for GitLab SaaS runners

15.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/10/22/gitlab-15-5-released/

15.6
- - Support for special characters in CI/CD variables
  - rules: exists

14.x (2021)

Jun 2022 14.0 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-0-released/
- Apr 2022 - 14.10 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/04/22/gitlab-14-10-released/
  - 14.10.1
  - 14.10.5 Jun https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/06/30/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-1-1-released/
- Mar 2022 - 14.9 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/03/22/gitlab-14-9-released/
  - 14.9.5 - https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/06/01/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-0-1-released/
- Feb 2022 - 14.8 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/02/22/gitlab-14-8-released/
  - Feb 2022 - 14.8.2 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/02/25/critical-security-release-gitlab-14-8-2-released/
- XXX 2022 - 14.7
  - Backup terraform state files https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/331806
  - Backup Package registry files https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/332006
- xxx 2022 - 14.6
- xxx 2022 - 14.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/11/22/gitlab-14-5-released/

13.x (2021)

13.10 Mar 2021
- GitLab Runner Operator for Open Shift

13.9 Feb 2021
- Maintenance mode ^[7] (only Premium and Ultimate)
- Select CI/CD configuration from any job and reuse it ^[8]
- Follow user activity ^[9]

Minor releases:

13.8 Jan 2021
- 13.8.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/04/security-release-gitlab-13-9-2-released/
- 13.8.4 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/11/security-release-gitlab-13-8-4-released/

13.x (2020)

13.7 December 2020
- 13.7.8 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/04/security-release-gitlab-13-9-2-released/
- 13.7.7 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/11/security-release-gitlab-13-8-4-released/
13.6 November 2020
- 13.6.7 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/11/security-release-gitlab-13-8-4-released/
13.5 October 2020
- Group wikis
13.4 September 2020
- Use HashiCorp Vault secrets in CI jobs as variables ^[10], new secrets syntax in (gitlab-ci.yml) (Requires premium)
- Kubernetes Agent
13.3 August 2020
13.2 July 2020

13.1 Jun 2020

13.0 May 2020
- Gitaly Clusters
- Epic Hierarchy on Roadmaps
- Auto Deploy to ECS
- GitLab can be used as an HTTP backend for Terraform

- 13.0.12 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/08/05/gitlab-13-2-3-released/
- 13.0.9 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/06/critical-security-release-gitlab-13-1-3-released/

12.x (2020)

12.10 Apr 2020 (Latest 12.x release)
- Create and view requirements in GitLab ^[11]
- Autoscaling CI on AWS Fargate
- HashiCorp Vault secrets in CI jobs as variables

Minor releases:

12.9 Mar 2020

12.8 Feb 2020
- Log Explorer
- Built-in NuGet repository
- Compliance Dashboard
- Docker image tag expiration policies ^[12]
- Network Policies in GitLab-managed Kubernetes clusters
- Automatically stop environments after a specified period^[13] gitlab-ci.yml, auto_stop_in
- Instance-level Security Dashboard^[14]
- artifacts: true on your needs: ^[15]
- Git protocol v2 over HTTP^[16]
- NPM Registry to support NPM distribution tags
- PostgreSQL 11 (optional)
- GitLab self monitoring project https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#gitlab-self-monitoring-project

12.7 Jan 2020
- Delete a pipeline from the UI
- Parent-Child Pipelines ^[17]
- Pipeline Resource Groups. To limit pipeline concurrency to force jobs to execute sequentially.
- application.log and application_json.log
- Dependency Scanning

12.x (2019)

12.6 Dec 2019
- GitLab Conan Repository (GitLab Premium) ^[18]
- Project Security Grades ^[19] (Ultimate and Gold)
- Automated Release Evidence collection to support audits: Evidence collection JSON file^[20]
- View your Security and Compliance config from a centralized interface

12.5 Nov 2019
- EKS cluster creation
- Crossplane
- Sourcegraph integration
- Environment dashboards^[21]
- Delete source branch once merged ^[22], feature branches are deleted by default to keep your project clean and tidy.
- View important Sentry error details
- Slack slash command to add comment to issue ^[23]

12.4 October 2019
- Merge Request Dependencies

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)^[24]
- 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:^[25] 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^[26]
- Require use of a smartcard for Git activity^[27]
- 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]

masking of protected variables in logs
Multiple Assignees for a Merge Request^[28]
Automated deployment event notifications for Slack and Mattermost
Caching Dependency Proxy for your Docker images (Premium version)
Instance-level Kubernetes cluster configuration^[29]
Guest access to releases ^[30]
- 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^[31]
- 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^[32]
- 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)^[33] (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^[34]

22/11/2018 11.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/11/22/gitlab-11-5-released/
- Group Security
- Operations Dashboards
- Access Control for Pages

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 ^[35] (Not in core version)
- Building Maven repositories directly into GitLab (Premium version)
- extends^[36] as alternative to YAML anchors in .gitlab-ci.yml