GitLab release notes/Changelog

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

• Minor version monthly
• Major version yearly in May

• Admin -> Dashboard, search for GitLab component

Releases

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/ and https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/
• https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/index.html
• Maintenance policy: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/policy/maintenance.html#:~:text=View%20pricing%20to%20see%20all,all%20features%20for%2030%20days.

15.x (2022)

• May 2022 15.0
  • PostgreSQL 13.6 , older relese will keep PostgreSQL 12
  • AES256-GCM-SHA384 SSL cipher will not be allowed by NGINX by default
    • 2022 15.0.4
    • Jul 2020 15.0.5
  • Jun 2022 - 15.1 (15.1.5)
    • 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 (15.2.3)
  • • 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 ( 15.3.1, 15.3.2, 15.3.3 ,15.3.4)
  • • Add approval rules for all protected branche
    • Create annotated tags using the Release CLI
    • Omnibus: Mattermost 7.1

• 15.4 (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
  • • Deploy apps to Google Cloud with GitLab Cloud Seed
    • Autocomplete suggestions in the Content Editor
    • Rule Mode for Scan Execution Policies

• 15.6, 15.6.1, 15.6.2, 15.6.3, 15.6.4
  • • Support for special characters in CI/CD variables
    • rules: exists
    • Git abuse rate limiting
    • DAST API analyzer for on-demand DAST API scans

• 15.7, 15.7.1, 15.7.2, 15.7.3, 15.7.4, 15.7.5
  • Retry a manual job with updated variables

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 (only Premium and Ultimate)
  • Select CI/CD configuration from any job and reuse it
  • Follow user activity

Minor releases:

• 13.9.3 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/08/gitlab-13-9-3-released/
• 13.9.2 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/04/security-release-gitlab-13-9-2-released/

• 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 , new secrets syntax in (gitlab-ci.yml) (Requires premium)
  • Kubernetes Agent
• 13.3 August 2020
• 13.2 July 2020

• 13.1 Jun 2020
  • 13.1.11 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/04/gitlab-13-3-5-released/
  • 13.1.6 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/08/05/gitlab-13-2-3-released/
  • 13.1.5 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/24/gitlab-13-1-5-released/
  • 13.1.4 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/09/gitlab-13-1-4-released/
  • 13.1.3 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/06/critical-security-release-gitlab-13-1-3-released/
  • 13.1.2 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/01/security-release-13-1-2-release/

• 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
  • Autoscaling CI on AWS Fargate
  • HashiCorp Vault secrets in CI jobs as variables

Minor releases:

• 12.10.14 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/06/critical-security-release-gitlab-13-1-3-released/ Jul 2020
• 12.10.13 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/01/security-release-13-1-2-release/

• 12.9 Mar 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, auto_stop_in
  • Instance-level Security Dashboard
  • artifacts: true on your needs:
  • Git protocol v2 over HTTP
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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

• 12.5 Nov 2019
  • EKS cluster creation
  • Crossplane
  • Sourcegraph integration
  • Environment dashboards
  • Delete source branch once merged , 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

• 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)
  • rule keyword in .gitlab-ci.yml for controlling pipeline behaviors
  • Per job timeout:
  • 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]

• masking of protected variables in logs
• 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

• 22/11/2018 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 (Not in core version)
  • Building Maven repositories directly into GitLab (Premium version)
  • extends as alternative to YAML anchors in .gitlab-ci.yml

• 22 Aug 2018 11.2 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/

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

• 22 June 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

• 8.9 U2F support https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/06/22/gitlab-adds-support-for-u2f/

• 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/

Related terms

• Semantic versioning
• gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info | grep -w ^Version
• GitLab Upgrade

See also

• Upgrade GitLab, GitLab Omnibus, GitLab logs, check_gitlab_status.sh, apt-cache madison gitlab-ee, GitLab Changelog
• TeamCity Release Notes
• Software changelogs, git log, GA, EoL, EOS, release cycle, apt changelog, docker-compose changelog

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/05/22/gitlab-15-0-released/#omnibus-improvements

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/22/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-3-1-released/

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/22/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-3-1-released/

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/22/gitlab-13-9-released/#maintenance-mode

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/22/gitlab-13-9-released/#select-cicd-configuration-from-any-job-and-reuse-it

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/02/22/gitlab-13-9-released/#follow-user-activity

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/22/gitlab-13-4-released/#use-hashicorp-vault-secrets-in-ci-jobs

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/04/22/gitlab-12-10-released/#create-and-view-requirements-in-gitlab

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://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#instance-level-security-dashboard

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#automatically-bring-in-artifacts-from-cross-project-jobs

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-released/#git-protocol-v2

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/01/22/gitlab-12-7-released/#parent-child-pipelines

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/releases/2019/11/22/gitlab-12-5-released/#environments-dashboard

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/11/22/gitlab-12-5-released/#delete-source-branch-once-merged

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/11/22/gitlab-12-5-released/#slack-slash-command-to-add-comment-to-issue

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

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2019/09/22/gitlab-12-3-released/#per-job-timeouts-for-cicd-pipelines

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