Features introduced in GitLab in reverse chronological order, as found in the RSS Feed of the Blog and the changelog.
15 February 2024
Free Software
- When reviewing a merge request, a “Request Change” comment can block the merge.
- Rich text editor broader availability
- CI
- GitLab Runner 16.9: Make kubernetes API retries configurable
- variables can:
- have a description
- detect duplicates
- have character validation warning
- simplify the UX to add or edit multiple variables
- workflows marked as
auto_cancel:on_new_commitwill be canceled when the commit associated with them changes. If marked asinterruptible: trueit will also have an impact on jobs currently in the pending state.
- Custom guidelines for managing group and project members
- Updated ~40 default GitLab SAST analyzer
- Kubernetes 1.29 support
- Access usage data through the REST API for instance service ping
- Terraform registry
- validate modules from your group or subgroup
- allow duplicate modules
- Deploy: allow users to cleanup partial resources from failed deployments
- Show import stats for direct transfer
- REST API support for the GitLab for Slack app
Not Free Software
- GitLab Duo Chat is still in Beta and available to more customers
- Limit concurrent Elasticsearch code-indexing jobs
- Authenticate and sign commits with SSH certificates
- Control which roles can cancel CI pipelines or jobs
- Enterprise user email address accessible through UI and API
- Add or remove service accounts from groups with LDAP group sync
- Improved UX for expired SAML SSO sessions
- Audit event for updating or deleting a custom role
- More detailed security findings in VS Code
- Improvements to Operational Container Scanning (OCS)
- Fleet Dashboard: Compute minutes used on instance runners per project metric card
- Control which roles can cancel pipelines or jobs
- New stage events for custom Value Stream Analytics
- Boards work in progress line
- Enable Jira issues at the group level