GitLab
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GitLab
⚠️ This app is RAM-intensive (+6GB recommended) and can take 15-20 minutes to start after installation on low-powered devices.
🔐 After installing the App, you can create a new user account via web interface, or you can connect via SSH/Terminal and change the root password by running the gitlab-rake "gitlab:password:reset[root]" command
GitLab is a comprehensive, web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a robust platform for managing projects and repositories. It offers a wide range of features that cater to the entire software development lifecycle, including version control, CI/CD, code review, issue tracking, and more. All operations are performed in a secure, collaborative environment, ensuring your code and data are safe and accessible.
📁 Repository Management GitLab provides a full-featured GUI for creating, managing, and organizing repositories. You can clone, fork, and browse repositories with ease. Advanced features like branch management, tagging, and merging are also available, enabling efficient version control and collaboration.
🔄️ Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Automate your software development process with GitLab's powerful CI/CD pipelines. Easily configure builds, tests, and deployments to streamline your workflow. GitLab CI/CD supports multiple languages and frameworks, ensuring compatibility with your existing tools and processes.
🛡️ Security & Compliance Ensure the security and compliance of your projects with GitLab's built-in security features. Perform static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), dependency scanning, container scanning, and more. GitLab also offers audit logs, compliance management, and code quality checks to maintain high standards.
👥 Collaboration & Code Review Enhance team collaboration with GitLab's integrated code review and discussion tools. Perform peer reviews, leave comments, and suggest changes directly within the platform. GitLab's merge request system simplifies the code review process, making it easy to propose, discuss, and approve changes.
📈 Project Management Manage your projects efficiently with GitLab's project management features. Track issues, plan sprints, and visualize progress with boards, milestones, and burndown charts. GitLab also integrates with popular project management tools, allowing seamless synchronization of tasks and updates.
🛠️ Other Features: Leverage GitLab's extensive set of tools to optimize your development process. Use the integrated wiki for documentation, manage packages with GitLab's built-in package registry, monitor performance with Prometheus and Grafana integration, and deploy applications with Kubernetes support. GitLab also offers robust APIs for extending functionality and integrating with other services.
GitLab is your all-in-one DevOps platform, empowering your team to build, deploy, and manage projects with ease and efficiency.
This release of GitLab comes with multiple new features and improvements.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements in this release:
- GitLab Duo Planner, a specialized agent and Product Manager team member (beta)
- GitLab Security Analyst Agent for Duo Agent Catalog (beta)
- Maven virtual registry now available in beta
- Pick up where you left off on the new personal homepage
- GPT-5 now available as a model option for GitLab Duo Agentic Chat
- Instance-wide compliance and security policy management
- DAST authentication scripts
- Configure status lifecycles for issues and tasks
- Format markdown tables in the plain text editor
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/16/gitlab-18-5-released/
This release of GitLab comes with multiple new features and improvements.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements in this release:
- GitLab Duo Model Selection is now generally available, giving organizations greater control over AI models powering development workflows
- GitLab Knowledge Graph provides rich code intelligence across your codebase, enhancing context for developers and AI agents
- End-user model selection for GitLab Duo is now in public beta on GitLab.com
- CI/CD job tokens can now authenticate Git push requests to the project's repository
- GitLab Duo context exclusion allows control over which project content is excluded as context for GitLab Duo
- Expanded AWS region support for GitLab Dedicated
- Simulate CI/CD Pipelines against different branches in the pipeline editor
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/18/gitlab-18-4-released/
This release of GitLab comes with multiple new features and improvments.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements in this release:
- New Duo Agent Platform in IDEs enables conversational interaction with codebases and GitLab projects (Beta)
- Custom workflow statuses for issues and tasks allow defining stages beyond open/closed
- Redesigned merge request homepage with workflow and role views for better organization
- Immutable container tags prevent unintended changes to critical image versions
- Group and project-level controls for GitLab Duo features in Premium/Ultimate tiers
- New group overview compliance dashboard provides aggregated compliance insights
- Ability to map workspace Kubernetes agents across an entire GitLab instance
- PDF export option added for security reports
- Centralized security policy management for consistent enforcement across projects (Beta)
- Maven virtual registry simplifies dependency management (Beta)
- Duo Code Review assistant is now generally available for production use
- Compromised password detection added for GitLab.com native credentials
- New CI/CD components to help achieve SLSA Level 1 compliance
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/17/gitlab-18-2-released/
🚨 This version contains important security fixes and we strongly recommend updating immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements in this release:
- Multiple security vulnerabilities have been fixed
- Improved stability and performance
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/05/15/gitlab-18-0-released/
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 18.0:
- GitLab Premium and Ultimate with Duo
- Repository X-Ray now available on GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
- Automatic reviews with Duo Code Review
- Code Suggestions prompt caching
- Improved Duo Code Review context
- Various improvements and bug fixes
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/05/15/gitlab-18-0-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.11:
- Customize compliance frameworks with requirements and compliance controls
- GitLab Eclipse plugin available in beta
- More GitLab Duo features now available on GitLab Duo Self-Hosted
- Extension marketplace for Web IDE on self-managed instances
- GitLab Duo with Amazon Q is generally available
- Enhance security with protected container tags
- Safeguard your registry with protected Maven packages
- Epic, issue, and task custom fields
- New issue look now generally available
- Service accounts UI
- Automated Duo Pro and Duo Enterprise seat assignment
- CI/CD pipeline inputs
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/04/17/gitlab-17-11-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.10:
- Duo Code Review available in beta
- Root Cause Analysis available on Gitlab Duo Self-Hosted
- Expanded AWS Regions available for GitLab Dedicated failover instances
- GitLab Query Language views Beta
- Enhanced markdown experience
- New visualization of DevOps performance with DORA metrics across projects
- New issues look now in beta
- Description templates for epics, issues, tasks, objectives and key results
- Change the severity of a vulnerability
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/03/20/gitlab-17-10-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.9:
- Gitlab Duo Self-Hosted is generally available
- Run multiple Pages sites with parallel deployments
- Add project files to Duo Chat in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs
- Workspaces container support with Sysbox
- Create workspaces without a custom devfile
- GitLab-managed Kubernetes resources
- Simplified access to deployments within project environments
- Wiki page comments
- Automatic CI/CD pipeline cleanup
Full release notes are available at: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/02/20/gitlab-17-9-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.8 :
- Enhance security with protected container repositories
- List the deployments related to a release
- Machine learning model experiments tracking in GA
- Track multiple to-do items in an issue or merge request
- Primary domain redirect for GitLab Pages
- Pipeline limits available in GitLab Community Edition
- Bug and security fixes, performance improvements, and UI improvements
Full release notes are available at : https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/16/gitlab-17-8-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.7 :
- New Planner user role
- New user contribution and membership mapping available in direct transfer
- Rotate personal, project, and group access tokens in the UI
- Set your preferred text editor as default
- Unicode 15.1 emoji support
- Kubernetes 1.31 support
- Bug fixes, performance improvements, and UI improvements
Full release notes are available at : https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/12/19/gitlab-17-7-released/
⚠️ This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
The GitLab UI may be unresponsive for a few minutes after the update, which is completely normal.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.6:
- Use self-hosted model for GitLab Duo Chat
- Enhanced merge request reviewer assignments
- Display release notes on deployment details page
- Admin setting to enforce CI/CD job token allowlist
- Track CI/CD job token authentications
- Vulnerability report grouping
- Model registry now generally available
- New tenant networking configurations for GitLab Dedicated
- New adherence checks for SAST and DAST security scanners
Full release notes are available at : https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/11/21/gitlab-17-6-released/
This version contains important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab installations be upgraded immediately.
Key improvements released in GitLab 17.4 and 17.5 :
- Enhanced branch rules editing capabilities
- Auto-merge when all checks pass
- Extension marketplace now available in the Web IDE
- List Kubernetes resource events
- GitLab Pages without wildcard DNS is generally available
- GitLab Pages parallel deployments in beta
- Advanced SAST is generally available
- Hide CI/CD variable values in the UI
Fixes :
- Improve OpenSSL callout message
- Change urgency of API project/:id/share to low
- Check commit message for issue close pattern setting
- Backport: Fixes issues with incorrectly displaying VR button
- Backport: Fix incorrect gitlab-shell-check filename into 17.4
- Update OpenSSL v3 callout to delay update to GitLab 17.7
- Fix Code Review AI features policies to check duo features enabled toggle
Full release notes are available at : https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/10/17/gitlab-17-5-released/
