Friday, 22 April 2022 / Published in Brand, GitLab, Product

GitLab 14 – Releases and Updates

GitLab 14 as the Future of DevOps

Over the years, GitLab had served the world with a complete DevOps platform and stood strongly in several market reports through enhancements across the software development lifecycle. In June 2021, GitLab proudly announced the released of GitLab 14 or the future of GitLab. Also viewed as the future of DevOps – GitLab 14 is a complete DevOps Platform with built-in security.

GitLab 14 Capabilities:

With GitLab 14, you can build and deliver software with velocity, trust, and visibility. GitLab 14 speeds up the modern DevOps through efficient developer and operator experience thus giving you a more predictable SDLC. Moreover, streamlined collaboration using one tool for source code management, CI, CD and security enables the team to be more productive and efficient. As the law of attraction applies ‘Like attracts like’, GitLab results in happier developer. The happier your developers, the more talent they attracts and retain.

Security has become similarly important to faster delivery of products or softwares. In order to improve security and increase visibility, GitLab 14 is embedded with new vulnerability management capabilities such as semgrep analyzer as application security testing while acquisitions of Fuzzit and Peach Tech and GitLab’s new proprietary browser-based DAST crawler, test modern APIs and Single Page Applications (SPAs) are also equipped in Gitlab 14 to meet the modern DevOps requirement.

GitLab 14 provides visibility into bottlenecks thus letting your team to build and develop with confidence through out of the box operational metrics including DORA metrics like deployment frequency and lead time.

Features in GitLab 14:

Epic Boards
Terraform module registry built into GitLab
Merge request reviews in VS Code
Sidebar navigation redesign
Edit wiki pages with the WYSIWYG Markdown editor
Aggregate identical DAST vulnerabilities into a single vulnerability
Cluster management project template
Prepopulate the CI/CD pipeline editor with an initial template
Container Scanning Integration with Trivy
Lead time for merge requests at the group level

Improvements

Horizontal navigation for project-level Value Stream Analytics
Identify provisioned users at group level
Instance-level DevOps Adoption report enabled by default
Upgrade the interface for adding groups to the DevOps Adoption table
Added SSH keys can be enabled by default
Addition of pronouns into GitLab user profiles
Ability to track usage of Code Owners
Direct editing on project name and project slugs during forking
Slack notification service on usage of wiki edits
GitLab Runner 14
Add ‘~’ to supported characters for CI/CD variable masking
Predefined CI/CD variable for environment action
Delete associated package files through UI
Memory usage through performance bar
Security report generalised details structure
Pin to Specific SAST Analyser Versions
Static Analysis Analyser Updates
Specific page for features flags of user list
Ability to change Issue types
SLA Timer updates through dynamical updates
Database load balancing moved to Free
Container Scanning Integration with Grype
Geo support for PostgreSQL high availability in GA
Geo needs confirmation before resyncing all projects
GitLab upgraded to Ruby on Rails to version 6.1
Chart and omnibus improvement
Redesign for Geo sites dashboard
Project storage location available in REST and GraphQL APIs
Bug Fixes

In respond to GitLab monthly release, we dedicated this page for every new releases to ease your search for GitLab 14 newest features. Feel free to contact E-SPIN regarding product and related matter (if any). The details of the latest release and updates are presented in the manner where the latest release is shown at the top of the post and then followed with the previous releases.

GitLab 14.10 release (2022-Apr-22)

GitLab 14.10 release involves more than 25 improvements.

Key improvements:

1. Compliance report for individual violation reporting

Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate

Capabilities – Now, users can also view history and violation pattern over time for every individual merge request violation for the projects within a group.

2. GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes

Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate

Capabilities -This release allows users to use GitLab Runner Operator in v1.7.0 which is available on OperatorHub.io in non-Openshift Kubernetes clusters.

3. User interface for streaming audit events

Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate

Capabilities – Users can now applies GitLab UI for streaming audit events set up.

The GitLab UI that is accessible through new streams in the group audit event allows users to easily:
– add and remove streaming audit event destinations.
– view the location list of the streaming audit events are being sent to.

4. Escalating manually created incidents

Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate

Capabilities – Paging on manually created incidents is made possible in this release.

Responders are now able to acknowledge the page on incidents, or restart paging by resetting the status to triggered, similar to that being done for alerts.

5. New DORA metric API – Change failure rate

Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate

Capabilities – This release includes fourth DORA metric API, change failure rate. With this feature, GitLab is able to measure the rate of change failure rate as the number of incidents divided by the number of deployments to a production environment in the certain period of time. Executives. Additionally, the DORA metric lets executives who are investing in DevOps transformation will be able to understand ROI on processes being implemented and tools they have purchased via the DORA metrics.

Other improvements:

Importing from GitHub defaults to the current group path
View history of all project imports on a single page
Incremental repository backups reduce backup time
CI/CD Limits set at the Instance Level
Create pipeline schedules for tags in the UI
Expanded view of group runners
GitLab Runner 14.10
Improved pipeline variables inheritance
Java scanning in SAST (easier and faster)
Improved pipeline variables inheritance
Manually create a Vulnerability Record
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Multiple approval rules for deployment approvals API
Agent server for Kubernetes enabled by default in the Helm chart
Install the agent for Kubernetes with Helm
Security policy management user experience improvements
Upload metric screenshots to an Alert
GitLab chart improvements
Geo verifies CI job artifacts
Omnibus improvements
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Usability improvements
Deprecations
Removals

GitLab 14.9 release (2022-Mar-22)
GitLab 14.9 includes more than 40 improvements in its release.
Key improvements:
1. Epic to epic linking support
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – With GitLab 14.9, users can now use “related”, “blocking,” or “blocked” relationships to link epics. Epic to epic linking support helps the teams to efficiently track and manage epic dependencies across GitLab groups.
2. Rule mode for scan result policies
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.9 allows users to utilise rule mode to design and edit scan result policies without the need to edit the policy’s YAML directly.
3. Deployment approval capability
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.9 lets deployment approver to view a pending deployment and approve or reject it with ease directly in the Environments page.
4. Updated design for environments page
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – The new design of the environment page in GitLab 14.9 release make it easy for users to answer key questions about their environments and deployments as they are able to conveniently view the status of the latest deployment and the status for various environments, also which commits have been deployed.
5. API support for Time to Restore Service
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.9 release which is updated with Project Level Time to restore service API enables the team to obtain data to continuously improve in the stability metrics.
6. Integrated security training functionality
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Using GitLab 14.9, users are now able to enable security training to obtain solution that offers context-aware security training options from inside the GitLab experience.
Other improvements:
API endpoint to delete project topics
API for Security & Compliance menu enable and disable
Display total time scatterplot on each value stream stage
Filtering group members by provisioned users (SaaS Premium & Ultimate)
New REST API endpoints (Key & tokens)
New audit events
Notifications for new PATs and email addresses
No Special characters in new project names
Streaming audit events for MR approvals
Ability to recover projects pending deletion
Shortcut to open related issue
Render pasted Markdown in the wiki WYSIWYG editor
Review previously merged commits in merge requests
Artifact sizes are being recalculated (SaaS Premium & Ultimate)
GitLab Runner 14.9
Include the same CI/CD template multiple times
Specify variables when running manual jobs through API
Dependency Scanning adds support for Java 17
Dependency Scanning outputs CycloneDX documents
Static Analysis analyser updates
Add comment when approving/rejecting a deployment
Permanent link to the latest version of a release
Persistent Volumes in Auto DevOps
ARM support for the GitLab agent for Kubernetes
Provision a Kubernetes cluster from GitLab with Terraform
Simplified migration to agent-based connections
View GitLab agent for Kubernetes version in the UI
Add text and links for incident metric images
UI option to enable Container Scanning
Code Search for archived projects that are not indexed by Advanced Search
Geo accelerates static assets when using a unified URL
Geo’s admin area supports secondary-specific actions when using unified URLs
GitLab chart improvements (Self-managed Premium & Ultimate)
Omnibus improvements (Self-managed Premium & Ultimate)
Rate limiting added to Global Search
Searching for issues across groups is now twice as fast
Bug fixes

GitLab 14.8 release (2022-Feb-22)
GitLab 14.8 is updated with more than 25 improvements including new SSH key types, security approval policies, pipeline editor autocomplete and impersonation audit events.
Key improvements:
1. ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk SSH key types support
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – As OpenSSH 8.2 in GitLab14.8 has support for FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators with ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk keys, users can now leverages the hardware-backed SSH authentication.
2. Groups audit events page – User impersonation
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.8 is added with user impersonation for group audit events to allow users to understand events where administrators is impersonating as user in your group.
3. Additional display options for roadmaps
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – The additional progress tracking capabilities to roadmaps in this release allows users to view the percentage of completed epics based on issue count. This feature is useful for team that applies Kanban or other methodologies that do not involve weight on issues in their roadmaps.
Users can also customize level of milestones and include it in the roadmaps to meet your audiences demand.
4. Security approval policies
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – This release provides flexible security approvals that improve users experience such as:
Users can set the responsible individuals that is has authorisation to edit security approval rules. This way rules cannot be easily modified by any users.
Users can create multiple rules and combined together for filtering on certain severity.
Users can enforce two-step approval process to any chosen changes to security approval rules.
Users are able to apply a single set of security policies on multiple development projects to easily maintain a single, rule set.
5. Auto-completion of keywords in the Pipeline Editor
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – This release is added with auto-completion for CI/CD keywords in the pipeline editor to increase accuracy in writing and debugging pipelines.
Other improvements:
Added information or data for deployment frequency graph
Deletion of group and subgroups from the parent group level
Set default issue and merge request templates in a project’s repository
View average and median from DORA4 metrics graphs
GitLab Runner 14.8
Upgraded cleanup of gitconfig file
Apply CI Lint API with other branches or tags
Coverage-guided fuzz test for corpus management
Improve pipeline index page layout
Mutual TLS for DAST scans
Read-only runner details display in the Admin Area
SAST severities now available for .NET
Deployment approval API
Set custom rate limiting for GitLab Pages
On-demand security scan index view
Filters added to Geo sites dashboard
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Omnibus improvements
Latest Release badge for the project
Use modal to invite members and groups
Bug fixes

GitLab 14.7 (2022-Jan-22)
GitLab 14.7 release is upgraded with more that 25 improvements and that include Streaming Audit Events, GitLab Runner compliance with FIPS 140-2, Group Access Tokens.
Key Improvements:
1. GitLab Runner is FIPS 140-2 compliant
Availability – in self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capability- GitLab Runner is in compliance with FIPS 140-2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distributions as well as AMD64 compute architectures.
2. Streaming audit events
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Users are now able to stream audit event to the favourable destination. Use the new GraphQL API to specify HTTPS endpoint.
3. Group access tokens
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – using group access tokens, users can apply a single token to carry out actions for groups, manage the projects within the group and, in GitLab 14.2 and then, authenticate with Git over HTTPS.
Other improvements:
Direct delete labels ability in the Edit Label page
GitLab UI identifies locked user for administrators
LDAP failover support
Project names of records added to value stream stage table
Personalization questions during group creation (disable setting by administrators)
Bulk delete artifacts with API
GitLab Runner 14.7
Runner status badges in Admin view
Sort Docker tags in the Container Registry browser
Major Gitleaks performance improvements
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Direct delete a GitLab Agent for Kubernetes from GitLab UI
GitLab CI/CD with OpenID Connect support
Backup and restore supports Terraform state files
Go to Git blame from code search results
Backup and restore supports package registry files
Omnibus improvements
Bug fixes
Performance improvements
Usability improvements

GitLab Release 14.6 (2021-Dec-22)
GitLab 14.6 release focuses on delivering simplified Geo configuration and SAST improvements.
The improvements varies from seamless geo experience, SAST execution policies, .NET 6 support and much more.
Key Features:
1. Simplified Geo configuration for seamless experience
Availability – in SaaS self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – With GitLab 14.6, users can obtain a single URL from the system administrator to automatically use the closest Geo site. Geo secondary sites transparently proxy write requests to the primary site and at the same time accelerates most read requests. GitLab lets users to benefit from Geo without the need to use different configuration or concern about the type of operations that does not work on Geo secondary sites.
Now, globally distributed teams are able to take advantage on the accelerated git clone or git pull commands, and a seamless worldwide experience.
In GitLab 14.6, new Geo installation involves enabling secondary proxying and unified URL support by default while for an existing Geo installation, users can set up a unified URL and then enable secondary proxying.
2. GitLab’s Agent for cluster’s activity information
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.6 is equipped with activity list for GitLab Agent that able to monitor the cluster’s activity.
3. Toggle wiki editors seamlessly
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.6 allows users to easily switch between two editing experiences without committing their changes as well as choosing the suitable editor based on needs at any given moment.
Other Improvements:
Private contributions visible in the contribution calendar graph
Set maximum number of days for SSH key validity
Utilise API to move a subgroup under parent group
WebAuthn enabled by default
Copy code blocks in Markdown with one single click
Render the title of a referenced issue within markdown
Updated product icons (lighter stroke-width)
Complete squash commit messages template
GitLab Runner 14.6
View inline the change that outdated a merge request thread
Jobs API for gathering jobs failure data
Webhook triggered for pending jobs
Publish and download Conan packages with or without user and channel field.
Support job:when and rules simultaneously in CI/CD configuration
Custom ruleset composability for SAST and Secret Detection
Support HTTPS_proxy settings of Retire.js
Enable automatic TTL Dependency Proxy cleanup policies from the UI
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Apply Deploy Tokens to download Composer dependencies
Variable DS_EXCLUDED_PATHS behaviour changed to pre-filter
SAST Support for .NET 6
/promote_to_incident for quick action in promoting an issue to an incident
customize deduplication of container scanning vulnerabilities
Auto deletion of old deployment git references
Dependency List of system dependencies with Container Scanning results
Unlink security policy projects
Automatic verification of four additional data types using Geo
GitLab chart improvements
Omnibus improvements
Bug Fixes

GitLab Release 14.5 (2021-Nov-22)
GitLab 14.5 release comes with more than 40 improvements.
Among the improvements are infrastructure as code (IaC) security scanning, group-level merge request approvals settings, Kubernetes Agent available in GitLab Free and project topics.
Key Features:
1.Security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – With IaC scanner, user are provided with supports configuration files for AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes as well as the ability to join GitLab’s existing Kubernetes manifest SAST scanner.
2. Permissions control with CI/CD tunnel – CI/CD job impersonation
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can specify impersonations and manage the impersonated account permissions through Kubernetes RBAC rules.
3. Improved Jupyter Notebook Files
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users are able to review substance easily without caring about formattingpieces according to the requirement in Jupyter Notebook.
4.Geo offers a single command to promote a secondary node
Availability – in Self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Administrator can promote any node in geo secondary to primary through gitlab-ctl geo promote.
5. Explore project topics tab
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – With the new explore tabs, users can sort projects by topics. In addition, topics can also be searched according to names and then sorted according to popularities or similarities.
6. Management of Project Topics in Admin Area
Availability – in Self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Administrator are able to manage project topics in the admin area through adding and editing, searching topics according to any string, adding avatars and descriptions to topics.
7. Group-level settings for merge request approvals
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users are now able to define and enforce values for Group-level merge request approvals by only specifying settings in a single location.
8. Conditional includes with exist keyword
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – The use of exist keyword allows users to decide to include or exclude external CI/CD configuration based on when particular files exist in the repository.
9. add README section to profile
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Ability to add README section to the GitLab profile allows user to inform others about their interest, how they work and much more.
10. Fine-tune vulnerability check rules
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – This features allows users to define scanners, severity levels, and vulnerability types that are being considered when triggering a rule.
11. Additional Secret Detection pattern support
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – The upgraded GitLab Secret Detection scanner are now able to detect 47 new ‘well-identifiable’ secret patterns for widely used applications.
Other Improvements:
Allow updates to attributes for SAML /SCIM users
Audit events for group SAML configuration setting changes
Automatically unblock LDAP users when signing in with other providers (SAML, OAuth, OmniAuth)
Contribution calendar aligned to configured time zone
Include Minimal Access role in SAML Group Sync
Topics selection in project settings
Manage project topics with the API
GitLab Workflow authentication with environment variables
Merge commit message template
Sticky toolbar when editing wiki pages
Git fetch resource optimizations
VSA deep link for URL query parameter
Merge commit message template
GitLab Workflow authentication with environment variables
Sticky toolbar during wiki pages editing
Table wiki with full support of block-level elements
View file tree when reviewing in Visual Studio Code
Add pipeline mini graph to the pipeline editor
Improved UI for runners in the Admin Area
GitLab Runner 14.5
Extract package metadata for npm packages
Update GitLab access token prefix and detection
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Order deployment by deployed time
CI/CD Tunnel support for Omnibus installations
Return alert ID in POST responses for alerts
Restrict incident creation permissions to at least the Reporter role
Omnibus improvements
GitLab chart improvements
Bug Fixes

GitLab Release 14.4 (2021-Oct-22)
With more than 30 improvements, we are pleased to announce the release of GitLab 14.4.
The improvements include scheduled DAST scans, DevOps Adoption trend graph, integrated error tracking inside GitLab without a sentry instance, remote repositories for GitLab in Visual Studio Code, GA for GitLab Operator and many more.
Key Features:
1. Scheduled DAST scans
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Users are now able to schedule scans at specific time as well as associate it with the default branch thus view the results on the secure Dashboard and vulnerability list
2. Remote Repositories for GitLab in Visual Studio Code
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – With GitLab Workflow version 3.33.o users can open a remote repository.
This feature allows users to browse a read-only version of a project in your familiar against the code environment.
3.The GitLab Operator is Generally Available
Availability – in self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab Operator has the ability to run production instances of GitLab on Kubernetes platforms which also include Red Hat OpenShift. GitLab operator automates day 2 operations like upgrading components, application reconfiguration, and autoscaling.
4.DevOps Adoption trend graph
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – The new DevOps adoption trend graph shows how quickly the group adopt themselves to the additional DevOps process.
5. Integrated error tracking inside GitLab without a Sentry instance
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.4 gives access to a Sentry-compatible backend built into users’ GitLab instance thus users can instrument their apps so that error will show up directly in GitLab without requiring separate Sentry instance.
Other Improvements
SAML nickname and username assertions on GitLab.com
Groups and subgroup sorting for DevOps Adoption
Sorting for project-level Value Stream Analytics
Filter scoped labels with a wildcard
Custom commit message for batch suggestions
Requirements navigation now under Issues
Slack notifications for new vulnerabilities
Edit the current file with a single keystroke
Improve security of CI_JOB_TOKEN with bots and more
GitLab Runner 14.4
Limit the runners registered to a group or project
Cleanup policies for the Dependency Proxy
Directly create vulnerability records through API
Semgrep SAST Analyzer for Go language
Disable auto-resolving of Secret Detection findings introduced in Merge Requests
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Resource group process mode
Omnibus improvements
GitLab chart improvements
More paid features available to free users
Bug fixes

GitLab 14.3 Release (2021-Sept-22)
With more than 40 improvements, we are delighted to announce the release of GitLab 14.3.
Upgraded and improved, experience better DevSecOps platform with features like Project-level security scan execution policies, next generation SAST to reduce Ruby false positives, group-level permissions for protected environments, group access for the GitLab Kubernetes Agent and many more.
Key Features:
1. Project-level DAST and secret detection scan execution policies
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can apply DAST and secret detection scans on regular schedule or as part of CI pipelines of projects.
2. Authorize Group Access to GitLab Kubernetes Agent
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Registering an agent for every project is not required for every project under the authorized group as GitLab 14.3 allows authorisation of Agent to access to the whole group.
3. New wiki editor for visual Markdown table editing
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can easily edit markdown (i.e:add or remove columns and rows) by using the new WYSIWYG Markdown editor in the wiki.
4. Group-level permissions for Protected Environments
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – The introduction of Group-level Protected Environments allows operator to lock down deployment to higher environments without the need to stop developers carrying out their task in maintaining their individual projects.
5. Next Generation SAST engine
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Built in-house and maintained by Gitlab’s Static Analysis and Vulnerability Research group, The SAST engine aims to reduce Ruby false positives as well as serving the users with framework to begin integrating various types of security testing offered by GitLab Ultimate
6. Include GitLab CI/CD configuration based on conditions
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Provides ability to use include with rules conditions. With this release, use may decide whether to include external CI/CD configuration or not. In other words, users can write standardize pipeline that is able to modify itself according to the their chosen conditions.
7. Usable variables inside other variables feature
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.3 is variables inside other other variables feature enable. Therefore, user can define define a variable and apply it in another variable definition within the same pipeline. In addition, users are able to use GitLab predefined variables inside of another variable declaration.
Other Improvement:
Audit events for changes to protected branch settings
Audit events for merge request approval setting changes
Filtering for project-level Value Stream Analytics
GPG key displayed on a user’s profile page
OAuth access tokens issued with expiration by default
Show DORA API-based Deployment Frequency metric for Premium customers
Filter roadmap view by set dates
Preview multimedia in the new Wiki editor
Filter pipelines in Pipeline view according to source
GitLab Runner on IBM POWER9 (Linux OS)
GitLab Runner 14.3
New API available for the Dependency Proxy
Support merging CI/CD rules arrays with !reference
License Compliance now supports Java 15
Search PyPI.org for packages not found in GitLab
GitLab Pages support splat (wildcard) and placeholder redirects
Support for Kubernetes 1.20
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Geo replicates Pages deployments
GitLab chart improvements
Remove deploy freeze period via the UI
API endpoint to retrieve on-call user
GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) 1.2 now available
Omnibus improvements
Bug fixes

GitLab 14.2 Release (2021-Aug-22)
With more than 50 improvements, we are happy to announce the release of GitLab 14.2.
The improvement includes build Cloud for macOS beta, markdown preview, new DevOps adoption metrics and many more.
Key Features:
1. GitLab Build Cloud for macOS beta
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can build applications on the new Build Cloud beta for macOS and have the ability to execute CI/CD workflows.
2. Launch preconfigured Gitpod from the merge request page
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities -Users are able to launch preconfigured Gitpod directly from the merge request page. This features let the users to use the target branch, speed up reviews and lessen the need for context switching.
3. Track use of dependency scanning and fuzz testing
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Track with enabled dependency scanning and fuzz testing allow users to compare adoption across groups from DevOps Adoption table in the UI.
4. Preview Markdown live while editing
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.2 markdown files have a new live preview option in both Web IDE and single file editor.
5. Use CI/CD variables in include statements in .gitlab-ci.yml
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users have more flexibility to define pipelines by having the ability to copy the same .gitlab-ci.yml file to multiple projects and use variables to alter its behavior.
As a results, duplication in the .gitlab-ci.yml file and the need for complicated per-project configuration can be reduced.
6. More advance vulnerability tracking for GoSec, Semgrep, and Brakeman analyzers
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Improved vulnerability tracking algorithm increase the accuracy of identifying the same vulnerability that has changes locations because of code refactoring.
7.Stageless pipelines
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Allows users to create a complete CI/CD pipeline without using stages by including needs in every job to implicitly configure the execution order. As a result, users are able to define a less verbose pipeline which uses less time to create and can run even faster.
8. New GitLab Kubernetes Agent UI
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab ships with a user-friendly user interface and a registration form make user to easily get started with the Kubernetes Agent.
9. Create a GitLab branch from a Jira issue
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users of the GitLab.com for Jira Cloud application are allow to create GitLab branches directly from a Jira issue’s development panel.
10. Export membership CSV report from top-level group
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Ability to export report that lists all members in a given group thus having visibility to the individuals in the group and the type of access is possible for your groups and projects.
11. Group Migration achieves parity with group import/export
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can initiate a group migration with a single click. Migration also includes all the subgroups and their data, which previously required separate export and import processes for each subgroup.
12. Hide all issues created by banned users
Availability – in self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Spam issues by banned users can be hidden
13. View historical CI pipeline minute usage
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.2 provides two charts that show historical CI pipeline minutes usage by month or by project to help users make informed decision about the pipeline usage.
Other Improvements:
Add compliance framework labels to group-level project list
Add pronunciation to GitLab profile page
Assign compliance framework to project using GraphQL
Display local time on user’s profile
Group access tokens as Git credentials
Hide application secrets
Ability to view the number of items in each stage in project-level Value Stream Analytics
View all Value Stream Analytics metrics for projects
Edit issue title from an issue board
Immediately delete projects scheduled for delayed deletion
Format wiki pages with ease
Show selected label when filtering Jira issues
Upload and attach files in the new wiki editor
View projects that use custom integration settings
GitLab Runner 14.2 release
Show linked pipelines in the mini pipeline graph
Share your container registry without sharing source code
Show pipeline IID in the pipelines page
Improved usability of Security and Compliance Configuration page
Use deploy tokens with the Dependency Proxy
SAST.NET analyser updated to support Visual Studio 2019 projects
SAST Go analyser updated to support Go 1.16
Static Analysis analyzer updates
Semgrep SAST Analyzer for C
Automatic creation of configuration file for CI/CD Tunnel
Expose deployment_tier in the Pipeline events webhook
Add quick action for updating incident severity
View Terraform state parameters in the UI
Email specific users in an escalation policy
Geo verifies replicated versioned snippets
GitLab chart improvements
Omnibus improvements
Timeout state search tips for Global Search Result page
Bug fixes

GitLab 14.1 Release (2021-July-22)
GitLab 14.1 offers GitLab’s users a better GitLab’s planning capabilities.
Key Features:
1. Build, publish and share Helm charts
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can use the GitLab project to publish and share their packaged Helm charts.
Users are able to download chart by using API/user interface.
2. Escalation Policies
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Manage on-call schedule and avoid missing out notification by creating escalation policy.
3. CI/CD Tunnel for Kubernetes clusters
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – CI/CD tunnel with GitLab connects GitLab runners with Kubernetes clusters through GitLab Kubernetes Agent which allows versatile GitOps workflows.
4. Datadog Continuous Integration (CI) Visibility integration
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab integration with Datadog CI Visibility integration gives detail breakdown of the GitLab pipelines, unit and integration tests.
5. Code coverage merge request approval rule
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – New Coverage check approval rule allow to keep code test coverage high.
6. Create tables and upload images in the Wiki Content Editor
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – GitLab 14.1 let users to upload image, insert and edit tables directly into the editor as well as from popular spreadsheet applications.
7. Select project access token role
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Premium and Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Premium and Ultimate
Capabilities – Users have the ability to set the access level of a project token
8. External status checks for merge requests
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Users can contact external API for status check in a merge request
9. Quick access to compliance report entries
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate.
Capabilities – Review merge request becomes easier through quick access view to the Compliance Dashboard.
10. Require a Jira issue to be linked to an MR
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Associating with Jira issue let the team to stay in sync as the code changes in GitLab are reflected in Jira issues.
11. DAST UI configuration experience
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities
Allows users to create DAST site and scanner profile with the New DAST configuration UI
Helps users to create merge request to enable DAST scanning
12. Inline code quality notices on MR diffs
Availability – in SaaS GitLab Ultimate and self-managed GitLab Ultimate
Capabilities – Merge request changes tab lets users identify the most critical issues to resolve in quick manner by showing the line that introduces quality violation and the severity.
Improvements
Audit events for API-created GPG and SSH keys
Audit events for new instance administrators
Audit events for project compliance frameworks changes
Email notification when users are deactivated
Group Migration now includes Epics
LDAP synchronization warning before external users lose access
Log the number of objects imported from GitHub
Track progress on overall DevOps adoption
Pronouns viewable in user profile snapshot
Check out branches of merge requests in Visual Studio Code
Track use of security scanning across multiple teams
Create and apply patches in VS Code
Comments indicator for merge request reviews in VS Code
Default branch name redirect
Display CSV files in readable table view
GitHub-formatted anchor links highlight correctly
New content types in the Wiki Content Editor
Access the CI/CD template library from the pipeline editor
User setting to display absolute times
GitLab Runner 14.1
Enable GraphQL Runner API by default
Runner registration tokens in the Admin Area are masked
Limit runner registration for groups and projects
Visibility into CI minute tracking and quotas for public projects
Updates to Admin Area’s Runners page
Package Registry supports NuGet symbol packages
Work from branches in the Pipeline Editor
Dependency Scanning for Java Gradle projects
Beta release of DAST API Security scanner
Static Analysis analyser updates
Configuration tool for Secret Detection available to all
Dependency Scanning enabled within the UI
Disable jailing mechanism for GitLab Pages by default
Omnibus improvements
Related feature flags in issues
Support for UBI-Based Container Scanning Image
Registration Features
Bug fixes