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Latest release

October 15, 2026

Connect agents, secure secrets, and route reviews, all under your controls

With GitLab 19.5, you connect any MCP-compatible agent to GitLab from the client your team already uses. You keep secrets under your existing permissions and get every merge request to the right reviewer, faster. Plus, 19.5 ships with 100+ other improvements and innovations.

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Blog

Connect your agents to your software lifecycle with GitLab MCP server (GA)

Call GitLab from the coding harnesses teams already use, under the same identity and policy. External agents reach GitLab tools, context, and flows directly: they can read and change code, merge requests, work items, and pipelines, pull in only the details a task needs, and hand work to GitLab Duo Agent Platform flows.

Blog

Govern secrets like your code with GitLab Secrets Manager (GA)

Secure build-time secrets with unified permissions and full audit trails. Each secret is scoped to the job that needs it, and limited by branch, environment, and protection status. Built on OpenBao, it stores pipeline and runtime secrets inside GitLab and governs access with your existing permissions. When someone is offboarded from a project, they lose access to its secrets automatically.

Blog

Get every merge request in front of the right reviewer, faster (GA)

With the new Recommend Reviewer flow, route every merge request to the right reviewer, so reviews start sooner and review load spreads across every qualified engineer. When you create a merge request, GitLab recommends the best individual reviewer based on workload, time zone, availability, and expertise defined by approval rules and CODEOWNERS. The flow explains why it chose the suggested reviewers and lets you assign them in one click.

This month's Notable Contributor: @DhairyaMajmudar

Dhairya is a Level 3 contributor who contributed to offline transfer and Organizations support for import, so that groups, projects, and their memberships can move between GitLab instances.

Secure

Catch the business logic flaws scanners often miss

Business Logic Security Analyzer detects logic flaws that pattern-based scanners often miss, including broken object-level authorization, missing authorization checks, and mass assignment. Run a full-repository scan from GitLab Duo Chat or the API, or attach the Business Logic scan profile to check each merge request. Findings appear in the vulnerability report and the merge request security widget, alongside results from your other analyzers. Business Logic Security Analyzer is in early access for GitLab Ultimate customers on GitLab.com. To request access, contact your account team.

Manage

Track your own GitLab Credits usage and set caps in bulk

Users can now see their own GitLab Credits usage, including total usage, daily average, and peak day, in User settings > GitLab Credits. Previously, only group Owners and administrators could see this. For Owners managing per-user credit caps, you can now set cap overrides for many users at once by pasting a list of usernames and cap values. New entries merge with your existing overrides, and if any row has an error, no changes are saved.

Code

GitLab Duo CLI /goal command GA and auto mode

GitLab Duo CLI command /goal is now generally available. Tell it your goal by running a /goal <task>, and step back. The agent delegates it to a governed, goal-driven flow that handles both implementation and verification. Let longer tasks run without stopping for every approval. You can also try it with the new auto mode, where the agent uses tools without asking for approval. Auto mode is off by default and it will not override agent tool governance.

Secure

Monitor external coding agent activity with AI Governance Dashboard (Beta)

Keep every agent session in one view, including coding agents that run outside GitLab. Connect Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to GitLab AI Governance, so security and compliance teams see agent activity in one view: who ran each session, which agent, which project, and when. Sessions and tool calls appear in the AI Governance Dashboard and the AI audit events report, and stream to your SIEM through audit event streaming.

Build

Trigger flows with the Flows API (GA)

Automate handoffs to GitLab Duo Agent Platform flows, to get work started without needing to manually trigger them. Flows can be triggered from CI/CD pipelines, scripts, and other automation with the Flows API trigger endpoint. The endpoint now follows the GitLab REST API breaking changes policy, so you can rely on it in production.

Secure

Customize security configuration profiles

Set scan options like excluded paths, custom analyzer images, and full Git history scans once for a group, and apply them to all its projects. You can now customize Secret Detection and SAST profiles in the UI instead of editing .gitlab-ci.yml in each project. Dependency Scanning profiles are customizable through the GraphQL API, with UI customization planned in a future release.

Provide images as context for Developer Flow and Agentic Chat

Add a screenshot or design diagram to a bug report issue, and GitLab Duo can use it to start the fix, so you don't spend time describing the problem in words. Developer Flow and Agentic Chat can read images in your repository and attachments on issues, merge requests, and comments, and use them as context for the fix. In your prompt, name the image by its file path or upload reference as it appears in the Markdown.

Secure

Share filtered views of the security inventory

Send the team that owns a set of projects the exact view they need. Filter the security inventory by tool coverage, vulnerability count, or project name, then copy the URL. Whoever opens the link sees the same view, and you can bookmark it for later.

Manage

Run GitLab Duo agentic work from any MCP client

Hand work to GitLab Duo agents and flows from your MCP client and follow it to the result. Find what a project offers with list_duo_agents_and_flows, then start a session with start_duo_session. Track it with get_duo_session and list_duo_sessions, and when a session pauses for you, use send_duo_session_input to approve, reject, or answer the agent. GitLab MCP server is now GA.

Secure

Build

Secure build-time secrets where your code and pipelines live

Cut off a leaked credential in one click. Scope each secret to the job that needs it, limited by branch, environment, and protection status, with one audit trail for every secret and every access. Secrets work outside CI too, in Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or through the API. GitLab Secrets Manager is GA.

Code

Follow-up reviews in Code Review Flow

Ask GitLab Duo to review again, and it skips findings you've already addressed. Code Review Flow now uses comment threads from its earlier reviews, including your replies, to focus on lines added since its last review, and lists outstanding findings in its summary. If you reply to explain why the code is correct, GitLab Duo doesn't raise the point again. Turn on "Start a new review on push" to run a follow-up review automatically when you push changes.

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