GitLab 4.0 release details and schedule

Some details of upcoming GitLab 4.0 and release date

Release schedule:

• Dec 21..22 - we test 4.0 release candidate
• Dec 22..23 - we will merge master into stable
• Dec 23 - Installation docs is ready. 4.0 is ready for fresh install
• Dec 24 - Updating docs. You will be able to migrate your GitLab instances to 4.0

Important changes:

• New projects will be namespaced (ex. gitlab/vagrant )
• Every group got own directory in gitolite
• All projects of group will be moved under group directory ( git remote should be updated )
• Projects w/o groups will stay with same remote
• User got username ( For existing users it will be generated based on email )
• User create project under his username ( ex. randx/my-project )
• User can change username. All projects under his username will be moved
• Group got owner
• Owner can create projects within group
• Owner can access every project within a group
• Admin can transfer any project from one namespace(group, user, global) to another
• Group or user is a namespace for project. Owner of namespace is an owner of project

Migration notes:

• Required: replace gitolite hooks
• Required: activate namespaces
• Required: update permissions on /home/git/repositories/
• Strongly recommended: replace gitlab.yml with new one