GitLab 8.9.2, 8.8.6, and 8.7.8 released

Today we are releasing versions 8.9.2, 8.8.6, and 8.7.8 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE).

These versions contain security fixes, and we recommend that all GitLab installations be upgraded to one of these versions.

Please read on for more details.

Information disclosure via Snippet search

It was possible for guests to find snippets set to "Internal" via search. See the issue for more details. This vulnerability affected both the default search backend and the Elasticsearch backend in GitLab EE, and both have been fixed.

Thanks to Teun Beijers for responsibly disclosing this issue to us.

Information disclosure via "Request Access to Group" feature

It was possible for a user to see a list of private projects in a group simply by requesting access to it. See the issue for more details. This feature was only introduced in GitLab 8.9, so versions 8.8 and 8.7 were not affected by this vulnerability.

Thanks to Colin Dean for responsibly disclosing this issue to us.

Security fix in ruby-saml dependency

We've upgraded our version of ruby-saml to address CVE-2016-5697. See the merge request for more details.

Upgrade barometer

These versions do not include any migrations, and should not require any downtime.

Please be aware that by default the Omnibus packages will stop, run migrations, and start again, no matter how “big” or “small” the upgrade is. This behavior can be changed by adding a /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-migrations file.

Updating

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