Gitlab.com Release

GitLab.com is currently running the 13.2 Preview release. New features are launched on GitLab.com every week, with a packaged release available on the 22nd of every month. Read on to learn more about the new features available on GitLab.com. Note that it may take a few days for a feature to become fully available on GitLab.com, due to deployment schedule and potential feature flags.

Additional information on past releases is available; be sure to check out the release for other features we've launched recently. We also have information about upcoming releases if you're interested in seeing what we are doing next.

Key features released in GitLab 13.2 Preview

Container Host Monitoring and Blocking

We’re pleased to announce the first release of Container Host Security. This initial feature, container host monitoring and blocking, allows security administrators to secure their running containers at the host level by monitoring and optionally blocking unexpected activity. Such activity includes process starts, file changes, or opened network ports. This feature uses Falco to provide the monitoring functionality and AppArmor for the blocking functionality.

Documentation Issue

Include CI test results in Release Evidence

GitLab is expanding our 12.6 Release Evidence feature by adding CI test results. These job artifacts, generated by the pipeline, are automatically included in the release evidence JSON file. As an Ultimate user, you will be able to effortlessly provide an auditor or compliance process with the relevant changes to production. You can download the evidence JSON and show corresponding test results organically as a part of using GitLab without disrupting your normal workflow.

Documentation Issue

Other improvements in GitLab 13.2 Preview

Gitaly Cluster TLS support

Gitaly Cluster now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS), which means all communication between Gitaly and its clients, GitLab and Praefect, are encrypted when TLS is enabled for both Gitaly and Praefect components. This is helpful when deploying GitLab to a network with other internal services that are not trusted.

Previously, communication between GitLab and Gitaly supported TLS encryption, but encryption was not supported when using Praefect, which is a component of Gitaly Cluster.

Documentation Issue

Geo supports pausing database replication on a Geo secondary

Geo replicates data from a primary Geo node to one or several Geo secondary nodes. While Geo supports pausing replication for repositories and files via the administrator interface, it was not possible to pause database replication. In 13.2, Geo supports pausing and resuming replication of all replicated data, including the PostgreSQL database using the new gitlab-ctl geo:pause and gitlab-ctl geo:resume commands on a secondary Geo node.

This allows systems administrators to pause all replication on a secondary Geo node while performing critical maintenance operations on the primary Geo node. In the case of a failure on the primary, no changes are replicated to the paused secondary node, which can then be used to failover to.

Documentation Issue Epic

Set metrics dashboard variables with PromQL

You can now set variables in your metrics dashboard using PromQL. Your PromQL queries can return a list of values to use as dynamic variables in a metrics dashboard.

Set metrics dashboard variables with PromQL

Documentation Issue

Geo supports replicating GitLab Package Registries

Geo now supports replicating Package Registries to secondary nodes, allowing distributed teams to access them from the closest Geo node, which reduces latency and improves the overall user experience. Additionally, the Package Registry assets can also be restored from a secondary node when failing over to that node.

We currently don’t support verification of these assets but future support is planned.

Documentation Epic

Changelog

Please check out the changelog to see all the named changes:

Installing

If you are setting up a new GitLab installation please see the download GitLab page.

Updating

Check out our update page.

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