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GitLab releases a new version every single month on the 22nd.

The list is an outline of tentpole features – the most important features of upcoming releases – and doesn't include most contributions from volunteers outside the company. This is not an authoritative list of upcoming releases - it only reflects current milestones.

Note that we often move things around, do things that are not listed, and cancel things that are listed. Some of the things listed here might not ever be in GitLab. New Starter, Premium, and Ultimate features are indicated with labels. This is our best estimate of where new features will land, but is in no way definitive. You can also view upcoming features by product tier.

Past releases can be found on our releases page.

13.2 (2020-07-22)

Manage

• [FE] Multiple value streams: Switch between value streams MVC
• [FE] Multiple value streams: Create new value stream MVC
• Add Private API endpoint to check if a given OTP is a valid 2FA
• Enable project access tokens by default
• Add the MR author to MR's list on the compliance dashboard Ultimate
• Highlight revoked PAT credentials in the credential inventory Ultimate
• Add MR approval settings column to the compliance dashboard Ultimate
• Update Compliance Dashboard to use a table layout Ultimate
• Group Activity - MRs Chart w/ Single Series
• Prevent forking outside a group
• Add compliance framework project labels to Projects API
• Import comments from Jira issue
• Highlight expired SSH or PAT credentials in the credential inventory Ultimate
• Allow admins and owners to make PAT expiration enforcement optional Premium
• Insights / report page embeddable in the GitLab Handbook
• Include changes to approval groups in audit log Starter
• Add Private API endpoint to check user 2FA setup
• Add "Filter results" control on Group Value Stream Analytics Premium
• Partition the audit_events table by year
• Allow group Owners to manually add members when LDAP lock is enabled
• Restrict personal access tokens to specific projects

Plan

• Add backend support for open/closed/all states
• Allow users to create new issues within their board when swimlanes are enabled Premium Ultimate
• Show Iteration Reports in Sub-Groups & Projects Starter
• [Feature flag] Enable :group_iterations
• Display lists on swimlanes board Premium Ultimate
• Roadmaps: Filter by milestone Premium Ultimate
• Bulk editing health status Ultimate
• Include health status context within the issue list
• Iteration Report Starter
• Allow users to visualize grouped work on their boards Premium Ultimate
• Allow user to apply or turn swimlanes on within their board Premium Ultimate
• Add configuration options to the edit board modal Premium Ultimate
• Move hide labels option into edit board Premium Ultimate
• Allow users to collapse swimlanes Premium Ultimate
• Display blocking issue count on issues in list Starter
• Include the Jira users -> GitLab users mapping for authors and assignees
• Process user mapping form and store the mapping
• Health status in issues and epic tree feedback
• Increase Requirement title character length to support longer entries Ultimate
• Create Jira issues parser basic classes
• Import Code Blocks & Attachments via Parser
• Bulk edit issues to assign/unassign an Epic
• Support setting confidential attribute in GraphQL & in the UI
• Support setting confidential attribute in REST API
• Be smarter about auto-complete of @ mentions
• Update an existing Epic to be Confidential Ultimate
• Service Desk: Add issue participants via email address
• Sort issues (in List view) by the number of items they are blocking Starter
• New create Epic page
• Epic swimlanes in board MVC Proposal Premium Ultimate
• Add burnup chart to milestones Starter Highlight
• Assign an issue to more than one timebox (Milestone & Iteration) Starter
• View real-time updates of assignee in issue / merge request sidebar Highlight

Create

• Define label colors for Jira issues in GitLab
• Enable pagination at the controller level
• Add enable_jira_issues boolean to JiraService
• Follow-up from "Add Jira issue finder service"
• Create API endpoint for querying Jira issues
• Add Jira issue list to proper licensing tier
• Jira Issues Finder to make the REST API call and return a list of Jira issues
• Search for issues from Jira
• Jira issue list presenter
• Jira issue list page
• Create a Jira Issues Controller
• Add Jira links on the left sidebar
• Add project key to Jira integration
• Add concurrency support for Git repository backups
• Add the Static Site Editor to the Product page of the GitLab Handbook
• Configure the GitLab Handbook to use the Static Site Editor
• Wiki <> Confluence MVC 1a - Link external Confluence Workspace from a Project
• MVC: Expand Jira integration to allow viewing issues
• Upload an image using the Static Site Editor
• Realtime feedback for editing .gitlab-ci.yml
• Service templates page: Disable service template when instance-level integration is configured
• Admin instance-level page: List project overrides table
• Project-level integration: Implement project-level setting selector
• Add ServiceNow Integration Docs
• Display non-markdown content in the WYSIWYG mode of the Static Site Editor
• Validate .gitlab-ci.yml in the Web IDE
• Multi-line merge request comments: 1. MVC Dropdown basic UI on MR comments
• Add Feature to Migrate Existing Service Template Instance Integration
• Add Service Templates Deprecation Warning Banner
• Make merge-ref diffs the default comparison mode
• Design Activity should be supported on Project, Group and User Activity Pages
• Make the Design Collection more visible in the Issue UI
• Support for multiple CODEOWNERS sections Premium
• Show list of reviewers on the merge request widget
• Display change that made discussion outdated in-line
• Making Jira Transition IDs easier to configure
• Add ability to diff changes for wiki pages
• Overview for projects with enabled specific service
• Multi-line merge request comments: 2. Highlight lines spanned by each comment

Verify

• CI linter: Support multiple error messages and deprecation warnings
• UI to browse locked artifacts
• CI linter: Extend errors messaging to include warnings (MVC)
• Runner Guided Install:Change redirect for link “Install GitLab Runner” to a pop up.
• Move features to core: Code Quality MR Widget
• Correlate child pipeline to triggering job (UX improvement)
• View and Manage an Organization's Runners at the Group Level
• Add TODO task when MR is removed from Merge Train by the system
• Integrate k6 for Integrated Testing Premium
• Allow user to disable GitLab.com provided shared runners on group level (for GitLab.com)
• Keep latest artifacts for the last successful jobs Highlight
• Make it possible to define a cartesian product/matrix for build jobs
• CI Artifacts: exclude paths
• Use default checkInterval for Runner in Helm chart
• Publish a GitLab Runner Docker image for Linux on IBM Z
• Add labels to Docker networks

Package

• Move the Package Registry from EE to Core
• Add an expandable tag detail view to the Image Repository Detail View UI
• Discover, share and install PHP dependencies with the GitLab Composer Repository

Release

• Docs: Set a deploy freeze in the UI Highlight
• Rename user strategies for Feature Flags
• Enable the ci_release_generation feature flag by default
• Extend ECS template to support AWS Fargate
• Introduce an explicit concept of secrets: in GitLab CI
• Allow parent project's developers to create pipelines for merge requests for fork MRs Starter
• Cancel roll out manually based on alert from UI Ultimate
• Show alerts in environment index page Ultimate
• Update "Create Release" flow to re-use the "Edit Release" form
• Send an email notification when "merge when pipeline succeeds" is set on a merge request
• Make Release data available through GraphQL API
• Annotate non-deployment jobs with prepare keyword on environment:action: keyword
• Expose :release yaml as steps via API
• Include test results within Release Evidence Ultimate
• Allow Deploy keys to push to protected branches once more
• Shared user lists for Feature Flag strategies Premium
• Add ability to associate feature flag with contextual issue Starter
• Set a deploy freeze in the UI Highlight

Configure

• Update Auto Test docs about supported buildpacks
• Add the optional ability to install the GitLab Kubernetes Agent in GDK
• Improve the Terraform MR error messages
• GitLab Kubernetes Agent POC
• Add support for terraform_remote_state data sources
• GitLab Terraform flow
• Instance level SSL and custom domain support Highlight
• Upgrade Auto DevOps to Helm 3
• Product discovery for running Auto DevOps on air gapped networks Highlight

Monitor

• [Feature flag] Enable Alert Setting dropdown
• Add system note for status changes on alerts
• Surface link to runbook in alert
• Surface metrics charts on the alert detail page for alerts from Externally-managed Prometheus
• Filter alert status counts by search
• Dedicated Incidents
• Add integrations dropdown to the alerts endpoint page
• Surface metrics charts on the alert detail page for alerts from GitLab-managed Prometheus
• System note on alert indicating resolution by issue closure
• Automatically mark To-do as done when an alert is resolved
• Trigger test alert from GitLab
• Surface linked incident issues in alert list
• GitLab defined identification for generic alerts Premium
• System notes on alert detail page
• Allow users to see which alerts are new in the alert list view
• Search plain text in alert list
• Create GitLab issues from PagerDuty Incidents

Secure

• DAST Site profile - Form MVC - Add delete capability
• DAST Site profiles - Form MVC - Add routes
• DAST Site profiles - Form MVC - Create the basic form - Backend
• DAST Site profiles - Form MVC - Create the basic form - Frontend
• [Draft] On-demand scans – Create scans list page [parent]
• DAST Profile library MVC - design
• DAST Site profile MVC Implementation
• SAST Config UI - Pipeline Details
• MR Creation Flow for SAST UI Config Changes
• New SAST Config UI Page - Basic SAST Wide Settings
• Frontend: Modify Secure Configuration page to provide entry point to SAST Config UI Page
• DAST On-demand scans MVC - Initiate Scan [parent issue]
• .NET offline License Compliance
• Implementation of fuzzing CLI to run fuzzing job Ultimate
• DAST vulnerabilities show more information about the request - standalone page
• Coverage-guided fuzzing Documentation Ultimate
• Coverage-guided fuzzing results download Ultimate
• DAST Scan profile configuration design
• DAST Site profile configuration design
• UX Discovery: SAST Configuration UI
• Engineering Research: Have a plan for Splitting analyze and build phases in Security Products analyzers
• Vulnerability List enhancements step 1: Add additional details and update filters Ultimate
• Show security reports summary in pipelines' Security Dashboard [parent issue] Ultimate
• Bring SAST to Core - EOL TSLint and merge into ESLint
• Bring SAST to Core - ESLint security plugin
• Display 'License-Check' approval rule in the license compliance section Ultimate
• Link existing Issues to a Vulnerability Ultimate
• Engineering Research: Which language framework / package manager should be next for Suggested Solution (was Auto Remediation) support for Dependency Scanning

Defend

• Allow user to add and use Pod Security policy
• OOTB policy: inbound and outbound traffic
• Prevention/Blocking for Container Host Security
• Show Container Network Policies on the Cluster Applications Page Ultimate

Enablement

• Add Maintenance mode application settings fields
• Geo: Validate Blob Replicator Strategy doc section
• Create a command line tool that pauses/resumes all replication on the secondary
• Investigate how unreplicated data is transferred in a planned failover
• Reuse the existing PostgreSQL resources for Patroni bootstrap
• Encrypted ldap POC: Rails encrypted credentials
• Convert a standalone PostgreSQL to a Patroni Cluster
• Add packages for Ubuntu 20.04
• Build packages for SLES 12.5
• Document HA clustering with Patroni
• Implement patroni sub-command for gitlab-ctl
• Test switching from repmgr to Patroni and vice-versa
• Verify Geo installation with Patroni and PostgreSQL 11
• Add PostgreSQL 12 as opt-in for fresh installs with no HA or Geo
• Better handling the situation when failed master comes online after failing over to new master
• Update minimum supported kubernetes version to 1.13
• Support Workhorse S3 client credentials configuration
• Support deploying Praefect in Helm charts

13.3 (2020-08-22)

Manage

• MVC: Chain of custody report, list of commits Ultimate
• Support pagination/search for GitHub imports

Plan

• Persist collapsed swimlanes Premium Ultimate
• View Iteration Report charts & completion progress via time Starter
• View Iteration Report charts & completion progress via Weight Starter
• View burnup chart in the Iteration report Starter
• View a burndown chart in the Iteration report Starter
• Allow users to collapse lists when swimlanes are applied
• Allow users to reorder and/or sort swimlanes
• Allow user to reassign epics of issues on the board using epic swimlanes
• Allow users to reorder lists when swimlanes are applied
• Assign epic to a group when creating within another epic Premium
• FY21-Q2 IACV - UX :: Make it easier to remove labels from issues
• Improve label management across groups, subgroups, and projects

Create

• Make the Static Site Editor available to all pages in the GitLab Handbook
• Multi-line merge request comments: 3. Add pointer solution for ease-of-use
• Embed a YouTube video using the Static Site Editor
• Allow the ability to re-order designs

Verify

• Get coverage data for all projects in a group to download Premium
• Only parse JUnit report for individual test suite when clicking into test suite on the pipeline page
• Introduce generic metric measurement (credits) for CI runners usage
• Run after_script even when the job is cancelled for gracefully interruptible jobs

Package

• Handling various token formats in the package API
• Use your Job token to authenticate to and update packages in your GitLab NuGet Repository

Release

• Allow reporters to run jobs that deploy to an environments if they are explicitly listed Premium
• Tech eval: Identify all the hard limits of the Environments dashboard that would need to be modified to allow for pagination
• new ECS task definition based on a local JSON
• Auto Deploy to EC2
• Add Support for Canary-Weight ingress annotation via API
• Display strategy information on feature flags list view
• Group Deploy Keys
• GitLab reads from Vault for CI Variables Premium
• Fire webhook on new deployment

Configure

• Add environment variable support to the Terraform HTTP backend

Monitor

• Move alert system notes into separate tab on alert details page
• Combine the Overview and Alert Detail sections
• URL scheme for alert integrations
• Link to Alerts List from Alert on metrics dashboard
• Determine smarter time range for metrics shown on alert detail page
• Incident Triage List
• Manual Incident Creation
• Surface link to logs in alerts from GitLab-managed Prometheus
• Custom Integrations
• Backend: Allow custom metrics endpoint to accept axios requests
• Automatically assign alert to user when they acknowledge it
• Enable deletion of customer alert data
• Dismiss an alert
• Link to alert details from incident issue
• Error states for the alert list
• Email Integration
• Annotate status changes on alerts
• Surface link to an alert runbook on metric chart
• Allow users to add a runbook to an alert
• Create PagerDuty Incidents from GitLab issues

Secure

• DAST Site profile - Form MVC - Add edit capability - Backend
• DAST Site profile - Form MVC - Add edit capability - Frontend
• DAST Site Profile Library implementation - Iteration 1
• Use existing scanner profiles for on-demand scans implementation
• Implement DAST scanned resources modal in the pipeline view Ultimate
• DAST Scanner profile implementation - add name/timeouts
• Use existing site profiles for on-demand scans implementation
• DAST On-Demand Scan - View Scans [parent issue]
• Fuzz the app given an OpenAPI definition Ultimate
• Disable the DAST spider and provide list of urls to scan

Defend

• Project-level Container Security Alerts
• Container Security Independence

Enablement

• Partitioning: incorporate activerecord-multi-tenant gem to enforce partitioning key in queries
• Verify upgrades to PostgreSQL 12.x
• Verify PG HA installation with PostgreSQL 12
• Test using PostgreSQL 12 with the GitLab chart

13.4 (2020-09-22)

Create

• Add group-level wiki Starter

Verify

• Show Failed tests only by default on JUnit report
• Graph the average code coverage of all of a group's projects Premium
• Display the current coverage data for each selected project Premium

Package

• Provide Raw Packaged Binary Repository
• Lazy load container registry tags
• Use CI/CD to push/pull packages with the GitLab PyPI Repository
• Enable Cleanup policy for tags for all existing projects on GitLab.com

Release

• Per-environment Instance ID for GitLab Feature Flag (or graceful token rotation)
• Add ability to associate issue with contextual feature flag -
• Set deployment Traffic Weight via UI
• Publish Releases without giving access to source code
• Aggregate project level metrics to the group
• Template for Deploying to AWS EC2
• Share production environments across projects Premium
• Support release association to group milestones (Edit release page) Premium
• Expand supported number environments on Environments Dashboard by supporting pagination Premium

Monitor

• Changing alert status adds event to activity feed
• Incident Timeline
• Related Incidents
• Add a link for edit custom metrics from charts - Final iteration

Secure

• DAST Profile Library implementation - Iteration 2
• Display uneditable scanner profile config on On-demand scan page
• Display uneditable site profile config on On-demand scan page
• Suggested Solution (was Auto-Remediation) - Automatically create MRs & user awareness

Enablement

• Maintenance mode blocks Git pushes over SSH
• Maintenance mode displays a banner message
• Maintenance mode blocks Docker Registry pushes
• Maintenance mode blocks non-GET HTTP requests
• Documentation for upgrading to PostgreSQL 12
• Upgrade procedure for PostgreSQL 12 on PG HA installations
• Add a notice that PG 12 is available
• Add support for PostgreSQL 12.X to gitlab-ctl pg-upgrade for single database nodes
• Document procedure to upgrade PostgreSQL chart image to 12.x
• Test upgrading to PostgreSQL 12 with the GitLab chart

13.5 (2020-10-22)

Verify

• Screenshots and trace on the screenshot tab on the pipeline page
• Pipeline tab with screenshot links for failed tests
• History of last 10 test failures in JUnit report
• Allow Visual Review Tool comment box to accept screenshots from clipboard Starter

Release

• Fire Webhook on Feature Flag change
• Allow Releases to be associated with labels
• Adding the merge request stats to block header section in Release Progress View
• Activate links to Issues & Merge Requests in Release Progress View
• Add binary assets to a Release via gitlab-ci.yml
• Add ability to create feature flag from merge request through markdown (API)

Monitor

• Consider treatment of @ mentions on alert annotations

Secure

• Enable Container Scanning to scan multiple images
• DAST support for selecting technologies used in app
• Document multi-image container scanning
• Show (report) the status of Container Scanning in the UI
• Problem Validation: What do users want and expect from managing License Compliance at the Group / Instance level Ultimate

13.6 (2020-11-22)

Verify

• Add full screen annotations to Visual Review tool Starter
• Display extra metadata (user agent, display port size, etc.) on screenshot tab
• Use variable inside other variable

Package

• Scope Conan packages at the project level

Release

• Connect post deployment monitoring to AutoDevOps Ultimate

Enablement

• Default to PostgreSQL 12 in Omnibus
• Print a PG 12 deprecation notice when upgrading with an external database
• Print a PG 11 deprecation notice for upgrades

13.7 (2020-12-22)

Verify

• Detect and display code coverage reports on MR
• Detect and report on flaky tests Premium
• Show code quality notices on diffs/MRs Premium

Release

• Allow overrides for Deploy Freezes

13.9 (2021-02-22)

Verify

• Add Ability to take screenshot in Visual Review Tools - Screen Selection Starter
• Add ability to take screenshot in Visual Review Tool - Entire Page Starter
• Add ability to take screenshot in Visual Review Tool - Visible View Port Starter

14.0 (2021-04-22)

Verify

• Image Annotations for Visual Review tool Starter

Release

• Remove support for disc configuration source

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