GitLab upcoming releases

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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.

Past releases can be found on our releases page.

12.1 (2019-07-22)

Manage

• Productivity Analytics MVC Premium
• Group Level Analytics Premium
• Allow ability for developer role to delete tags
• Productivity Analytics MVC Premium
• Group Level Analytics Premium
• Group Cycle Analytics Over Time Premium

Plan

• Manual backlog grooming and prioritization FY20 Vision
• Multi-select-move issues in boards - BE

Create

• Creating merge request from a confidential issue on a private fork
• Allow adding groups to CODEOWNERS file
• View previous design versions Premium FY20 Vision

Verify

• default: keyword for gitlab-ci.yml FY20 Vision
• Flexible rules for Pipeline Jobs FY20 Vision
• Enforce template inclusion in pipelines Premium
• Extensible Runner execution

Package

• Improve discovery and navigation for GitLab Package features
• Pull npm package from sub group/project
• Conan C/C++ Package Manager MVC Premium FY20 Vision

Release

• Parallel execution strategy for Merge Trains Premium FY20 Vision

Configure

• Instance-level cluster web terminal access
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall Knative
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall JupyterHub
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall Runner
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall Ingress Stage 1
• Update serverless.yml format
• Don't run Auto DevOps when no dockerfile or matching buildpack exists
• Remove support for creating non-RBAC kubernetes clusters
• Provide separate namespaces for each project environment

Monitor

• Load dashboards from project's git repository
• Support for additional panel types in dashboard schema definition

Secure

• SAST for APEX Ultimate
• Add, view and edit optional reason when dismissing vulnerabilities Ultimate
• API to retrieve Dependency List data Ultimate
• Security approval in merge requests MVC Ultimate
• Option to set Security Dashboard as default view for groups Ultimate

12.2 (2019-08-22)

Manage

• Deactivate a user (with self-service reactivation)
• Identifying Potential Code Hotspots Premium
• Customizable Stages in Cycle Analytics Premium
• Productivity Analytics - Type of Work (pre-defined) Premium
• Language Analytics at an Instance level Premium

Plan

• Board list capacity line Starter

Create

• Only maintainers can open merge requests from private forks to public projects
• Design Notes should also be available in the discussions tab Premium FY20 Vision
• Export designs when creating a project export Premium FY20 Vision
• Allow users to Destroy/Hide designs Premium FY20 Vision

Verify

• Global rules section for pipelines
• Support @ and : in variable masking
• Support runtime Visual Review configuration Starter FY20 Vision
• Prevent running multiple instances of the gitlab-runner process
• Allow the Runner to alias a service in the config.toml file
• Interactive web terminal support in helm chart
• Create network per build to link containers together

Package

• OAuth2 support with GitLab personal access token
• $CI_REGISTRY_USER to untag its own images
• Improve Dependency Proxy User Interface

Release

• Access controls for Pages on gitlab.com
• Ability to add and remove users to a Feature Flag to expose a feature to only those specified users Premium FY20 Vision
• Allow user to install Hashicorp Vault into Kubernetes Cluster FY20 Vision

Configure

• Support Knative installation for group level clusters
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall Cert Manager
• Kubernetes > Applications > Uninstall Helm Tiller Stage 1
• PaaS CRD to restrict deployment only to Knative services
• Enable Cloud Run on GKE cluster creation
• Document how to deploy serverless functions to aws lambda
• Bring ability to scope environment variables to environments to Core
• Create AWS EKS cluster from GitLab
• Remove Kubernetes service integration page

Monitor

• Allow panel size and location to be defined in dashboard schema
• Improve GitLab Self-Monitoring by creating a default Project for Instance Administration - MVC FY20 Vision
• Improve Cluster Monitoring with support for alerts on computed capacity metrics Ultimate

Secure

• Update Security Dashboard layout for improved usability
• Improve phpcs-security-audit vulnerability report descriptions Ultimate
• Domain validation for DAST
• Remove requirement for Docker-In-Docker for SAST scanners
• Add License information to the Dependency List based on current license rules Ultimate
• Add Dependency Scanning (security findings status) information to the Dependency List View Ultimate
• Perform discovery around secret detection on full history of the repository

12.3 (2019-09-22)

Plan

• Issue list row re-design
• Create issue from epic Ultimate

Create

• Add minimal merge-ref based diff option to merge request comparisons
• Generate smaller versions of design images when new versions are uploaded
• Merge coordinated merge requests with a single click Premium FY20 Vision
• Live preview (server side evaluation) application in Web IDE Ultimate FY20 Vision
• Add an admin screen to check status of Elasticsearch indexing Starter

Verify

• Prompt to install group runner on Kubernetes
• Make job logs line shareable
• Vault integration for key/value secrets MVC Premium FY20 Vision
• Add MR links to Pipeline view
• Child/parent pipelines FY20 Vision
• Global Pipelines List and filters for pipelines FY20 Vision
• CI View for JUnit-style XML
• Public pipeline page MVC Premium FY20 Vision
• Run pipeline button for "Pipelines for merge requests"
• Support Windows 1903 (May 2019 Release)
• Revisit the default values for concurrency, check interval and request concurrency within our Helm Chart

Package

• Support Helm charts in the GitLab container registry Premium
• registry: deleting image tag deletes all tags with same image id
• Authenticate with CI_JOB_TOKEN to NPM registry FY20 Vision

Release

• Allow milestone(s) to be associated with a release FY20 Vision
• Add ability to associate feature flag with contextual issue/epic/MR
• Evidence collection for Releases MVC FY20 Vision
• Notifications for Releases
• Multiple version Pages support
• Contribute GitLab auth method to Vault FY20 Vision
• Add feature flag permissions Premium FY20 Vision
• Post-deployment monitoring (continuous verification) MVC Premium FY20 Vision
• Release Orchestration Dashboard MVC Ultimate FY20 Vision
• Support HSTS on GitLab Pages

Monitor

• Move and resize panels in dashboard, save to branch
• De-duplication of Prometheus alerts for Incidents
• Allow (or display) access to the GitLab deployed Prometheus server
• Parameterization in Issue Templates for Incidents
• Internal Ops Dashboard Ultimate

Secure

• Perform secret detection on full history of the repository
• Forbid remote push if commit contains secrets
• Instance level Security Dashboard MVC Ultimate
• Trigger pipeline on target branch if security report is outdated

12.4 (2019-10-22)

Manage

• Consolidate cycle analytics and charts into new project Analytics sidebar
• Make GitLab More Social! Add 'follow a user' button. FY20 Vision

Create

• Open unchanged files in merge request
• Display change that made discussion outdated in-line
• Add Code Owners approvals to the API FY20 Vision

Verify

• Allow child pipelines to trigger their own child pipelines FY20 Vision
• Shared Workspaces MVC FY20 Vision
• Automatic authorization for Visual Review Tools Starter Premium FY20 Vision
• Pipeline auto-cancellation of unneeded running jobs
• Auto-determine most efficient parallelization factor for test runs Starter FY20 Vision
• Merge request pipelines for forks Premium FY20 Vision
• Trigger pipeline when another project is rebuilt Premium
• Inject dynamic environment variables
• Docker Artifact caching MVC FY20 Vision

Package

• Automatically clean up container image registry per desired storage limits
• Implement Docker Distribution in-line Garbage Collection (removal of Blobs)
• Add support for NuGet (.net package manager) FY20 Vision
• Container Registry improvements FY20 Vision
• Retention/expiration policy for container images FY20 Vision
• Add authentication support for CI_JOB_TOKEN to Conan Registry Premium FY20 Vision

Release

• Make how to use review apps with Dockerfiles more obvious
• Make review apps more obvious
• Provide a mechanism to clean up stale environments
• One button to enable review apps, auto-edit .gitlab-ci.yml, auto-configure GKE
• Add optional persistent storage between Pages runs
• Dynamic Secrets MVC FY20 Vision
• Allow per-site custom configuration of GitLab Pages using a file in the repo

Configure

• Flag over-provisioned kubernetes deployments

Monitor

• Display top consumers of cluster resources
• Add Pod Logs to Operations tab Ultimate

Secure

• SAST for Kubernetes manifests
• Show the detailed status of security testing in the merge request Ultimate
• Integrate Container Scanning into GitLab Container Registry
• Research: Collect ModSecurity information and show them to users Ultimate
• Include fuzzy testing in DAST Ultimate
• Group License Management Ultimate
• Automatically merge a vulnerability fix when ready
• Security Dashboard as an option for default dashboard Ultimate
• DAST for the master branch
• Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

12.5 (2019-11-22)

Package

• How to transfer project with container registry enabled?

Release

• Report on feature flags that are enabled but no longer needed
• Automatically create change request ticket in ServiceNow Premium

Secure

• Allow multiple container scanning reports for a single change

12.6 (2019-12-22)

Create

• Subscribe to code changes FY20 Vision

Secure

• Dependency Scanning for Go Ultimate

12.7 (2020-01-22)

Manage

• Add a resume/CV timeline to profile page

Verify

• Add pipeline status graph to charts
• Make CI templates first class when setting up CI FY20 Vision
• Group-level review apps
• Allow a list of files in CI include:file syntax
• Show pipeline iid in pipelines page
• Built in support for visual regression testing FY20 Vision
• Record reason for skipping pipelines/jobs
• Allow Self-Managed Instances access to GitLab hosted runners
• Automated a11y scanning of Review Apps Premium FY20 Vision
• Group level pipeline dashboard Premium FY20 Vision
• Expand pipeline dashboard to contain stages Premium FY20 Vision
• Group level required CI jobs (group level required include:) Premium
• Add ability to take screenshot in Visual Review Tool Starter FY20 Vision
• Add full screen annotations to Visual Review tool Starter FY20 Vision
• Measure usage of Integrated Load Testing Premium
• Integrate Artillery.io for Integrated Testing Premium
• Show frequently visited projects when adding projects to Operations Dashboard Premium
• Pre-create/cache environment for upcoming jobs
• Automatic multi-cloud validation MVC Premium FY20 Vision
• CI View for Code Quality Starter
• Continue code quality: show result when Pipeline runs Starter
• CI View for Selenium MVC Premium FY20 Vision
• VMware vSphere for the runner-manager to support MacOS Runners FY20 Vision
• Shell executor doesn't clean up build directories

Package

• Allow clean up of container image registry through web UI
• Global Deploy Tokens

Release

• Add "direct" links to releases and their assets
• Add instructions for setting up review apps with new project templates
• Webhooks/Services events for releases in integrations
• Support typed AWS environment variables
• Add support for publishing releases to guest users in private projects
• Make it possible to add/edit/delete a release using the UI FY20 Vision
• Provide method to automatically insert changelog into release
• Add more Release artifact types
• Release generation from within .gitlab-ci.yml FY20 Vision
• Add cookie-based access to Feature Flags Premium FY20 Vision
• Binary Authorization MVC Ultimate FY20 Vision
• Constant Deployment Starter
• Bundle Vault with GitLab omnibus FY20 Vision

Configure

• Add integrated load testing to Auto DevOps Premium FY20 Vision

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