What's new in GitLab

Monthly releases, developer resources, and the latest from the GitLab team.

Monthly releases

February 19, 2026

GitLab 18.9 released with self-hosted AI models

Self-hosted agentic AI with model choice, security insights that drive remediation, and developer experience improvements your teams have been asking for.

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Blog

New GitLab metrics and registry features help reduce CI/CD bottlenecks

See how CI/CD Job Performance Metrics and Container Virtual Registry, currently in beta, help platform teams quickly spot slow jobs and simplify multi-registry container pulls.

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Track vulnerability remediation with the updated GitLab Security Dashboard

Quickly prioritize remediation on high-risk projects and measure progress with vulnerability insights.

Blog

Agentic AI, enterprise control: Self-hosted Duo Agent Platform and BYOM

Learn how GitLab 18.9 gives regulated enterprises governed agentic AI through self-hosted Duo Agent Platform and Bring Your Own Model support.

This month’s Notable Contributor: Pooja Ghanghas

Pooja has made significant contributions to ongoing efforts at GitLab to migrate legacy dropdown components to our modern dropdown architecture.

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GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted for Online Cloud Licenses

Organizations in regulated industries can now run GitLab Duo Agent Platform in production on online cloud licenses while using models hosted on their own infrastructure or approved cloud environments.

Manage

Bring Your Own Model (BYOM)

BYOM extends GitLab Duo Agent Platform flexibility by allowing administrators to connect third-party or self-hosted models through the GitLab AI Gateway.

Code

Repository file tree browser

The repository file tree browser is structured like a collapsible drawer that displays your repository's files and directories alongside the file list and file view.

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Security Dashboard: Track vulnerability remediation

The updated Security Dashboard consolidates vulnerability data into a single view with risk scoring, remediation velocity, and vulnerability age distribution.

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Analyze

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Security attributes and context filtering

Tag assets with business impact, application, business unit, internet exposure, and lifecycle stage to prioritize vulnerabilities by impact rather than raw scan volume.

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Vulnerability resolution with GitLab Duo Agent Platform (Beta)

The new SAST vulnerability resolution flow autonomously analyzes findings, reasons through surrounding code context, generates a context-aware fix, and creates a merge request.

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Show security reports from child pipelines in merge requests

The merge request widget now displays security findings from child pipelines alongside parent pipeline results.

Deploy

Container virtual registry (Beta)

The container virtual registry creates a single GitLab endpoint with multiple upstream sources (Docker Hub, Harbor, Quay) and built-in pull-through caching.

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CI/CD job performance metrics (Limited-Availability Beta)

See P50 and P95 job duration, failure rate, and stage for each job directly in the CI/CD Analytics page, sortable and searchable by job name across the last 30 days.

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GitLab Duo Agent Platform included in free trials with GitLab Ultimate

Ultimate trials on GitLab.com and self-managed now ship with GitLab Duo Agent Platform trial credits, providing 24 credits per user valid for the full 30-day trial period. Teams can evaluate agents and flows under the same usage model they will use in production.

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99.9% uptime SLA for GitLab Ultimate

GitLab now commits to a 99.9% monthly uptime percentage for Ultimate customers who purchased or renewed on or after January 1, 2026.

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Zero downtime upgrades for cloud-native deployments

Comprehensive documentation is now available for zero downtime upgrades with the GitLab Helm Chart, validated against GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and Operator v1 implementations.

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