What's new in GitLab 17.8?

The new version 17.8 of GitLab has many improvements and additions for IT professionals.

Improvements for developers

• Changed work with releases

To simplify control over CI/CD, a release-specific view of deployments has been added.

• Experiments with ML models

From now on, you can conduct and analyze experiments, as well as track machine learning model versions directly in GitLab.

• Additional security methods.

The ability to block the deletion of images has been added. This approach will have a significant impact on eliminating the possibility of accidental loss of information in containerized repositories.

• Hosting Runner is now available for Linux systems

Support for managed runners for Linux, which greatly simplifies the work of the whole team.

These are just a few of the nearly 60 improvements in the new version. In addition, users will be able to evaluate improvements in APIs, changes in project management, and considerable performance optimization.