Software Update: GitLab 11.1.1

You can compare GitLab with the more famous GitHubbut contains some subtle differences. It is an environment for managing Git repositories on-premises. It is published under the MIT Expat License and developed in Ruby on Rails. GitLab is available in two versions: the free-to-use Community Edition and a paid Enterprise Edition, with more features aimed at large businesses. The different flavors are on this page explained. The development team has released GitLab 11.1.1 with the following changes:

Version 11.1.1

• CE/EE: Add missing Gitaly branch_update nil checks. !20711
• CE/EE: Fix filename for accelerated uploads.
• CE/EE: Add uploader support to Import/Export uploads. !20484
• EE: Fix geo download service ImportExportDownloader unitialized constantly. !6567
• EE: Geo – Allow repository verification to be disabled on a secondary node. !6599

GitLab 11.1 released with Security Dashboards and enhanced code search

In GitLab 11.1 we are shipping increased security visibility with dashboards and views to give you contextual information in the right place at the right time along with better code search, a heap of UX improvements, and a lot more!

Increased visibility for your security team
GitLab is designed for collaboration. Our mission is for everyone to contribute, and specifically we’ve designed a tool so that Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations, and Security can all collaborate together. It’s why we’ve built the entire software development and operations lifecycle into a single application. And it’s why we’ve built the Merge Request to be a powerful tool for collaboration.

But sometimes, the Merge Request isn’t the right view for your needs.

MRs are great when you want to see how a discrete change is affecting your app. But what if you want a higher-level view? Sometimes you want visibility into how all current security issues are affecting a branch in aggregate. The new Security Dashboard now gives you this visibility. This lets you make decisions about priority so you can focus remediation efforts on the most important vulnerabilities. Instead of having to collate reports across Merge Requests, now it’s all in one place. We see this as being especially helpful for security operations and engineering. They now have a specific view in GitLab to help them get their job done. Working right from the dashboard, security teams can adjust the criticality weight of vulnerabilities, creating issues to remediate critical items while dismissing others so they don’t repeatedly show up in reports.

Find what you’re looking for faster
Robust code searching capabilities are fundamental to developer productivity. Whether you are a new developer on a project or simply trying to navigate a large code base before adding a new feature, search is the way you become familiar with the key areas you need to understand. While code search has been available for a long time in GitLab, today, we’ve made it even better. With enhancements to the advanced search syntax, you can now filter by filename, path, and extension, enabling you to find the right files more quickly.

Even more!
In addition to great new security functionality, we’ve also shipped an improved UX with a redesigned Merge Request widget, a Merge Request panel in the Web IDE, redesigned contribution analytics, and more!

Key features released in GitLab 11.1

• Security Dashboard for projects
• File name and path filters for advanced code search
• Container Scanning and DAST reports at pipeline level
• SAST support for Node.js
• Merge request widget info and pipeline sections redesign
• Groups dropdown in navigation
• View merge request description in the Web IDE

Other improvements in GitLab 11.1

• Contribution Analytics redesign
• Milestone list pages redesign
• GitLab subgroups in JIRA Development panel
• GitLab Flavored Markdown with CommonMark
• Confidential issue quick action
• Autocomplete epics and labels in epics
• Merge request comments Vue.js refactor
• Issue board configuration API
• Transfer projects between namespaces via API
• Merge request locked state in API
• Improved user experience on SSH key configuration
• Initialize README on project creation
• ‘Contribute to GitLab’ link
• Improved Web IDE staging and committing
• New HEAD method in File API
• Allow SAML assurance level to bypass 2FA
• Application Metrics now available in Operations menu
• Improved Kubernetes Cluster page design
• Store user ID in OpenID Connect sub claim
• Manage third party offers
• GitLab Runner 11.1
• Geo improvements
• Performance improvements
• Omnibus improvements