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GitLab Patch Release: 13.7.1

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Today we are releasing version 13.7.1 for GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. This version resolves a number of regressions and bugs in this month's 13.7 release and prior versions. GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Fix project transfer corrupting shared runners state Add roadmap filters to docs Fix DAST profiles deletion Update automation instructions for DB setup Improve AWS EKS troubleshooting documentation Fix Redis HLL weekly keys Geo: Fix LFS for location-aware Git URL Fix error for projects without security setting Ensure patroni and consul remain up during upgrade migrations Important notes on upgrading For multi-node deployments, this version should not require any downtime . Please be aware that by default the Omnibus packages will stop, run migrations, and start again, no matter how “big” or “small” the upgrade is. This behavior can be changed by adding a /etc/gitlab/skip-auto-reconfigure file, which is only used for updates ....

Building a Handbook First Remote Learning Culture

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   This blog post is Unfiltered    Learning & Development (L&D) is a vital function of any organization’s People or HR team. When most professionals think of L&D, they may remember sitting in the back of a conference room hearing a corporate trainer deliver slides, or maybe accessing self-paced training once or twice a year, or perhaps taking a survey on how to grow their skills. L&D can be an afterthought for many organizations, but for GitLab, it’s a huge priority! Since GitLab is all-remote and our Handbook is our primary source of learning, you may be asking yourself, how does L&D create and reinforce a remote learning culture? GitLab’s Handbook is over 8,000 pages long, and it grows every day. We consider each page to be a source of learning & development material. Pages are for training new team members on GitLab processes, culture, ways of working, and much more. The Handbook is publicly available worldwide, and anyone can learn ...

GitLab 13.7 released with merge request reviewers and automatic rollback upon failure

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What a year 2020 has been! We're excited to share what's new in 13.7 with over 45 features and improvements shipping just in time for the holidays! On behalf of everyone at GitLab, I want to take a second to thank everyone in our community for your contributions and the positive impact you've made. Without you, GitLab would not be what it is today. Here's to you and all of our team members that helped make 2020 an incredible year despite the adversity and unprecedented times. Please continue staying safe, happy, and healthy this holiday season. Here's what you can look forward to in 13.7: Enhanced project management for cross-collaboration Merge Requests (MRs) are crucial to foster cross-collaboration and can be directly linked to relevant issues, providing a central location to communicate via comments, suggest code changes, perform code reviews, and much more. In this release, we've added merge request reviewers , a capability to improve the code review ...