GitLab (git.doit.wisc.edu) Upgrade to v18 Planned on 8/19/2025
Posted: 2025-07-30 17:11:41 Expiration: 2025-08-21 17:11:41
Disclaimer: This news item was originally posted on 2025-07-30 17:11:41. Its content may no longer be timely or accurate.
GitLab will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 19, 10:00-11:59PM while the upgrade from GitLab 17.11 to 18 is performed.
What should users do?
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Familiarize yourself with GitLab 18 Key Improvements and Breaking Changes
- Prepare to update any GitLab runners you manage to major version 18. Keeping your runners in the same major version as the GitLab instance avoids potential problems
- Before the upgrade, Project Maintainers using GitLabCI job tokens for cross-project authentication should populate their project’s Authorized groups and projects allowlists using the auto-population tool provided by GitLab
- Refer to the outage notification for any updates during scheduled maintenance
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Contact the Shared Tools team with any questions by emailing help@doit.wisc.edu
Highlighted Changes
- All new Projects will use Job token permissions to control access to GitLabCI Job tokens, rather than the deprecated Limit access from this project setting
- All tokens for authentication to GitLab Dependency Proxy must now include the read_registry and write_registry scopes
-- Shared Tools: Benjamin Sousa