• Removed in 15.0
  • API: stale status returned instead of offline or not_connected
  • Audit events for repository push events
  • Background upload for object storage
    • Encrypted S3 buckets
    • 403 errors
    • remote_directory with a path prefix
  • Container Network and Host Security
  • Container registry authentication with htpasswd
  • Custom geo:db:* Rake tasks are no longer available
  • DS_DEFAULT_ANALYZERS environment variable
  • Dependency Scanning default Java version changed to 17
  • ELK stack logging
  • Elasticsearch 6.8.x in GitLab 15.0
  • End of support for Python 3.6 in Dependency Scanning
  • External status check API breaking changes
  • GitLab Serverless
  • Gitaly nodes in virtual storage
  • GraphQL permissions change for Package settings
  • Jaeger integration
  • Known host required for GitLab Runner SSH executor
  • Legacy Geo Admin UI routes
  • Legacy approval status names in License Compliance API
  • Move Gitaly Cluster Praefect database_host_no_proxy and database_port_no_proxy configs
  • Move custom_hooks_dir setting from GitLab Shell to Gitaly
  • OAuth implicit grant
  • OAuth tokens without an expiration
  • Optional enforcement of SSH expiration
  • Optional enforcement of personal access token expiration
  • Out-of-the-box SAST (SpotBugs) support for Java 8
  • Pipelines field from the version field
  • Pseudonymizer
  • Request profiling
  • Required pipeline configurations in Premium tier
  • Retire-JS Dependency Scanning tool
  • Runner status not_connected API value
  • SAST support for .NET 2.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • Secret Detection configuration variables
  • Self-managed certificate-based integration with Kubernetes feature flagged
  • Sidekiq configuration for metrics and health checks
  • Static Site Editor
  • Support for gitaly['internal_socket_dir']
  • Support for legacy format of config/database.yml
  • Test coverage project CI/CD setting
  • The promote-db command is no longer available from gitlab-ctl
  • Update to the Container Registry group-level API
  • Versions from PackageType
  • Vulnerability Check
  • Managed-Cluster-Applications.gitlab-ci.yml
  • artifacts:reports:cobertura keyword
  • defaultMergeCommitMessageWithDescription GraphQL API field
  • dependency_proxy_for_private_groups feature flag
  • omniauth-kerberos gem
  • promote-to-primary-node command from gitlab-ctl
  • push_rules_supersede_code_owners feature flag
  • type and types keyword from CI/CD configuration
  • bundler-audit Dependency Scanning tool
• Removed in 14.10
  • Permissions change for downloading Composer dependencies
• Removed in 14.9
  • Integrated error tracking disabled by default
• Removed in 14.6
  • Limit the number of triggered pipeline to 25K in free tier
  • Release CLI distributed as a generic package
• Removed in 14.3
  • Introduced limit of 50 tags for jobs
  • List project pipelines API endpoint removes name support in 14.3
  • Use of legacy storage setting
• Removed in 14.2
  • Max job log file size of 100 MB
• Removed in 14.1
  • Remove support for prometheus.listen_address and prometheus.enable
  • Remove support for older browsers
• Removed in 14.0
  • Auto Deploy CI template v1
  • Breaking changes to Terraform CI template
  • Code Quality RuboCop support changed
  • Container Scanning Engine Clair
  • DAST default template stages
  • DAST environment variable renaming and removal
  • Default Browser Performance testing job renamed in GitLab 14.0
  • Default DAST spider begins crawling at target URL
  • Default branch name for new repositories now main
  • Dependency Scanning
  • Deprecated GraphQL fields
  • DevOps Adoption API Segments
  • Disk source configuration for GitLab Pages
  • Experimental prefix in Sidekiq queue selector options
  • External Pipeline Validation Service Code Changes
  • Geo Foreign Data Wrapper settings
  • GitLab OAuth implicit grant
  • GitLab Runner helper image in GitLab.com Container Registry
  • GitLab Runner installation to ignore the skel directory
  • Gitaly Cluster SQL primary elector
  • Global SAST_ANALYZER_IMAGE_TAG in SAST CI template
  • Hardcoded master in CI/CD templates
  • Helm v2 support
  • Legacy DAST domain validation
  • Legacy feature flags
  • Legacy fields from DAST report
  • Legacy storage
  • License Compliance
  • Limit projects returned in GET /groups/:id/
  • Make pwsh the default shell for newly-registered Windows Runners
  • Migrate from SAST_DEFAULT_ANALYZERS to SAST_EXCLUDED_ANALYZERS
  • Off peak time mode configuration for Docker Machine autoscaling
  • OpenSUSE Leap 15.1
  • PostgreSQL 11 support
  • Redundant timestamp field from DORA metrics API payload
  • Release description in the Tags API
  • Ruby version changed in Ruby.gitlab-ci.yml
  • SAST analyzer SAST_GOSEC_CONFIG variable
  • Service Templates
  • Success and failure for finished build metric conversion
  • Terraform template version
  • Ubuntu 16.04 support
  • Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) package
  • Unicorn in GitLab self-managed
  • WIP merge requests renamed ‘draft merge requests’
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Windows Server 1903 image support
  • Windows Server 1909 image support
  • /usr/lib/gitlab-runner symlink from package
  • ?w=1 URL parameter to ignore whitespace changes
  • CI_PROJECT_CONFIG_PATH variable
  • FF_RESET_HELPER_IMAGE_ENTRYPOINT feature flag
  • FF_SHELL_EXECUTOR_USE_LEGACY_PROCESS_KILL feature flag
  • FF_USE_GO_CLOUD_WITH_CACHE_ARCHIVER feature flag
  • secret_detection_default_branch job
  • trace parameter in jobs API

Removals by version

In each release, GitLab removes features that were deprecated in an earlier release. Some features cause breaking changes when they are removed.