GitLab Release CLI tool (deprecated)

This feature was deprecated in GitLab 18.0 and is planned for removal in 20.0. Use the GitLab CLI instead.

This change is a breaking change.

Migrate from release-cli to glab CLI

To migrate from release-cli to glab CLI, update your CI/CD job with the release keyword to use the cli:latest image:

release_job:
  stage: release
  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli:latest
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
  script:
    - echo "Running the release job."
  release:
    tag_name: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
    name: 'Release $CI_COMMIT_TAG'
    description: 'Release created using the CLI.'

For more information, see release.

Fall back to release-cli

CI/CD jobs that use the release keyword use a script that falls back to using release-cli if the required glab version is not available on the runner. The fallback logic is a safe-guard to ensure that projects that have not yet migrated to use glab CLI can continue working.

This fallback is scheduled to be removed in GitLab 20.0 with the removal of release-cli.