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New Features of GitLab From the Last Quarter of 2021
In this article, you will learn about the most important features of GitLab 14.4 (October), 14.5 (November), and 14.6 (December).
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed the latest versions of GitLab, right? The last few months of 2021 have been particularly busy for me since the post on GitLab 14.3 release.
Rest assured, I’m going to present you the features that marked my attention for the last three releases of 2021 in this article.
Are you ready to review three months of functionality?
October — 14.4
Edit the current file with a single keystroke
I don’t usually learn the shortcuts of the application I used, but I’ll definitively use this one on GitLab! Each day, I need to manually edit a file (I could not automate it, it needs a human) so it will be quicker to change it now!
November — 14.5
Explore project topics tab
Do you remember adding topics to your GitLab projects? Before this release, I didn’t even know if it was for anything other than looking pretty. 🙈
It would have been useful to the Apache Log4J vulnerabilities, we could have found quicker all Java applications just by looking at the Java topic. That would have required all projects to have the correct metadata, but that's another story.
Topic management in the Admin Area
If I was still working at the Université de Sherbrooke, this is certainly a characteristic that I would have liked to explore more! I’ve always found it…
