GitLab Runner v18.11.0

New features

• Consolidate the HTTP Status Code field !6492
• Change the concrete helper image to use shell-form CMD !6591
• Cache AssumeRole credentials to reduce STS requests !6549
• Implement Concrete CI Function !6410
• Add logging field validator CI job !6580
• Fix default artifacts upload timeout values !6584
• Add k8s nodename to pod phase output !6311 (Thorsten Banhart @banhartt)
• Add native steps job counter metric !6369
• Bundle git and CA certificates for concrete runner !6504
• Update builtins to use step-runner BuiltinContext interface !6616
• Add seccomp and AppArmor profile support to Kubernetes executor security context !6512 (Marc Ullman @MarcUllman)
• Kubernetes: add PodDisruptionBudget support for job pods !6331
• Pass socket path from step-runner serve to proxy command !6507
• Resolve "Windows Runners: Document "session 0" restrictions (screen resolution statically set to 1024x768)" !4994
• Kubernetes: autoscaler for idle capacity via pause pods !6334

Bug fixes

• Update FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS documentation to reflect current behavior !6519 (Pishel65 @pishel65)
• Rate-limit and instrument S3 AssumeRole calls !6528
• Cache/s3v2: cache S3 client to reduce IMDS requests !6530
• PowerShell/Pwsh environment variables can't process special characters in their names. !6502 (Pishel65 @pishel65)
• Fix proxy-mask credential store file permissions on Unix !6510
• Fix disable_cache disabling all volumes instead of only cache !6552 (Aaron Döppner @aarondpn-sp)
• Restore fixed runner command path !6529
• Use custom endpoint in detectBucketLocation !6532
• Log warning when DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG credentials resolution fails !6578
• Properly escape ANSI color codes in shell scripts !6527
• Improve step_script to bring it on part with Runner legacy path !6596
• Revert "Remove GPG signing color" !6554

Maintenance

• No global executors !6508
• Patch(cache): ensure cache exists before uploading !6569
• Highlight actively developed executors !6585
• Bump up runner images version to 0.0.38 !6541
• Cache: rename local artifact when FF_HASH_CACHE_KEYS is toggled !6546
• Update Windows backward compatibility support !6523 (Pishel65 @pishel65)
• Add Support for Windows Server 24H2 !6522 (Pishel65 @pishel65)
• Add Pipeline Security group as code owners for secrets managers !6474
• Link to main branch for runner-helper Dockerfiles !6533 (Sven Hoexter @hoexter)
• Standardize runner capitalization in Docker Machine autoscale docs !6615
• Adding test for new alert format !6550
• Update CI components !6517
• Fix autoscale documentation typos !6611 (Bob Singh @bobsingh.dev)
• Add boundary test cases for statusClass !6551 (Bob Singh @bobsingh.dev)
• Pilot runners failover !6536
• Remove all references to PackageCloud !6514
• Add Duo Workflow agent configuration and instructions !6588
• Properly support Job Router FF from runner config !6545
• AI Translated Documentation Push: GITTECHA-610 !6577
• Docs(docker-machine): update docs !6534
• Creating documentation about Windows helper images !6525 (Pishel65 @pishel65)
• Documented fallback correlation ID !6531
• Docs maintenance: Fix and update broken URLs !6526
• Revert "Merge branch 'malvarez-consolidate-http-status-code-field' into 'main'" !6524
• Removing the mention of packagecloud !6582
• Fix alert boxes in translated documentation !6595
• Changing warning format !6539
• Rename Kubernetes Agent Server to GitLab Relay (KAS) !6583
• Document interactive desktop requirement for Windows GUI tests !6571
• Clarify post_build_script and after_script execution behavior !6573
• Update RPM package naming from amd64 to x86_64 !6543
• Updating note format !6537
• Tidy up Markdown in documentation !6520