# GitLab Runner v19.0.0

- Product: GitLab Runner (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gitlab-runner)
- Vendor: GitLab
- Date: 2026-05-22
- Version: v19.0.0
- Original notes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/tags/v19.0.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/gitlab-runner/releases/v19.0.0

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Version v19.0.0

- **added** — Add OpenTelemetry tracing for CI job execution
- **added** — Add LTSC2025 and LTSC2025-arm64 based gitlab-runner-helper images for windows
- **added** — Use Pipeline ID from job payload for logging
- **added** — Allow configuring parallelism and chunk sizes for cache uploads
- **added** — Add mount propagation option to emptyDir volumes
- **added** — Add StepRunnerStream writer that detects pre-stamped lines
- **added** — Add mode label to failed_jobs_total and job_duration_seconds metrics
- **added** — Add support for nfs mounts
- **added** — Add suspend/resume support for instance autoscaler executor
- **added** — Add prepare_timeout config field
- **added** — Add variable with network name when using FF_NETWORK_PER_BUILD
- **added** — Add support for specifying seccomp profile path in Docker executor
- **changed** — Enforce prepare_timeout config field
- **changed** — Treat span id as required
- **changed** — Cache: list valid types and accept any case for cache Type
- **changed** — Normalize Windows exit codes from unsigned to signed 32-bit
- **changed** — Update the parallels executor to work with Windows guests
- **fixed** — Recover helper argv when image entrypoint drops CMD
- **fixed** — Adaptive request concurrency: do not treat retried requests as capacity
- **fixed** — Fix proxy-exec and step-runner hangs when scripts spawn background processes
- **security** — Resolve CVE-2026-32285 in github.com/invopop/jsonschema dependency

###### New features

- Document prepare_timeout setting [!6731](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6731)
- Add OpenTelemetry tracing for CI job execution [!6518](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6518)
- Add LTSC2025 and LTSC2025-arm64 based gitlab-runner-helper images for windows [!6033](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6033) (Shanush Prema Thasarathan @shanushpt)
- Use Pipeline ID form job payload for logging and similar [!6631](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6631)
- Allow configuring parallelism and chunk sizes for cache uploads and... [!6401](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6401) (Rafael Fonseca @rafael.fonseca1)
- Dispatch run: through concrete via a nested step-runner job [!6703](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6703)
- Add mount propagation option to emptyDir volumes [!6553](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6553) (Rafael Fonseca @rafael.fonseca1)
- Add StepRunnerStream writer that detects pre-stamped lines [!6710](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6710)
- Enforce prepare_timeout config field [!6708](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6708)
- Add mode label to failed_jobs_total and job_duration_seconds metrics [!6620](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6620)
- User Job Cancellation Calls Cancel API [!6681](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6681)
- Treat span id as required [!6692](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6692)
- Map step-runner errors to job failure reasons [!6597](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6597)
- Add support for nfs mounts [!6544](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6544) (Julian Rettelbach @rettelbachj)
- Cache: list valid types and accept any case for cache Type [!6736](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6736)
- Add suspend/resume support for instance autoscaler executor [!6570](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6570)
- Add prepare_timeout config field [!6653](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6653)
- Add variable with network name when using FF_NETWORK_PER_BUILD [!6632](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6632) (Pishel @pishel65)

###### Bug fixes

- Merge branch 'sh-fix-role-arn-injection' into 'main' [!6714](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6714)
- Update Kubernetes executor service container naming documentation [!6730](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6730)
- Recover helper argv when image entrypoint drops CMD [!6725](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6725)
- Adaptive request concurrency: do not treat retried requests as capacity [!6677](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6677)
- Restore timeout-warning trace parity with legacy in concrete mode [!6704](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6704)
- Go Dependency update: github.com/invopop/jsonschema to resolve CVE-2026-32285 [!6696](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6696)
- Merge branch 'security-fix-k8s-uid-gid-root-bypass' into 'main' [!6643](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6643)
- Add support for specifying seccomp profile path in Docker executor [!6602](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6602) (Felix Geyer @debfx)
- Fix proxy-exec and step-runner hangs when scripts spawn background processes [!6707](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6707)
- Fix per secret overrides for role_arn and role_session_name AWS Secrets Manager integration [!6067](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/6067) (derikwang @derik01)
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