GitLab Runner v19.1.0 release notes

feat(kubernetes): add MatchLabelKeys & MismatchLabelKeys for PodAffinityTerm !6711 (Tobias Germer @germert)
Fall back to direct polling when the Job Router is disabled !6811
Add native windows/arm64 helper binary build target !6697 (Shanush Prema Thasarathan @shanushpt)
Add suspend/resume support to the Docker Autoscaler executor !6719
Skip job request and warn when runner token is empty !6821
Use fresh context in StopKillWait when build ctx is cancelled !6636
Retry secrets retrieval !6072 (Syed Saif Ali Alvi @syedsaifalialvi)
Bundle native arm64 helper binary in windows-servercore-ltsc2025-arm64 image !6716 (Shanush Prema Thasarathan @shanushpt)
docker+machine: Add discovered placement labels to autoscaling metrics !6740
Kubernetes executor: add imagePullSecrets support for pause pods !6672 (Ashmit Sharma @4shm1td06)
Docker: support PidMode for setting PID namespace !6694 (Diego Becciolini @itizir)
Send environment key as part of job status update !6813
Add get_sources timeout to runner config !6822
Introduce gitlab_runner_process_state_info metric !6793

Fix jobs stuck in canceling due to missing final update !6770
clear-docker-cache: fall back to podman when docker is absent !6755
Fix concrete execution divergences from abstract shell !6801
Silence exec-cleanup warning under Podman !6773
Fix Bash script body leak on job cancellation !6784
clear-docker-cache: drop unsupported -a from podman volume prune !6808
Update to Go 1.26.3 !6760
Forward job variables to concrete's nested run: dispatch !6825
Scope http.proactiveAuth to remote host !6798
docker+machine: cap finalizeRemoval retries !6791
Remove need for grep to enable pipefail !6739 (Matt Clarkson @mattyclarkson)
Update warning for alias overlap in executors/docker/services.go !6742
Expand variables in image_name log fields !6809
Fix flaky test !6786

Product Docs AI Translation: GITTECHA-704 #1 !6785
Product Docs AI Translation: GITTECHA-707 #1 !6796
Add artifact timeout options !6761
Refactor prepare_timeout !6778
Update docker-machine version to the latest one !6775
Update redirecting links to resolved URLs !6831
Docs - May 2026 maintenance - fix links !6803
Add french and korean seed content !6751
Update FF_USE_ADAPTIVE_REQUEST_CONCURRENCY section for accuracy !6820
docs(docker): document dind MTU inheritance gap and workaround !6737
Manage golangci-lint via mise !6824
Honor FF_TIMESTAMPS and reclassify benign exec outcomes in concrete !6769
Explicitly tell to move away from the Fargate driver !6667
Clarify FIPS Runner support across distributions !6812
go: Update module k8s.io/apimachinery to v0.35.2 !6482
Set explicit FailureReason on BuildError constructions across executors !6724
Update base images version to pick up CVE fixes !6765
Product Docs AI Translation: GITTECHA-708 #1 !6797
Argo Translations from GITTECHA-647 #1 !6777
Add missing appsec labels !5680
Docs Follow-Up: Supported shells !6718 (Pishel @pishel65)
Restore ShellWriter CommandWithStdin !6608 (Guillaume Chauvel @guillaume.chauvel)
Fix cidr typo !6676 (Paul Gear @paulgear)
Disable TestKubernetesBuildPodResources !6827
Product Docs AI Translation: GITTECHA-702 #1 !6789
Product Docs AI Translation: GITTECHA-706 #1 !6795
Update docker-machine version !6800
Add a few more flaky tests to .flaky-tests !6780

GitLab Runner v19.1.0