The 17.0 major release is coming on May 16, 2024! This version brings many exciting improvements to GitLab, but also removes some deprecated features. We are introducing three breaking change windows during which we expect breaking changes to be deployed to GitLab.com. You can read more about it on our blogpost. The first breaking change window begins 2024-04-22 09:00UTC and ends 2024-04-24 22:00UTC.
The basebox currently used by most our branches is now 4 months old, so every build on Jenkins starts by deleting it… and then recreates it from scratch. Six months is more in line with the delay between our major releases these days. This reverts commit fc1bba10.