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.
this is needed e.g. for constructions like for (int i,...); by default some compilers in older Linux systems, eg Ubuntu Trusty, still default to C89, giving a build error. This fix will try to make sure that C99 is used, with an extra option.