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.
In order to get reproducible builds work reliably, we need to have buildserver create be fully automatic, and be able to run in VMs. It should also handle caching downloads well, so that people can easily rebuild their buildserver, and CI builds don't have to download gigs and gigs for each run. These are some related fixes.