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 second breaking change window begins 2024-04-29 09:00 UTC and ends 2024-05-01 22:00 UTC.
Since we are fetching files from dev for security releases, direct links will no longer work (we deprecated using PAT for that for private projects). The recommended way is to use API for accessing files.
PS: All of this will become obsolete once https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/issues/1230 is implemented