Change runner version naming from `beta` to `pre` to avoid confusion
Problem descripton
Customers running a job on SaaS runners currently see the beta
references the naming that we have in version, which we can see for example at the beginning of every job log:
Running with gitlab-runner 16.1.0~beta.59.g83c66823 (83c66823)
(...)
This leads to confusion and customer thinking we are running untested runner versions on hosted runners.
Proposal
To avoid this confusion, we want to rename the version from beta
to pre
, as follows:
Running with gitlab-runner 16.1.0~pre.59.g83c66823 (83c66823)
(...)
We follow the same for GitLab versions. For example the pre
word is used, when you go to the help page, for example at https://gitlab.com/help (you need to be logged in), our continuously deployed instance shows:
GitLab Enterprise Edition 16.1.0-pre 60f857a82ee
Edited by Gabriel Engel