gitlab-runner 16.11.0 exits almost immediately with "FATAL: exit status 1"

Summary

Starting with gitlab-runner 16.11.0 the gitlab-runner utility exits almost immediately with the error "FATAL: exit status 1"

Steps to reproduce

Minimum working example (empty .gitlab-ci.yml):

mkdir test
cd test
git init .
git commit --allow-empty -m "initial commit"
touch .gitlab-ci.yml
git add .gitlab-ci.yml
git commit -m "test"
gitlab-runner exec shell build

.gitlab-ci.yml

Actual behavior

Runtime platform                                    arch=amd64 os=linux pid=179134 revision=91a27b2a version=16.11.0
FATAL: exit status 1               

Expected behavior

In this example (empty CI instructions):

Runtime platform                                    arch=amd64 os=linux pid=183541 revision=81ab07f6 version=16.10.0
FATAL: no job named "build"

Environment description

Tried with both "shell" and "docker" executors, same problem. Not using a config.toml, since I'm calling gitlab-runner directly.

Used GitLab Runner version

Version:      16.11.0
Git revision: 91a27b2a
Git branch:   16-11-stable
GO version:   go1.21.9
Built:        2024-04-18T19:21:08+0000
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Note: 16.10.0 gitlab-runner version works