Change default artifact name

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Description

Currently, when you download a pipeline artifact, the file is called artifacts.zip by default. That name can be overridden in .gitlab-ci.yml using artifacts:name. We should use a better default name though. This is especially important when downloading artifacts from multiple jobs in the same pipeline. If they all have the same name, you can't easily tell which is which.

Proposal

Default artifact name to the job name ${CI_BUILD_NAME}.

Links

  • From https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5142#note_13077999
Edited Aug 29, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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