Deprecation & Removal of Visual Review Tool

Release notes

The setting for enabling Visual Reviews is removed due to low usage. There is no replacement feature.

Deprecation Summary

Deprecating Visual Review Tools, with removal in 17.0. The remaining components of Review Apps is not affected by this change. The setting for enabling Visual Reviews will be removed in 17.0 and customers will not longer have access to this feature. We recommend customers stop using this feature prior to 17.0, as it will no longer be supported.

Breaking Change

Affected Topology

This deprecation affects both self-managed and SaaS users.

Affected Tier

• Premium

Checklists

• remove visual review tool feature
• remove the visual-review-bot user

Labels

• This issue is labeled deprecation, and with the relevant ~devops::, ~group::, and ~Category: labels.
• This issue is labeled breaking change if the removal of the deprecated item will be a breaking change.

Timeline

Please add links to the relevant merge requests.

• As soon as possible, but no later than the third milestone preceding the major release (for example, given the following release schedule: 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 15.0 – 14.8 is the third milestone preceding the major release):
  • A deprecation announcement entry has been created so the deprecation will appear in release posts and on the general deprecation page.
  • Documentation has been updated to mark the feature as deprecated.
• On or before the major milestone: A removal entry has been created so the removal will appear on the removals by milestones page and be announced in the release post.
• On the major milestone:
  • The deprecated item has been removed.
  • If the removal of the deprecated item is a breaking change, the merge request is labeled breaking change.

Mentions

• Your stage's stable counterparts have been @mentioned on this issue. For example, Customer Support, Customer Success (Technical Account Manager), Product Marketing Manager.
  • To see who the stable counterparts are for a product team visit product categories
    • If there is no stable counterpart listed for Sales/CS please mention @timtams
    • If there is no stable counterpart listed for Support please mention @gitlab-com/support/managers
    • If there is no stable counterpart listed for Marketing please mention @cfoster3
• Your GPM has been @mentioned so that they are aware of planned deprecations. The goal is to have reviews happen at least two releases before the final removal of the feature or introduction of a breaking change.

Deprecation Milestone

Planned Removal Milestone

Links