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.
This improves the order of the transaction list significantly when a large number of packages are being installed at once, since it will use as many runtime dependencies as possible rather than falling back to just build dependencies when there are circular runtime dependencies.