GitLab Runner - v14.8.0

(2022-02-20)

New features

• Allow specifying maintenance-note on runner registration !3268
• Support Apple Silicon (darwin/arm64) !2274
• Add variable support for services (Stefano Tenuta @ST-Apps1) !3158

Bug fixes

• Fix artifacts upload redirection support !3308
• Handle redirects on artifact uploads !3303
• Introduce non-reusable docker cache volumes !3269
• Merge the config template before asking the user for configuration !2561 (Matthias Baur @m.baur)
• Make use of build requests/limits for build permission init container !3321

Maintenance

• Add details to docs on CI_SERVER_TLS_CA_FILE !3332 (Ben Bodenmiller @bbodenmiller)
• Ensure shell writers terminate with newline flush !3329
• Upgrade Go to 1.17.7 !3327
• Install supported Go version for Windows prior to testing !3324
• Upgrade minio to v7.0.21 !3323
• Fix milestone ship date error for the idlescalefactor feature - docs !3317
• Remove vendor/ directory !3314
• Divide packages buildling jobs in the pipeline even more !3313
• Use latest docs linting image for Markdown !3312
• Docs: Update shell descriptions to use full names !3310 (Neil Roza @realtime-neil)
• Bump version of Go for project to 1.17.6 !3305
• Fix Azure caching example config !3300 (Stefan Asseg @stefanasseg)
• Encourage use of K8s secrets !3299 (Christian Mäder @nxt.cma)
• Update interactive example that was incorrectly set to non-interactive !3297 (Arran Walker @ajwalker)
• Update support for session_server using helm chart !3296
• Cleanup cache proxy pattern !3294
• Adds details about how to limit the number of VMs when autoscaling !3289
• Update linting configuration from GitLab project !3288
• Replace ruby:2.6 in examples and test cases with ruby:2.7 !3287
• Update runner security docs !3279
• Update Page with more common -machine-machine-options for use with docker and amazon ec2 instances. !3259
• Add information on how to connect to S3 from Runners on Amazon EKS with IAM Role for ServiceAccount !3251
• Add version number to windows helper image tags !3217 (Florian Greinacher @fgreinacher)
• Update docs/executors/shell.md !3208
• To disable wait_for_services_timeout use -1 not 0 !3207
• Add support for extra submodule update flags !3192 (Nejc Habjan @nejc)
• Clarify that listed limitations are specific to Windows !3155
• Ensure proper assumptions !3038 (Deniz Adrian @zined)
• Update the security caveats about the usage of privileged mode !2482
• Add debian/bullseye to packagecloud DEB_PLATFORMS !2940 (James Addison @jayaddison-collabora)

Documentation changes

• Add details on concurrent parameter for docker executor - docs !3286
• Add alpine 3.15 as new runner/helper-image flavor !3281 (Fabio Huser @fh1ch)