GitLab Runner - v16.2.0

(2023-07-21)

New features

• Update Runner package repository with OS availability !4215
• Add warning events on failure with k8s executor !4211
• Check forbidden arguments in register command before calling the server !4158
• Ignore forbidden arguments to register if using --registration-token !4157
• Retry all k8s API calls in the runner Kubernetes executor !4143
• Print number of jobs being processed for each new job !4113
• Added zip+zstd and tar+zstd archivers !4107
• Add Azure key vault support !3809 (Zehua Zhang @zhzhang93)

Security fixes

• Do not install python in ubi-fips-base image !4213
• Build git-lfs from source in runner ubi-fips image !4206
• Update github.com/docker/distribution dependency !4205
• Upgrade Go version to 1.20.5 !4179
• Update ubi8-minimal image to version 8.8-860 !4171

Bug fixes

• Downgrade Git from v2.41.0 to v2.40.1 !4236
• Fix misleading error when cache isn't configured !4212
• Fix common build dir implementation in instance executor !4209
• Add documentation to describe runner issue 30769 and its workarounds !4181
• Fix panic for instance executor when instance config option is nil !4173
• Kubernetes executor: prevent background processes from hanging the entire job !4162 (Snaipe @Snaipe)
• Fix docker-autoscaler proxy tunnel for Windows !4161

Maintenance

• Fix old metadata in docs !4240
• Refactor instance executor docs content !4238
• Fix Git LFS not building !4237
• Fix typo in Docker executor !4235 (Raphaël Joie @raphaeljoie)
• Mark integration_k8s as optional temporarily !4233
• Update documentation links !4232
• Update runner reg instructions in macOS setup !4230
• Add links to executor pages !4229
• Remove homebrew from docs to set up runner on MacOS !4227
• Build git-lfs in the base UBI fips image as multiarch !4219
• Add Troubleshooting Case !4208
• Fix TestStackDumping flaky test and incorrect log output !4207
• Update vale rules and exceptions !4204
• Update text in runner registration page !4203
• Add note for limited config template setting support !4202
• Add documentation for SETFCAP configuration !4183
• Fix flaky k8s TestProcessLogs !4177
• Update to include Runner system requirements !4176
• Upgrade github.com/minio/minio-go to v7.0.59 !4174
• Fixed outdated URL and type of variable !4168
• Add Crowdstrike troubleshooting guidance !4160
• Emphasize use of runnerToken in Helm chart !4150
• Mark ConfigExecTimeout as optional !4145 (Nikolay Edigaryev @edigaryev)
• Propagate build context !4128
• Add troubleshooting section about "permission denied" errors due to helper image user mismatch in k8s executor !3990

GitLab Runner distribution

• Fix ECR and DockerHub sync !4180
• Fix windows servercore pwsh version and checksums !4178