Lifecycle guide for GitLab from GitLab

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-20

What is GitLab?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and continuous integration and deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.

The entire lifecycle of GitLab

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of GitLab. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

GitLab (GitLab) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product GitLab (GitLab)

What is the GitLab release strategy?

* Backporting bug fixes for only the current stable release at any given time - see patch releases below. * Backporting security fixes to the previous two monthly releases in addition to the current stable release. In some circumstances (outlined in security releases below) we may address a security vulnerability using the patch release process or regular monthly release process, that is, providing an update to the current stable release only, with no backports. See [GitLab release and maintenance policy](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/policy/maintenance.html)

Facts and figures about GitLab

Product

GitLab

Vendor

GitLab

Latest version

18.8.1

Number of releases

180

Number of versions

1928

Number of unstable versions

613

Number of versions affected by CVE

1217

Licence

Commercial

Licence details

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/LICENSE

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab

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