Today, we are releasing versions 18.9.8, 18.8.10, 18.7.7, 18.6.8, and 18.5.7 for GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition.

These versions resolve a number of regressions and bugs. This patch release does not include any security fixes.

This patch release addresses a regression introduced in GitLab 18.4 where issues appeared duplicated in Epic swimlane board views — showing under both their direct parent epic and the grandparent epic — even when no filter was applied. This caused boards to become cluttered and made iteration planning unreliable for teams using nested epic hierarchies. The fix restores the intended behavior: issues appear only under their direct parent epic in unfiltered swimlane views, while the full hierarchy is still shown when a user explicitly filters by a specific parent epic. Customers affected by this issue are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version.

GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

18.9.8

• Backport of Fix swimlane problem
• Backport of Fix flaky new_project_spec CI/CD from repo URL test to 18-9
• Backport ‘Pass down DOCKER_VERSION to release env pipeline’ and ‘Remove Helm based release environment QA’ to 18-9-stable-ee
• Backport ‘Bump nginx to version 1.30.1’ to 18-9
• [18.9] Mattermost Security Updates May 13, 2026

18.8.10

• [18.8] Scope start-rails-specs changes rule to MR pipelines
• 18.8 Backport of ‘update zlib to 3.2.3’
• [Backport 18.8]Fix PG::UniqueViolation in project_daily_statistics sync trigger
• Docs backport: Add note about Agent Platform flow configurations not available until 18.11
• Backport of Fix swimlane problem
• Backport ‘Pass GIT_VERSION/DOCKER_VERSION to release env pipeline’ and ‘Remove Helm based release environment QA’ to 18-8-stable-ee
• 18.8 backport of ‘Update rack to 2.2.23’
• Backport: fix: Set sv timeout when restarting Gitaly to 18.8
• [18.8] Remove Mattermost for SLES-12.5

18.7.7

• [18.7] Update dependency oj to v3.16.15
• [18.7] GLQL advanced finder, remove project_ids
• Backport oj and oj-introspect gem updates
• Backport “CI: Update CNG mirror skip job regex”
• Backport of Fix swimlane problem
• Backport ‘Pass GIT_VERSION/DOCKER_VERSION to release env pipeline’ and ‘Remove Helm based release environment QA’ to 18-7-stable-ee
• 18.7 Backport CI: Fix the package install for zypper based distros
• [18.7] Backport Mattermost Security Updates February 23, 2026
• Backport 18-7-stable - check-packages uses Pulp

18.6.8

• Backport of Validate milestone title for group import
• Backport of ‘Remove unused retag-gdk-image CI job’
• Backport: Quarantine flaky github oauth spec
• Backport of Fix swimlane problem
• Backport ‘Pass GIT_VERSION/DOCKER_VERSION to release env pipeline’ and ‘Remove Helm based release environment QA’ to 18-6-stable-ee
• Backport Pulp migration changes to 18.6

18.5.7

• 18.5 Backport: “Add type handling for findings with locations saved as Strings”
• Backport of Fix content and content-type mismatch in files e2e test
• [Backport 18.5] Exclude Git HTTP requests from authenticated web throttle
• Backport of: Handle updated Jira API calls to permit Jira issue imports again
• Backport(18.5): Update dependency @gitlab/web-ide to ^0.0.1-dev-20251210140521
• Backport of ‘Workhorse: use upstream for DWS API requests’
• Backport of flaky import spec quarantine
• Backport of “Removes feature flag enablement for svc accounts”
• Backport 18.5 - Fix searchable dropdown race condition when typing fast
• Backport: Properly quarantine broken ci spec
• Backport of Fix swimlane problem
• Backport ‘Pass GIT_VERSION/DOCKER_VERSION to release env pipeline’ and ‘Remove Helm based release environment QA’ to 18-5-stable-ee
• 18.5 - Remove manual from SLES-12.5-release-pulp job
• Start Pulp FIPS jobs after PC FIPS jobs - 18.5
• Backport Pulp migration changes to 18.5

Important notes on upgrading

This patch includes database migrations that may impact your upgrade process.

Impact on your installation:

• Single-node instances: This patch will cause downtime during the upgrade as migrations must complete before GitLab can start.
• Multi-node instances: With proper zero-downtime upgrade procedures, this patch can be applied without downtime.

Post-deploy migrations

The following version includes post-deploy migrations that can run after the upgrade:

• 18.8.10

To learn more about the impact of upgrades on your installation, see:

• Zero-downtime upgrades for multi-node deployments
• Standard upgrades for single-node installations

Note: GitLab releases have skipped 18.6.7 and 18.5.6. There are no patches with these version numbers.

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