GitLab 18.2 Released – New AI-Powered Workflow and Better Security

GitLab 18.2 Released: Enhanced Security and AI Capabilities

The GitLab 18.2 release, available as of 17 July 2025, delivers a powerful mix of AI-powered efficiency, security enhancements, and workflow improvements to empower modern DevSecOps teams. As a GitLab Select Partner, IDEA GitLab Solutions is ready to help you leverage these features to optimise your software development lifecycle across the UK, Central Europe, and beyond.

Smarter with GitLab Duo: GitLab Duo expands its AI capabilities in this version, offering the ability to chat directly with the GitLab AI assistant, analyse projects more deeply, and provide AI-driven insights to improve productivity and collaboration. Enhanced context awareness now allows the AI assistant to summarise feedback in merge requests, streamlining reviews.

Compliance and Security Focused: GitLab 18.2 continues its commitment to secure coding. It now supports inline vulnerability scanning results in merge requests, lets you assign vulnerabilities within the pipeline editor, and includes enhanced support for IaC security reports with rich details. These features collectively help organisations shift security left without slowing down development.

Modern UI Enhancements: New features bring clarity to your source code management. Highlights include bulk editing of issue titles with single regex rules, the ability to delete tag rules on container registries via API, and updated code suggestions with context using the GitLab Duo suggest feature. These help development teams focus on what matters most—delivering value.

Observability and Performance: GitLab 18.2 refines how you monitor and measure changes. New metrics for deployment frequency and lead time are now part of Value Streams dashboards, ensuring engineering managers have the insights they need to improve performance and throughput.

Managing Your GitLab Environment: Self-managed administrators gain improved control thanks to new filtered search for runners and scheduled deletion for personal access tokens, increasing both manageability and security of your GitLab instance.

Want to make the most of GitLab 18.2? IDEA GitLab Solutions is your dedicated GitLab Select Partner across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, the UK—and remotely in Israel, South Africa and Paraguay. Contact us for expert consulting, support, integration, and GitLab licensing tailored to your region and workflow.

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