#Release Notes

#Compatibility and support matrix

The following table shows the compatibility and support matrix between the Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1 operator and ACP versions.

#v18.8.2

#Product Name Change

To comply with the GitLab trademark guidelines, the product is renamed from Alauda Build of Gitlab to Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1. The new name appears in the Operator Hub listing (display name, description and icon), the platform catalog entry (now Code Repository Operator), the monitoring dashboards and the product documentation, and user-visible "GitLab" wording in these places is replaced with neutral terms. A trademark notice is added to the operator description and the documentation.

The rename changes what users see, not how the operator is installed or used:

• The operator package name stays gitlab-ce-operator, so the Subscription, the channel and the upgrade path from earlier versions are unchanged.
• The custom resource stays GitlabOfficial (gitlabofficials.operator.alaudadevops.io). Existing instances need no change and keep running after the upgrade.
• The bundled software is still the GitLab community edition, and its own web interface is not rebranded.

When searching the Operator Hub or Marketplace for this operator, look for Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1 instead of the previous name.

#Features and Enhancements

#Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1

Instances can now publish their web entry through Gateway API (HTTPRoute) instead of Ingress, so the operator can be used on clusters that provide only Gateway API. The High Availability and AML templates expose the Gateway settings. See Gateway API Access for new instances, and Migrate an Existing Instance from Ingress to Gateway API for instances that already use Ingress.

The bundled GitLab community edition stays at v18.8.11.

A troubleshooting article is added for PostgreSQL running out of shared memory during database migration. See PostgreSQL Out of Shared Memory During Database Migration. Another one covers clone URLs and links that miss the port when users reach the instance through Ingress or Gateway API on a port other than 80/443, for example a NodePort. See Clone URLs and Links Miss the Port When the Entry Is Not on 80/443.

#Security

The Ruby runtime in the component images carries the backported Onigmo regular expression overflow fixes for CVE-2026-110264. The operator manager and the console plugin images are rebuilt on an updated non-root distroless base, which picks up the fixed tzdata and ca-certificates packages. The console plugin image previously ran as root and now runs as a non-root user.

#Fixed Issues

No issues in this release.

#Known Issues

No issues in this release.

#v18.8.1

#Features and Enhancements

#Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1

The bundled GitLab community edition moves from v18.8.6 to v18.8.11, which carries the upstream patch releases for the 18.8 line.

This version is validated on ACP v4.4 in addition to v4.0 through v4.3.

#Security

Component images are rebuilt on Go 1.26.7 with the gitaly, OpenTelemetry and golang.org/x/sys dependencies advanced past their published advisories, and the go-git modules updated to their fixed releases. The manager image no longer ships the parts of its kodata tree that were never read at runtime, which removes the third-party content scanned along with them.

#Fixed Issues

No issues in this release.

#Known Issues

No issues in this release.

#v18.8.0

#Features and Enhancements

#Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1

The Alauda Toolchain Code Repository E1 operator now integrates the community edition of GitLab version 18.8.6. By this update, this operator enables users to leverage the latest features and improvements from the GitLab community, supporting efficient software development workflows.

To know more about GitLab v18.8 features, please visit GitLab v18.8 Release Blog.

#Fixed Issues

No issues in this release.

#Known Issues

No issues in this release.

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