{"id":5575,"date":"2021-01-04T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:17:16","slug":"what-new-gitlab-features-2020-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/what-new-gitlab-features-2020-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"New GitLab features for 2020 – Retrospective and Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year is a great time to summarize the past year! So let\u2019s see what happened with GitLab product.<\/p>\n

This time I decided to focus on new features that were released in 2020 and to represent some interesting data and insights as charts. <\/span><\/p>\n

As providers of DevOps and ALM solutions (and partners of GitLab company for 4+ years and using GitLab ourselves for 5+ years) we work intensively with customers using GitLab or those who are looking for solutions that can be provided by tools like GitLab.<\/span><\/p>\n

The data we’re based on is open source and available online so we used GitLab API and GitLab CI to generate some interesting charts (and we even used GitLab runners to process some data).<\/span><\/p>\n

The data below is based on the last 12 monthly releases, i.e. 12.7 (January 2020) to 13.7 (December 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n

Total: 711 new features were released in that period.<\/b><\/p>\n

The most 10 popular features created over the past year:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Release<\/td>\nFeature Name<\/td>\n\u00a0Thumbs Up<\/td>\n\u00a0User Notes<\/td>\n\u00a0Hearts<\/td>\n\u00a0Available In<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.05<\/td>\nGroup wikis<\/td>\n687<\/td>\n174<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nPremium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.04<\/td>\nLock the latest job artifact to prevent deletion<\/td>\n359<\/td>\n204<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.03<\/td>\nSquash Commits Options<\/td>\n314<\/td>\n138<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.07<\/td>\nPipeline Resource Groups<\/td>\n299<\/td>\n257<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.05<\/td>\nSnippets with multiple files<\/td>\n288<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.00<\/td>\nInherit environment variables from other jobs<\/td>\n280<\/td>\n122<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.00<\/td>\nVersioned Snippets<\/td>\n251<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.08<\/td>\nAutomatically bring in artifacts from cross-project jobs<\/td>\n217<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nPremium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.09<\/td>\nView history of changes to issue; merge request and epic descriptions<\/td>\n204<\/td>\n230<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nStarter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.09<\/td>\nGroup Deploy Tokens<\/td>\n184<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nCore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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How did we measure it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve used a sorted and weighted score of upvotes, user notes, and hearts for all new 711 issues. The 10 above are the top ten.<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n