This update of debian-gitlab brings the latest upstream security updates to our users. While building gitaly for this GitLab update, we faced a few challenges due to the proto-gem, which needed to be patched accordingly for successful building. Gitaly is a Git RPC service that handles all the Git calls made by GitLab. Another issue encountered while building GitLab was a corner case with ruby-rack, which required manual installation using gem install instead of relying on the Debian package. Additionally, Debian is currently undergoing a hard freeze.  

Over the past six months, I have been focused on packaging Ruby gems and GitLab dependencies. For this update, I took on the challenge of building GitLab and its major components, including Gitlay and GitLab-shell. We are also preparing GitLab for bookworm, the next release of Debian. Special thanks to Praveen and Bilal for their help and support.

We recommend our users to upgrade to the  latest version.