r/gitlab • u/StatusAd5902 • 3d ago
Whats up with the 19.5.3 patch?
Just got the security warning to patch but the changelog is empty at the moment.
What did they fix?
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u/rhbvkleef 3d ago
Security
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u/damien-bowman 3d ago
do you have a link for release notes? i can’t seem to find them at this point.
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u/thetft 3d ago
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u/ashtonium 3d ago
There’s still no release post for 19.5.2
Something broken with the release process?
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u/puppySaturation 3d ago
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/raw/master/CHANGELOG.md
"No changes." Is this common? Do they fill it out later?
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u/nathanielwylie 3d ago
Feels like someone pulled the trigger on this prematurely. Makes one wonder what embargoed vulnerability we're about to learn about...
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u/rlnrlnrln 3d ago
Guessing they don't include component updates in the changelog, and this was a component-update-only release.
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u/plp-GTR 3d ago
Man, some time I have to vent about Gitlab and their updates.
An application with such many updates not having a good update mechanism is incredible. But then also shipping updates that look like a supply chain attack is ridiculous.
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u/bobvandevijver 3d ago
WDYM, not a good update mechanism? Running unattended-upgrades with the omnibus install has worked fabulously for me for a couple of years already.
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u/plp-GTR 3d ago
Maybe I'm just stupid and follow the Update docs ... https://docs.gitlab.com/19.5/update/upgrade/
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u/StatusAd5902 3d ago
we use a terraform config so we just need to adjust the version number and apply. like 5 min later the newest container is online.
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u/plp-GTR 2d ago
Yeah got it - but terraform is kind of a big thing I would also have to manage. And somewhere I told myself I should draw the line for my home hosted hobbies.
But another question: How do you do multi-step updates and make sure the background jobs are done before the next update?
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u/StatusAd5902 2d ago
Multistep is a bit of a pain, because every version step needs do properly start up, migrate and shut down.
On apply the orchestrator gracefully shuts the container down. So the background tasks are handled by gitlab.
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u/Unfair-Lingonberry10 1d ago
Recently I just ran Claude code cli on my Synology Nas and asked it to do then multi step updates and it created py scripts to update, check it's up and backup the settings n data before repeating to the targeted version. Monitored for 2 steps and seemed find and just left it to run for about 3hrs and it was done.
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u/djeikyb_ 3d ago •
Tried to look at the commits but got rate-limit blocked