2026 Sep 14th, Due to a security alert CVE-2026-85706 our Gitlab needs an urgent upgrade. The upgrade path I will follow is 18.8.9->18.8.11->18.11.11->19.2.6->19.3.2. I will apply the update this evening. So please note Gitlab may be unavailable in a window from 20:00 tonight until 08:00 tomorrow. Most likely every update will cause a interrupted service for approx. 15 minutes.
2026 Sept 15th, 01:34, Pre-upgrade checks were not successful, contacted Gitlab support for help. Will be continued later this Tuesday.
2026 Sept 16th, 19:19 I have received instructions from Gitlab on how to repair the database. I will start now and continue over the course of the evening / night repairing and upgrading Gitlab (if all goes well).
2026 Sept 17th, 19:00 this evening and night until 08:00 Gitlab upgrade will be tried again.
2026 Sept 18th, 02:45 Upgrade Gitlab version from 18.8.9->18.11.11->19.2.6->19.3.2 has been completed successfully!