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Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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I think you must be logged in to see the complete UI (with search field)

Indeed. The search field is currently only displayed for users that have logged in.

Thanks, that doesn't make sense so I made an issue to remedy it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13676

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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We're super excited with GitLab 8.5. It's much faster, no matter the size of your instance (but especially for larger instances). The Todos, ability to revert commits and CNAME support for Pages, are things that have been much requested and we're happy to have now. As always, we're here if anyone has any questions about anything.

Hi Job, does this mean it is also faster in low memory environments like 512M? ToDo integration is a great feature!

No, unfortunately not. We recommend 2GB of memory to run GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...

If 512MB is a requirement for you please consider using Gogs.

Glad you like the Todos feature!

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Very easy upgrade from 8.4.3 to 8.5 on Ubuntu using the omnibus packages. I did have to install bundler in my system Ruby (I have RVM on the system; the install scripts executed via apt-get apparently doesn't care), but that was the only hiccup.

You should not have to install bundler on your system to upgrade to 8.5. If someone else encounters this please open an issue so we can diagnose the problem.

Here's my console buffer from the installation: https://gist.github.com/cheald/6002dbe275a379a5f85a

tl;dr: apt-get install gitlab-ce failed with "bundler not found". rvm use system; gem install bundler, apt-get install gitlab-ce and it worked fine.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Thanks, Looking forward to it. otherwise, congrats on another release!

Thanks! Consensus seems to be we can ship it somewhere this week.

I've been keeping an eye on that issue thread throughout the morning and although it doesn't seem appropriate for me to make a comment over there just to say this, I wanted to communicate it somewhere: the gitlab team is really impressing me in terms of responsiveness and flexibility. I really hope to see you keep that culture as you continue to grow and succeed. It doesn't go unnoticed!

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Their performance graph shows response timings up to 25 seconds [1]. GitHub's mean web response time goes up to 200 milliseconds. The difference is two orders of magnitude. Is GitLab really that much slower?! [1] https://about.gitlab.com/images/8_5/issue_timings.png [2] https://status.github.com/

That's the 95th percentile, not the mean. This means that 95% of all transactions completed _within_ the time, with only 5% exceeding it. Right now our 95th percentile hovers between 1.5 and 2 seconds, the mean hovers between 500 and 700 ms.

GitHub's 98th percentile is still just 414ms though. So you still have a lot of catching up to do.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Impressive release! Is there a guide on migrating from install from source to using omnibus? We currently upgrade from source but would like to move to omnibus.

Warning as someone who just did that. MySQL is EE only on Omnibus. I switched from Source (MySQL) to Omnibus only to find that MySQL was EE only. So I had to go back to Source.

You are correct, we only ship our Omnibus packages with PostgreSQL. And the ability to use an external MySQL server is only in the Enterprise Edition.

Switching away from MySQL might not be an option for you but documentation on how to convert from MySQL to PostgreSQL can be found on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc...

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Much faster! I notice it's rendering large source files instead of displaying them as binary now, so great! One issue: I'm getting a really weird animation/hover over effect on the Gitlab icon in the upper left corner. Is that meant to happen? Is there a way to disable this. Other than that, everyone should upgrade to this version.

Glad to hear that the rendering got better for you.

That animation is our loading indicator introduced in GitLab 8.4. There is no way to disable it. However, it seems to have a lot of fans https://twitter.com/jerbob92/status/692089402030460929

I hope it is less weird now that you know what it is for.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Thanks! Consensus seems to be we can ship it somewhere this week.

I've been keeping an eye on that issue thread throughout the morning and although it doesn't seem appropriate for me to make a comment over there just to say this, I wanted to communicate it somewhere: the gitlab team is really impressing me in terms of responsiveness and flexibility. I really hope to see you keep that culture as you continue to grow and succeed. It doesn't go unnoticed!

Thanks, glad to hear that. We're doing everything we can to keep and improve upon that culture. Being remote first and having a public issue tracker certainly helps, less difference between a comment of a co-worker and of a user.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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You should not have to install bundler on your system to upgrade to 8.5. If someone else encounters this please open an issue so we can diagnose the problem.

Here's my console buffer from the installation: https://gist.github.com/cheald/6002dbe275a379a5f85a tl;dr: apt-get install gitlab-ce failed with "bundler not found". rvm use system; gem install bundler, apt-get install gitlab-ce and it worked fine.

Thanks, we'll look into this.
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