GitLab Runner 19.0

We're also releasing GitLab Runner 19.0 today! GitLab Runner is the highly-scalable build agent that runs your CI/CD jobs and sends the results back to a GitLab instance. GitLab Runner works in conjunction with GitLab CI/CD, the open-source continuous integration service included with GitLab.

What's New

• Runner instrumentation: Feature negotiation, OTLP export client, and first job_execution span
• Add configurable prepare stage timeout to runner configuration

Bug Fixes

• Comprehensive fixes for FF_SCRIPTS_TO_STEPS feature flag implementation
• SignatureDoesNotMatch error when downloading S3 cache
• Runtime error when GitLab Runner runs in AWS with S3 cache
• Broken RPM S3 download links for amd64, arm64, arm, and armhf in GitLab Runner 18.9.0 and later
• Negative exit codes are reported incorrectly on Windows
• Incorrect Kubernetes executor service container naming documentation

The list of all changes is in the GitLab Runner CHANGELOG.