R2Devops v2.10 Release Notes

We are thrilled to announce R2Devops 2.10! This release brings GitLab Catalog Components support, enhanced merge request compliance controls, and improved dashboard issues management.

📦 GitLab Catalog Components Integration

Track and manage GitLab Catalog Components across your projects:

• Monitor usage across projects
• Identify outdated components
• Identify components included with forbidden versions
• Access GitLab Catalog directly from the Catalog page

🔒 Merge Request Compliance Controls

Enforce organization standards with merge request compliance policies. Configure specific requirements in the Access and Authorization policy to standardize merge request settings across teams.

📊 Advanced Issues Management

Collaborate more effectively on issues:

• Add comments to issues for better team communication
• Bulk update status or add comments to multiple issues
• Assign owners to issues
• Each issue now has a Fix duration and Severity status that can be sorted and filtered
• All filters persist through the page URLs to allow sharing results with your team

🔧 One-Click Auto-Fixes

Quickly resolve issues with one-click auto-fixes, reducing manual intervention and accelerating remediation.

• Available from the Fix button in the issue page
• Covers multiple compliance issues:
  • Branch protection missing
  • Branch protection configuration not compliant
  • Merge request approval rule is below the minimum level of approvals required
  • Merge request approval settings are not compliant
  • Unmasked variable

👤 Automatic Owner Assignment

Streamline issue management with automatic owner assignment.

• Enable this feature from the Settings > Organization page
• Automatically assigns issue owners by searching in member lists of the project or group related to the issue
• Selection logic prioritizes owners first, then maintainers if no owners are found

🔄 Branch Protection Rules

Define protection requirements for different branch patterns in GitLab. Create specific rules based on branch name patterns to enforce consistent security practices.

🐳 Docker Hub Image Trust

Simplify container security with automatic trust for Official Docker Hub images in the CI/CD Container Images policy.

⚙️ Minor Updates

• Improved loading behavior
• AI pipeline analysis explanation for each project inside an AI requests
• Added matching between R2Devops templates and components
• Excluded bot users from issue owner candidates
• Fixed component name display
• Fixed pipeline composition chart
• Improved repository access rights consistency
• Improved performance with cached GitLab requests
• Added centralized HTTP logging to track all requests to GitLab