On May 21, 2026, GitLab 19.0 was released with the following features. We’d also like to announce this month’s Notable Contributor : Norman Debald! We are excited to recognize Norman , a Level 3 contributor with more than 40 merged improvements across GitLab since joining in May 2022. Primary features Group-level custom review instructions for GitLab Duo Tier : Premium, Ultimate Offering : GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated Add-ons : GitLab Duo Enterprise Links : Documentation , Related issue In previous versions of GitLab, you could only define custom review instructions for GitLab Duo at the project level. Teams working across many projects in the same group had to duplicate the same instructions in every project. Now you can configure shared custom review instructions for an entire group and its subgroups. Select a project in your group to use as a template.…