Long long ago I was full with excitement and expectation about every Gitlab monthly release just to go over the changelog and read about "the new cool stuff tha

Long long ago I was full with excitement and expectation about every Gitlab monthly release just to go over the changelog and read about "the new cool stuff that I'll get to play with when I upgrade". Those days are gone now, sadly. Gitlab's changelog (the "New release" blog posts, that is) are unreadable. There are just too many features pushed in every release, on top of too many deprecations. Last time I tried to go point-by-point in their monthly release' changelog it took me ~2.5 hours just to carefully understand what was added / removed / deprecated. Upgrading has turned from a joy to a completely fearful experience. And don't get me wrong, the omnibus installer is rock-solid and hasn't failed me once. The fear comes from me wondering if I have missed any of the dozens of things that got deprecated / changed and causing a major downtime in my Gitlab installation. I wish Gitlab could slow down a little bit, but I totally understand this is not possible.