= New changes =

 1. From gitlab 14.2.6: postgresql database should be updated to 13 before installing gitlab 14.2. See [[gitlab/postgresql-update]] for steps to upgrading postgresql to 13.
 1. From gitlab 14.0.10: We no longer require a work around to install grpc and google-protobuf gems from rubygems.org, packaged versions now work.
 1. From 2021 July 23: We no longer require the personal repo of gitlab maintainer to install gitlab, all golang packages can now be added to fasttrack.debian.net directly. Thanks to Akshay S Dinesh for fixing this long pending bug (See https://salsa.debian.org/fasttrack-team/support/-/issues/8  for details).
 1. New workaround from gitlab 13.12.3: You need to use google-protobuf from rubygems.org ([[gitlab#gitlab-sidekiq_service_failure_work_around_.28install_google-protobuf_from_rubygems.org.29|see below for details]]).
 1. New from gitlab 13.10.4: Since this version includes gitlab-workhorse golang binary, it was moved to people.debian.org/~praveen/gitaly and should now include contrib section.
 1. New in gitlab 13.6.7-1: New user created after a fresh installation should be approved using `gitlab-rails-console`. See [[gitlab#your_account_is_awaiting_approval_from_your_GitLab_administrator]] for steps to approving users and creating a user with Administrative privileges.
 1. New in gitlab 13.3.8-1: You will need to install grpc gem from rubygems.org `gem install -v 1.30.2 grpc` (more details below). If you run gitaly on a different machine, you will need to do this on that machine as well.
 1. New in gitlab 13.2.6-3: We have switched to puma as application server replacing unicorn. Upstream already made the switch from 12.9 and unicorn support will be dropped in gitlab 14.0. They saw a memory reduction of 37% in gitlab.com after the switch. See more details about this switch at this upstream blog post https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/07/08/migrating-to-puma-on-gitlab/. puma defaults to listening only on unix sockets and if you are running gitaly on a different machine, then you will have to edit `/etc/gitlab/puma.rb` to bind to tcp:// url as well.