[BlackLotus89]

I called it ads, but it really is more the promotion of enterprise features and yes it is "new" since it only started popping up in the last year or so. It also seems that they are trying to dial it back, but gitlab really started getting aggressive with annoying little things like that and is getting on my nerves from time to time.

On a positive note it got quite a bit more responsive in the last 4 or 5 five years since I started hosting it and even thought we got some regressions and bugs and problems with releases we didn't have any data loss (that we know of) or major security problems. Most of the security problems are in the enterprise functionality anyway (elasticsearch and grafana pop up regulary)