[aaronmdjones]

The answer to your question is in the first sentence of the article.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Ah, now that I reread it, yes it does say

> While there is still some work we need to do in other parts of the GitLab application before SHA-256 repositories can be used, this milestone is important.

Somehow I managed to skim over and miss that; I was expecting a "what this means for gitlab" or "next steps" section.