!reference improvements

• Recursive mix of extends and reference bugfix #767
• Fix coverage percent #747
• Correct CI_REGISTRY and CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE expansion #759
• Assert scripts are array of string #761
• Cast vars to string, before string matching #766
• Add --unset-variable cli option #765
• Add --quiet option #763
• Add --stage cli option #764

Thanks to @FnuGk @udalrich @jg-cantaa @adam-iris @peterbbeu @arg0d for contributing 🥳

Fix CI_PROJECT_DIR bug

• Fix a bug where CI_PROJECT_DIR predefined was set to a very incorrect value.

cache:when and bug fixes

• Support for cache:when #718
• Fix bug when artifacts/cache paths started with / #675
• Fix bug in needs: [{job: <name>}] syntax handling #743
• Fix bug in subprocess output newline splitting #742
• Tolerate needs.pipeline #732
• Fix regexp to extract project information #728
• Fix README.md installation section for "ubuntu 22'like" systems #735 #723

Thanks to @fabianpedd @lflobo @kouk @broneq @FnuGk @trygve55 @sh0shin @detly for contributing 😃

Umask and ListCsv options

• Add option to enable/disable docker executor umask #706
• Add --list-csv option #694
• Fix bug with service alias containing slashes #648
• Fix bug with variables not being used in parsing phase #688
• Fix bug where never jobs obstructed the pipeline #690

Thanks to @alexander-matthiesen @peterbbeu @FnuGk for contributing 😄

Bugfix shared docker filesystem

• Fix a bug, where the rsync command wasn't awaited

Thanks to @aleritty @oll-korrekt @steirico for contributing.

Docker shared filesystem

• Services and container now shares filesystem via docker volume #665
• Don't run manual jobs if past jobs failed #663
• Pull image if podman fails image inspect #657
• Adding docker.io to gitlab-ci-local-util image #654
• Support artifacts:when:always #652
• Add CI_JOB_NAME_SLUG to predefined variables #651

Thanks to @ticapix, @trygve55, @atli-c, @kouk, @alexander-matthiesen and @FnuGk for helping out 😄

Includes rules, and optional needs

• Add DIND example @firecow
• Fix error message with artifacts not being copied, even though only reports were specified @haydenseitz
• Support optional artifacts in needs @kouk
• Add circular !reference detection @firecow
• Fix bug with double quotes and regex in rules. @firecow
• Service container logs into .gitlab-ci-local folder @greenmaid
• Exclude .gitlab-ci-local folder from artifacts/cache rsync commands @firecow
• Add support for rules in includes @gbenguria
• Use Config instead of ContainerConfig in healthcheck routine @peterbbeu
• Mount tmp folder to services, to prevent crash @greenmaid
• Add --clean / --no-cleanup cli option @firecow @moberghammer

Thanks to @atli-c @LauJosefsen @FnuGk and @byrdal for reviewing pull requests

CI_JOB_STATUS, docker-in-docker

• Implement CI_JOB_STATUS
• --mount-cache bugfix, for "funny" job name
• service healtcheck fix, only one port needs to answer correctly now
• docker-in-docker example
• docker service network bug, if after_script was present

Fix performance bottleneck

• Fix performance bottleneck bug in rules/local includes file traversal logic

Rules bugfixes

• Variable expand cache.key
• Allow jobs called pages
• Bugfix paths in docker containers, to better support podman
• Support rules.variables
• Add $HOME/.gitlab-ci-local/.env support
• artifactsToSource global CLI option
• Add global variable description support
• no-shell isolated jobs now copies artifacts to artifacts folder, making a mix og no-shell and image: functional
• Add include wildcard support
• Support rules.exist