Gitlab 12.8 Released with Log Explorer, NuGet, and Compliance
We upgraded to Silver because I liked some of the upcoming features for planning which would alleviate some of the problems we discussed in our teams, and I really pushed for that upgrade. Now, some of theme were post-poned to 12.9, and I can wait, but GitLab really feels like it&#x27;s in a weird state.<p>For example, I can create boards that filter by milestone, but I can&#x27;t create boards that filter by epic. I can&#x27;t even add epics to milestones. So all in all, with the upcoming feature of assigning issues to multiple milestones, milestones seem like a much better way to group issues than epics.<p>In addition, with the upcoming feature &quot;Show milestones in roadmap&quot;, I barely see any need for Epics, since they integrate so badly with the rest of the planning tools gitlab provides, and I wonder why epics are a thing at all (and why gitlab doesn&#x27;t just drop epics in favor of a milestone-type called &#x27;epic&#x27;)<p>Another feature which I sorely miss, which are admittedly difficult to implement, are swimlanes&#x2F;rows in issue boards. They would provide an entirely new dimension of possibilities. Relevant Epic in gitlab org: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;328" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;-&#x2F;epics&#x2F;328</a><p>All in all, I love using Gitlab, but it also frustrates me greatly, since my main use is for its VCS and planning capabilites, and the latter is in a weird state, which leaves me with no choice but to wait.