GitLab 18.8.11 patch release for Community and Enterprise Editions addresses a regression introduced by the Rails 7.2 upgrade that causes database connections to not be returned to the pool when database load balancing is enabled. This out-of-band patch ensures stability for customers upgrading to the required GitLab 18.8 stop. No security fixes or new migrations are included, and zero-downtime upgrades are supported for multi-node deployments.
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