Bala Kumar activity https://gitlab.com/bala.kumar 2026-03-18T11:32:50Z tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-18:5217071851 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-18T11:32:50Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (41fb1d52) at 18 Mar 11:32

Remove feature flag advanced_vulnerability_management

... and 260 more commits

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-18:5216949326 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !225024 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-18T11:04:06Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

@maddievn backfill_vulnerability_occurrence_id is dependent on a BBM and it will be skipped till the dependent BBM is completed so it is not sequenced and we require this check.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214161890 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch poc/malware-advisories-schema-589555 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:59:16Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (4ffb296e) at 17 Mar 17:59

Fix: use MalwareAdvisory#to_advisory_data_object instead of inline ...

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214119397 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch duo-edit-20260310-121610 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:46:08Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (8323b64e) at 17 Mar 17:46

Update TODO comment with ADS authentication reference link

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214106133 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch poc/malware-advisories-schema-589555 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:42:22Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (1f022f54) at 17 Mar 17:42

Add malware advisory scanning to SecurityReportBuilder

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214104803 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !225024 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:41:59Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Migration stubbing for the migrations can be done using the spec helper. Using this helper will set the migrations before it to be completed and the assigned migration as false.

  set_elasticsearch_migration_to :my_migration_name, including: false
tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5214070354 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !226660 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T17:32:02Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

TODO:

Consider the checkpoint implementations discussed in #593080 (comment 3150243990)

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5213354951 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !18229 at GitLab.com / Content Sites / handbook 2026-03-17T14:54:30Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Thanks for the clear and detailed breakdown @adil.farrukh. Sounds good 👍🏽

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212791428 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !227644 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T13:06:04Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

advanced vulnerability management docs section includes the list of features/filters it supports. Maintaining a list here will become outdated.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212780353 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T13:04:07Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (a944a1dd) at 17 Mar 13:04

Update tracked_refs_scope description to mention advanced vulnerabi...

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212748067 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:57:20Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (620a224e) at 17 Mar 12:57

Update 'advanced vulnerability management enabled' to 'advanced vul...

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212702548 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:47:15Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (55daeda1) at 17 Mar 12:47

Add changelog trailer

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212658168 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !227644 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:38:28Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

@hmehra Can you review from groupauthorization. There are no logical changes, since the file is touched we need the group's review.

@srushik Can you review the backend and if good pass to @subashis for maintainer review.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212625758 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:30:52Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (58341a62) at 17 Mar 12:30

Remove duplicate history entry in vulnerability report docs

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212611863 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:27:38Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (b5d788ac) at 17 Mar 12:27

Replace 'Elasticsearch configured' with 'advanced search configured...

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212590505 Bala Kumar commented on merge request !227644 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:22:35Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

We are already using ES for aggregations and counts on the new security dashboard without issues and also this API is currently returning full counts when any of the advanced vulnerability management filters are included.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212561226 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:16:07Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (8bdddec2) at 17 Mar 12:16

Update capped argument description in VulnerabilitySeveritiesCoun...

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212530594 Bala Kumar pushed to project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:09:33Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (04ab234d) at 17 Mar 12:09

Revert bulk_es_operation_service changes and remove changelog entry

tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212510682 Bala Kumar opened merge request !227644: Remove feature flag `advanced_vulnerability_management` at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:04:47Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

What does this MR do and why?

Removes the advanced_vulnerability_management feature flag which has been stable since GitLab 18.2 and was default-enabled in the same milestone via !193929 for gitlab.com and Dedicated.

On GitLab self-managed this feature was available from %18.7 and since then we have not received any customer complaints, so we can remove the FF.

Closes #555055

Changes

Feature flag removal

  • Deletes ee/config/feature_flags/beta/advanced_vulnerability_management.yml

Policy cleanup

  • Removes the advanced_vulnerability_management_enabled? method and its Feature.enabled? checks from Vulnerabilities::AdvancedVulnerabilityManagementPolicy
  • The can_access_vulnerability_es_features condition now relies solely on advanced_vulnerability_management_allowed? (the ES/infrastructure check via Search::Elastic::VulnerabilityIndexHelper)

GraphQL description updates

  • Removes all references to the advanced_vulnerability_management feature flag from argument descriptions in:
    • Resolvers::VulnerabilitiesResolver
    • Resolvers::VulnerabilitySeveritiesCountResolver
  • Also removes the stale TODO comment in counts_from_es

Documentation

  • Updates doc/user/application_security/vulnerability_report/_index.md to:
    • Remove the > [!flag] callout from the Advanced vulnerability management section
    • Add "Generally available in GitLab 18.11. Feature flag advanced_vulnerability_management removed." to both history entries (the section header and the inline filter history)

Tests

  • Removes the stub_feature_flags(advanced_vulnerability_management: false) test context from the policy spec since the flag no longer exists

MR acceptance checklist

  • Confirm the feature flag is deleted from all environments before merging
tag:gitlab.com,2026-03-17:5212505939 Bala Kumar pushed new project branch bala-kumar/remove-ff-advanced-vulnerability-management at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-03-17T12:03:43Z bala.kumar Bala Kumar

Bala Kumar (e0631263) at 17 Mar 12:03

Remove feature flag advanced_vulnerability_management