GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing code faster, but reviews, pipelines, security scans, and deployments remain manual bottlenecks. GitLab wants to close that gap.