GitLab 9.3 release post

Review Apps link: https://release-9-3.about.gitlab.com/2017/06/22/gitlab-9-3-released/

Release Post 🎉

• Blog handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/
• Release post handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/

General Contributions

General contributions from the team.

Due date: 06/14 (6th working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release
• Add milestone
• Intro
• MVP
• Add cover image image_title (compressed)
• Upgrade barometer
• Top features
• Primary features
• Secondary features (improvements)
• Performance improvements
• Omnibus improvements
• Deprecations
• Documentation links
• Authorship (author's data)

Review

Content review (PMs)

Due date: 06/19 (2nd working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release review-in-progress
• General review (PM)
  • Check Features' names
  • Check Features' availability (CE, EES, EEP)
  • Check Documentation links
  • Update data/promo.yml
  • Check all images' size - compress whenever > 300KB
  • Meaningful links (SEO)
  • Check links to product/feature webpages
• Copyedit (Sean P, Rebecca, or Marcia)
  • Title
  • Description
  • Grammar, spelling, clearness (body)
• Final review (Job)

Structural Check

Due date: 06/19 (2nd working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release review-structure
• Check frontmatter (entries, syntax)
• Check image_title and twitter_image
• Check image shadow {:.shadow}
• Check images' ALT text
• Videos/iframes wrapped in <figure> tags (responsiveness)
• Add/check <!-- more --> separator
• Add/check cover img reference (at the end of the post)
• Columns (content balance between the columns)
• Badges consistency (applied to all headings)
• Remove any remaining instructions
• Remove HTML comments
• Run deadlink checker
• Update release template with any changes (if necessary)

source/posts/2017-06-22-gitlab-9-3-released.html.md

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-GitLab is a software development platform for modern developers to collaborate on code, unifying issues, code review, CI and CD into a single UI. GitLab gets better every month with a new release. 
+GitLab is an integrated product for the entire software development lifecycle. With each monthly release, we work to bring more aspects of social coding, continuous integration, release automation, and monitoring into a single UI. In GitLab 9.3, we've released new features to help teams improve code quality and reduce cycle time. 
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-GitLab 9.3 introduces [Code Quality](#gitlab-code-quality) reports displayed directly into the Merge Request widget! Look at what has changed and accept it without leaving the page.
+GitLab 9.3 introduces [Code Quality](#gitlab-code-quality) reports displayed directly in the Merge Request widget! Get early insight into how the merge request will affect the health of your code before deciding if you want to accept it.
  
-Modern production-level software are often composed of many different projects, especially those adopting micro-services architecture. Therefore, understanding the relationships between these layers is crucial. With GitLab 9.3, you can see how different projects pipelines are linked together with [Multi-Project Pipelines Graphs](#multi-project-pipeline-graphs), which are automatically included in pipeline graphs when a multi-project pipeline is triggered.
+Modern production-level software is often composed of many different projects, especially those adopting micro-services architecture. Therefore, understanding the relationship between these projects is crucial. With GitLab 9.3, you can see how upstream and downstream project pipelines are linked together with [Multi-Project Pipelines Graphs](#multi-project-pipeline-graphs).
 With GitLab 9.3, you also have an extremely powerful way to compare your usage of the product with other customers using the [Conversational Development Index](#conversational-development-index), so that you move from idea to production not only faster but with a complete panorama over your workflow.