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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 - Feature name: Confidential issues re-design
 - Available in: CE
-- Feature weight: main
+- Feature weight: secondary
 - Documentation link: 
 - Feature description, related images, and videos:
 We tweaked the design of confidential issues in this release, making it more obvious when you are participating in one. This is especially helpful with the Service Desk feature recently released, so that you can easily see that you are responding to an external customer / user.
 Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29741
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+- Feature name: Conversational Development Index
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: main
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+For on-prem users, if you activate the usage ping in your instance, you can now see the conversational development index of your instance.
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+Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30469
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+- Feature name: Continued Auto Updates in GitLab
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+With each release, GitLab increasingly updates itself automatically, so that you no longer need to refresh a particular page. In this release, the title and description of merge requests automatically updates. This already happens in issues, as introduced in recent releases.
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+- Feature name: Inline issue description update
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+The issue description serves as the single source of truth when teams collaborate on work and ideas are rapidly flowing in the issue comment thread. With this release, it's much easier to update the description by simply clicking the pencil icon. You do not have to go to a separate web form. Just make the update inline, and click save to persist the changes.
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+- Feature name: Bulk issue update improvements
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+We've made bulk updating issues even simpler and more intuitive in this latest release. We've leveraged the sidebar paradigm that already pervades GitLab. So users will feel right at home using a transient sidebar when updating multiple issues at once.
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+Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28340
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+- Feature name: Issue board todo / closed
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+We recongize that teams use issue boards in a variety of ways. To make it usable for even more teams, we now have a toggle-able to do and close columns.
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+Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23917
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+- Feature name: Single click to activate dropdown in search bar
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link: 
+- Feature description, related images, and videos:
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+Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31757