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)

data/release_posts/2017_06_22_gitlab_9_3_released.yml

@@ -169,16 +169,46 @@ features:
   secondary:
     - name: Confidential issues re-design
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
-      documentation_link: ''
-      documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/'
+      documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/issues/confidential_issues.html'
+      documentation_text: "Learn more"
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/confidential_issues_re_design.png'
       description: |
         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.
-        Issue <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29741>
+        can easily see that you are responding to an external customer or user.
+
+    - name: JIRA settings improvements
+      available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
+      documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/jira.html'
+      documentation_text: "Learn more"
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/jira_settings_improvements.gif'
+      description: |
+        For JIRA users, we improved the JIRA integration settings in this release,
+        making it easier to set up and test your connection from your GitLab project
+        to a JIRA server instance. There is now also a separate Web URL field and
+        a JIRA API URL. This is useful for when your JIRA instance is configured
+        such that the JIRA REST API and the JIRA issues location do not share the
+        same URL.
+
+    - name: Snippet descriptions
+      available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
+      documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/snippets.html'
+      documentation_text: "Learn more"
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/snippet_descriptions.png'
+      description: |
+        Snippets now have descriptions, allowing you to collaborate similarly with
+        issues and merge requests.
+    - name: Group label permissions
+      available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
+      documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/permissions.html'
+      documentation_text: "Learn more"
+      image_url: ''
+      description: |
+        The Reporter, Developer, Master, and Owner roles can now create and edit
+        group labels. Previously, only Master and Owner roles could do this. This
+        brings parity with permissions of project labels.
     - name: Performance improvements
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
@@ -224,19 +254,17 @@ features:
         web form. Just make the update inline, and click save to persist the
         changes.
-    - name: Bulk issue update improvements
+    - name: Bulk issue edit re-design
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
-      documentation_link: ''
+      documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/index.html'
       documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/'
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/bulk_issue_edit_re_design.gif'
       description: |
-        We've made bulk updating issues even simpler and more intuitive in
+        We've made bulk editing 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.
-
-        <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28340>
-
+        
     - name: Issue board todo / closed
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: ''
@@ -257,14 +285,6 @@ features:
       description: |
         <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31757>
-    - name: Start a thread from a non-thread comment
-      available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
-      documentation_link: ''
-      documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/'
-      description: |
-        <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30299>
-
     - name: Internationalization of Project Home & Repository File page
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: ''
@@ -363,7 +383,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: ''
       documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: 
+      image_url:
       description: |
         As part of the upcoming GitLab 9.4 release, we will be upgrading the version of nginx included in our Omnibus packages to the new stable release, 1.12. Version 1.12 includes a number of improvements over the previous stable release, including the ability to [filter the log output](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/merge_requests/1585). This will be a transparent upgrade for users, however if you have added [nginx your own customizations](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/nginx.md#inserting-custom-nginx-settings-into-the-gitlab-server-block) to the configuration, please ensure they continue to work with version 1.12.