- title: "Deprecate legacy shell escaping and quoting runner shell executor" # (required) Clearly explain the change, or planned change. For example, "The `confidential` field for a `Note` is deprecated" or "CI/CD job names will be limited to 250 characters." announcement_milestone: "15.11" # (required) The milestone when this feature was first announced as deprecated. removal_milestone: "17.0" # (required) The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed breaking_change: false # (required) Change to false if this is not a breaking change. reporter: DarrenEastman # (required) GitLab username of the person reporting the change stage: Verify # (required) String value of the stage that the feature was created in. e.g., Growth issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/406679 # (required) Link to the deprecation issue in GitLab body: | # (required) Do not modify this line, instead modify the lines below. The runner's legacy escape sequence mechanism to handle variable expansion implements a sub-optimal implementation of Ansi-C quoting. This method means that the runner would expand arguments included in double quotes. As of 15.11, we are deprecating the legacy escaping and quoting methods in the runner shell executor. # # OPTIONAL END OF SUPPORT FIELDS # # If an End of Support period applies, the announcement should be shared with GitLab Support # in the `#spt_managers` channel in Slack, and mention `@gitlab-com/support` in this MR. # end_of_support_milestone: # (optional) Use "XX.YY" format. The milestone when support for this feature will end. # # OTHER OPTIONAL FIELDS # tiers: # (optional - may be required in the future) An array of tiers that the feature is available in currently. e.g., [Free, Silver, Gold, Core, Premium, Ultimate] documentation_url: # (optional) This is a link to the current documentation page image_url: # (optional) This is a link to a thumbnail image depicting the feature video_url: # (optional) Use the youtube thumbnail URL with the structure of https://img.youtube.com/vi/UNIQUEID/hqdefault.jpg