- title: "Vulnerability confidence field" announcement_milestone: "15.4" removal_milestone: "16.0" breaking_change: true reporter: matt_wilson stage: govern issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/372332 body: | In GitLab 15.3, [security report schemas below version 15 were deprecated](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/deprecations.html#security-report-schemas-version-14xx). The `confidence` attribute on vulnerability findings exists only in schema versions before `15-0-0`, and therefore is effectively deprecated since GitLab 15.4 supports schema version `15-0-0`. To maintain consistency between the reports and our public APIs, the `confidence` attribute on any vulnerability-related components of our GraphQL API is now deprecated and will be removed in 16.0.