GitLab 19.2 Puts AI Agents to Work on the Security Backlog
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Summary
GitLab 19.2 introduces agentic automation to address the security and review bottleneck created by AI-generated code, with four features now in beta or GA: Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation that iterates on merge requests until pipeline passes, Security Review Flow for logic flaws like broken auth, GitLab Duo CLI with project-aware terminal agents, and Custom Flows in YAML. A study of Maven showed 63% of latest releases have transitive vulnerabilities, and roughly 1 in 8 dependency updates introduces a breaking change.