---
title: "GitLab Patch Release: 12.6.3"
categories: releases
author: Mayra Cabrera
author_gitlab: mayra-cabrera
author_twitter: may_cabrera
description: "GitLab releases 12.6.3"
tags: patch releases, releases
---

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Today we are releasing version 12.6.3 for GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition.

This version resolves a number of regressions and bugs in
[this month's 12.6.0 release](/blog/2019/12/22/gitlab-12-6-released/) and
prior versions.

## GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition

Available in GitLab Core, Starter, Premium, and Ultimate:

- [Disable Prometheus metrics if initialization fails](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22355)
- [Fix bug when exposing non existing artifacts](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22378)
- [Gracefully handle CI lint errors in artifacts section](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22388)
- [Fix GitLab plugins not working without hooks configured](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22409)
- [Upgrade json-jwt to v1.11.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22440)
- [Fixes bug when using slashes on release tags](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22527)
- [Set default reconnect_attempts of Rails.cache to 1](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22704)
- [Remove unused keyword from EKS provision service](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22633/)
- [Reverts "RBAC permissions for getting knative version"](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22560)

Available in GitLab Starter, Premium, and Ultimate:

- [Don't use cached node objects for geo:set_secondary_as_primary task](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22021)
- [Fixes exception caused by Merge Trains](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/22262)

## Upgrade barometer

This version does not include any new migrations, and should not require any
downtime.

Please be aware that by default the Omnibus packages will stop, run migrations,
and start again, no matter how “big” or “small” the upgrade is. This behavior
can be changed by adding a [`/etc/gitlab/skip-auto-reconfigure`](http://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html) file,
which is only used for [updates](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html).

## Updating

To update, check out our [update page](/update/).

## GitLab subscriptions

Access to GitLab Starter, Premium, and Ultimate features is granted by a paid [subscription](/pricing/).

Alternatively, [sign up for GitLab.com](https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in)
to use GitLab's own infrastructure.