GitLab 18.7 release brings secret validity checks and AI-powered SAST detection

GitLab 18.7 is now available, featuring generally available secret validity checks with expanded integrations for Google Cloud, AWS, and Postman, along with enhanced report filtering and group-level API rollout. The release adds AI-powered SAST False Positive Detection in free beta for Ultimate customers, streamlining vulnerability triage by automatically identifying likely false positives. Improved analytics in the GitLab Duo and SDLC trends dashboard now track feature adoption, code generation, and pipeline performance, plus a new endpoint supports extracting instance-level AI usage data.