Tricentis unveiled its vision for the future of AI-powered quality engineering, a unified AI workspace and agentic ecosystem that brings together Tricentis’ portfolio of AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI platform services, creating a centralized hub for managing quality at the speed and scale of modern innovation.
GitLab announced the launch of GitLab 16, its latest major release.
GitLab 16, includes new DevSecOps platform-wide capabilities available to customers now, and features GitLab plans to release throughout the year.
GitLab 16 brings to market an enterprise-grade, AI-powered DevSecOps platform with capabilities encompassing Code Suggestions, enabling users to write better code faster and more efficiently, as well as security testing and analysis, observability, and proactive vulnerability detection. GitLab’s privacy-first approach ensures enterprises and highly-regulated organizations can remain confident their intellectual property stays within GitLab’s infrastructure. Additional current AI-powered features include Suggested Reviewers, Explain This Code, Explain This Vulnerability, and Value Stream Forecasting and upcoming features will include Refactor This Code and Resolve This Vulnerability.
GitLab empowers teams to balance speed and security by automating software delivery and securing customers’ end-to-end software supply chain. Enterprises can start, scale, and secure their software supply chains, gain full visibility into their threat landscape, and establish policies to aid compliance adherence to deliver secure software faster. New and enhanced security features include enhanced centralized policy management, expanded compliance reports and controls, compliance dashboards, and default SLSA Level 3 attestations.
GitLab Dedicated, which is planned to be generally available this summer, is a single-tenant software as a service (SaaS) solution, providing organizations within highly regulated industries or having stringent compliance requirements the benefits of an enterprise DevSecOps platform with a focus on data residency, isolation, and private networking.
Value Stream Management allows customers to visualize end-to-end DevSecOps workstreams, manage software development processes, and gain insight into how digital transformation and technology investments are delivering value and driving business results. GitLab’s Value Stream Analytics helps organizations visualize and manage the DevSecOps workflow from ideation to delivery, and the Value Stream Dashboard features an enterprise-wide view of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics, cycle times, and other key metrics like critical vulnerabilities and deployment frequency.
Industry News
Kong announced new support to help enterprises adopt and scale MCP and agentic AI development.
Copado unveiled new updates to its Intelligent DevOps Platform for Salesforce, bringing AI-powered automation, Org Intelligence™, and a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration framework that connects enterprise systems and grounds AI agents in live context without silos or duplication.
Xray announced the launch of AI-powered testing capabilities, a new suite of human-in-the-loop intelligence features powered by the Sembi IQ platform.
Redis announced the acquisition of Featureform, a framework for managing, defining, and orchestrating structured data signals.
CleanStart announced the expansion of its Docker Hub community of free vulnerability-free container images, surpassing 50 images, each refreshed daily to give developers access to current container builds.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the graduation of Knative, a serverless, event-driven application layer on top of Kubernetes.
Sonatype announced the launch of Nexus Repository available in the cloud, the fully managed SaaS version of its artifact repository manager.
Spacelift announced Spacelift Intent, a new agentic, open source deployment model that enables the provisioning of cloud infrastructure through natural language without needing to write or maintain HCL.
IBM announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic’s Claude, one of the world’s most powerful family of large language models (LLMs), into IBM’s software portfolio to deliver measurable productivity gains, while building security, governance, and cost controls directly into the lifecycle of software development.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced its intent to launch the React Foundation.
Appvance announced a new feature in its AIQ platform: automatic generation of API test data and scripts directly from OpenAPI specifications using generative AI.
Mirantis announced availability of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) 25.2 that simplifies cloud operations and strengthens support for GPU-intensive AI workloads as well as traditional enterprise applications.
Cycloid released a new model context protocol (MCP) compliant server that can undertake a range of platform actions, allowing users to interact with the MCP using natural language via an LLM (Large Language Model).
The Adaptavist Group announced the acquisition of D|OPS Digital, a DevSecOps consultancy that increases the efficiency and speed of software delivery.