Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

If your CI hammers the GitLab API, put October 19 in the calendar. GitLab.com is moving to subscription-aligned rate limits applied per user and per top-level group, and unauthenticated traffic gets capped at 60 requests per hour per IP. Preview windows on October 7 and 14, 15:00-19:00 UTC let you find out on your own schedule, not mid-release. Cheapest fix: authenticate everything with a job token and handle 429s with backoff.