GitLab 16.9 release notes

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  "url": "https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/16/gitlab-16-9-released/",
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    "title": "GitLab 16.9 release notes",
    "summary": "GitLab 16.9 updates more than 40 default SAST rules to improve detection results and includes DAST analyzer bug fixes. The SAST update is automatically applied to GitLab 16.0 or newer unless analyzers are pinned.",
    "evidence": "We’ve updated more than 40 default GitLab SAST rules to: Increase true-positive results (correctly identified vulnerabilities) and reduce false-negative results (incorrectly identified vulnerabilities) by updating the detection logic rules for C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python.",
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          "evidence": "This update is automatically applied on GitLab 16.0 or newer unless you’ve pinned SAST analyzers to a specific version."
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            "value": "unless you’ve pinned SAST analyzers to a specific version",
            "evidence": "This update is automatically applied on GitLab 16.0 or newer unless you’ve pinned SAST analyzers to a specific version."
          }
        ],
        "fixed_versions": [
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            "value": "GitLab 16.9",
            "evidence": "On February 15, 2024, GitLab 16.9 was released with the following features."
          }
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          }
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          "evidence": "The rule changes are included in updated versions of the Semgrep-based GitLab SAST analyzer."
        },
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          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "fixed_cves": [],
    "related_cves": [],
    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "official-gitlab-releases",
  "document_id": 23720,
  "published_at": "2024-02-15T00:00:00+00:00"
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