Newly arrived GitLab 14.8 updates the software delivery platform with hardware-backed authentication and security approval policies. Announced February 22, GitLab 14.8 has new SSH key types supporting OpenSSH 8.2, with backing for FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators with ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk key types. With this support, users can leverage hardware-backed SSH authentication. GitLab also now supports flexible