GitLab change history: Delayed job completion

GitLab reported a major CI/CD degradation from 2026-10-08 15:59 UTC to 2026-10-08 18:33 UTC, lasting 2 h 34 min. CI jobs remained running after success, delaying pipeline progression; users could also encounter timeouts or failures and were advised to retry affected jobs. Services were stable at resolution; no cause or specific fix was stated.