It feels to me as if GitLab is pushing (major) security updates very often. Now there are two reasons I can think of this happening:

- They are very open about security vulnerabilities and fix them fast.

- There are some inherent defects in their software that cause these security vulnerabilities to come up so frequently.

I'd like to believe it's the first.

EDIT: formatting.

They are also churning at a pretty insane rate due their release schedule. I did a very basic analysis of their repos at

http://gitsense.github.io/blog/motion-bubble-charts.html

And this is the churn for this month in their master and 8-7-stable branch

http://imgur.com/PfyFrzS

I also included the https://github.com/atom/atom master branch (blue line) for comparison.

In order to get a better picture what what's going on, I'll need to cross reference the churn to security issues, but this isn't something my tool will support until later in the year.