As Gitlab deprecates Code Quality, what is everyone shifting to?

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  • Code quality scans are being removed in v19, what options do we have outside of using expensive third party scanners.

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Hi there,

As far as I see, the only deprecated thing is CI/CD template. That doesn’t mean you cannot use any tool that template has been using behind the scenes.

Obviously, it highly depends on the language you’re using, but there are plenty open source tools, and you can also just start from the list that exists in GitLab, since those have exporters for GitLab integration: Code Quality | GitLab Docs

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An unofficial CI/CD component is developed here. There’s still time to investigate and plan, the deprecation of the CodeClimate based CI/CD template and component currently targets 19.0 in May 2026.