Is linkifying URLs in commit messages / auto-closing issues by URL broken?

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Problem to solve

Recently, our open-source project on gitlab.com noticed that URLs in commit messages no longer get linkified (turned into clickable HTML links) when viewing those commits on GitLab.

We also noticed that issues are no longer auto-closing when including text of the form Fixes <URL> where <URL> is the full address of a GitLab issue.

Does anyone else see this? I tried searching for a bug report on gitlab-org/gitlab but didn’t find one existing (yet). Could this be a bug, or some configuration change?

Example:

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The bottom line used to be a clickable link, and used to close the referenced issue.

Versions

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I’ve also started seeing this on the GNOME gitlab instance, starting around the same time as when this post was opened.

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Opened URLs in commit messages are no longer turned into hyperlinks and auto-linking of commits to issues is broken (#472838) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab since I couldn’t find an existing issue for it.