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### Proposal The Slack notifications are missing a release event: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/gitlab_slack_application.html#slack-notifications. This would obviate tools such as this: https://github.com/Julien-R44/gitlab-slack-release-notifier ","title":"Add Release event to Slack notifications","time_estimate":0,"total_time_spent":0,"human_time_estimate":null,"human_total_time_spent":null,"state":"opened","milestone_id":490705,"updated_by_id":480804,"created_at":"2023-02-22T08:15:26Z","updated_at":"2025-09-09T21:03:04Z","milestone":{"id":490705,"iid":14,"group_id":9970,"title":"Backlog","description":"Issues that we want to do but are not planned right now. 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