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And, in the spirit of transparency, a [GitLab core value](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency), we like to share our rationale for typeface changes. This blog introduces you to the new default typefaces in GitLab – GitLab Sans (Inter) and JetBrains Mono – and explores in detail why we chose them and how they will improve the user experience.\n\n## Introducing GitLab Sans and JetBrains Mono\n\nIn the recent [GitLab rebrand](/blog/devops-is-at-the-center-of-gitlab/), [Inter](https://rsms.me/inter/) was selected as the primary sans-serif typeface and we've adapted it for use in the GitLab user interface (UI) to have more continuity between the brand and product experience. It will be available for users in Release 15.8. Specifically for the UI, we've enabled disambiguation features (increased distinction between some characters) by default. Because of this change, we're including it under the name GitLab Sans in the open source package of GitLab. To complement GitLab Sans with a monospace typeface, we've chosen another open source option: [JetBrains Mono](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/).\n\nThe GitLab UI has historically relied on system fonts, like San Francisco on macOS and Segoe UI on Microsoft Windows. There are, however, limitations to using these that we'll cover in a moment.\n\n![GitLab Sans (Inter) and JetBrains Mono typefaces](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/introducing-new-typefaces/gitlab-sans-jetbrainsmono.png){: .center}\nGitLab Sans (Inter) and JetBrains Mono sample\n\n\n## Why the change?\n\nSo we've already mentioned brand continuity as a driving reason for the change, but let's step back a bit. During the rebrand process, Inter was one of many typefaces considered because it was open source and designed for UI. Choosing a font primarily designed for digital output might seem like an odd choice for branding and print application, but the primary extension and experience is the product itself. GitLab is digital-first, and the brand reflects it. Inter had all of the qualities and features we knew we could leverage to enhance and realize our vision for the UI.\n\nWe realize there's a lot of subjectivity wrapped up in a change like this. Visual updates are, well, highly visible, but we believe they have to be rooted in objective considerations that lead to adding real value, so here are a few other aspects we evaluated and will cover in greater detail:\n\n- **Less is more** - How can we limit certain choices in ways that enable more meaningful ones?\n- **Consistency** - Can we create more harmony within a single view, streamline the experience across platforms, and reinforce the brand?\n- **Enhance the content** - Can content be more readable, discernable, and generally consumable?\n\n### Less is more\n\nTypography is a crucial part of the GitLab UI, if not _the_ most crucial part. As we continue to refine and beautify the experience, it's apparent that more control over the typography would yield a better experience not only for our users, but also the ones creating the experiences — our internal product, design, and development teams. System fonts have led to everything from false positive bug reports to visual regression errors on both sides. More choice — especially when systems are choosing — doesn't always lead to better experiences.\n\nWith multiple system fonts in play, we choose compromises, not enhancements. For example, asking what alignment works best for _most_ system fonts in a button instead of what alignment works best for _this_ font. Or, what weight should we use when not all system fonts have the same available options instead of what weight creates the right hierarchy for this content. With fewer typeface options we have more ability to make meaningful decisions about disambiguation, visual weight, language support, hierarchy, type scales, and so much more.\n\n### Consistency\n\nAn experience has multiple facets: a single view or screen, a flow between multiple views, a transition from reading to editing, or a switch from settings to documentation. Consistency should happen not only within each of these, but also across them. Consistency in a single view means hierarchy, balance, and harmony. In a flow, consistency establishes patterns and understanding. When contexts change, consistency brings familiarity and enhances trust. Typography is an important aspect of all of these.\n\nInconsistencies add up and lead to design, tech, and experience debt. There are known consistency problems with system fonts, for example, in Firefox on macOS, San Francisco has tighter letter spacing than on Chrome or Safari. This leads to different experiences across browsers, and this is just for one system font.\n\n![Comparing system fonts to show varied x-height](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/introducing-new-typefaces/compare-x-height.png){: .center}\nVaried x-heights of system fonts\n\n\nOptically, system fonts are noticeably different in size. However, the difference is more visible when you compare the length of each due to character width, weight, and kerning (the space between characters). This impacts everything from truncation and component width, to wrapping and legibility.\n\n![Comparing system fonts to show varied width](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/introducing-new-typefaces/compare-width.png){: .center}\nVaried width of system fonts\n\n\nMenlo has been used as our monospaced typeface. It appears bigger than many sans-serif typefaces when using the same font size. To counter that issue, we had downscaled its size by one pixel to make it appear as the same optical size. This added unnecessary bloat to styles and is also not foolproof since sans-serif system fonts also vary.\n\nInter and JetBrains Mono have nearly identical x-height, which allows us to remove all of the downscaling overrides and more generally handle text styles consistently. While both typefaces have specific use cases, they’re almost always present next to each other in the UI, making cohesiveness that much more important.\n\n![GitLab Sans (Inter) and JetBrains Mono x-height comparison](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/introducing-new-typefaces/gitlab-sans-jetbrainsmono-x-height.png){: .center}\nGitLab Sans and JetBrains Mono with similar x-height\n\n\nBy reducing our typeface options, we're working towards consistency in so many ways we haven't before, everything from brand to product, product to documentation, and browser to browser. Consistency is not the same as uniformity though, and nor should it inhibit preference, but by creating a baseline those things can have room for more thoughtful approaches in the future too.\n\n### Enhance the content\n\nAs mentioned earlier, typography is a crucial part of the UI, and arguably most of the content is in text form. Whether communication or code, status or state, the typeface is the delivery vehicle for the content. GitLab Sans and JetBrains Mono give us better control over readability.\n\nBoth typefaces include variable webfont and contextual features, which means that the font weight and other settings can be finely tuned to enhance visual weight, hierarchy, and contextual alternates. For GitLab Sans, we've enabled the disambiguation feature set to ensure readability is a top priority. Disambiguation is used to avoid common character confusion. For example, by using the feature set [cv05](https://rsms.me/inter/lab/?feat-cv05=1) (lowercase L with tail for disambiguation), you can easily distinguish between the capital “I” and the lowercase “L” (see image below). We had discussed using either [ss04](https://rsms.me/inter/lab/?feat-ss04=1) (disambiguation without slash zero) or cv05 and decided to go with the latter for a simple, modern look.\n\n![Inter Typface character disambiguation](https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/introducing-new-typefaces/inter-disambiguation.png){: .center}\nInter disambiguation options from left to right: Default, without slashed zero (ss04), lowercase L with tail (cv05)\n\n\nGitLab uses a condensed UI, meaning more content in less space and typically at smaller sizes. Inter is popular for a reason, more likely dozens, but the most applicable to GitLab is that it’s designed specifically for UI. On the [website](https://rsms.me/inter/) it states, “Inter is a typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens.” With a tall x-height, contextual alternates, tabular numbers, and more, Inter enables us to actually make more meaningful typography decisions that impact readability.\n\nSimilarly, JetBrains Mono has a tall x-height, which increases readability at smaller sizes, and it has a normal character width to keep more characters on a single line which limits wrapping. During our exploration, we found that typefaces like Menlo, Fira Code, Source Code, or Noto Sans Mono either have shorter x-heights or wider characters that lead to size or spacing compromises.\n\nWith these typefaces in place we've started a deep dive into our type scales and updating design resources in Figma too. The upcoming work on type scales, in particular, will provide more consistency and refinement.\n\n## Other considerations\n\nGitLab is an [open core](/blog/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/) product, which means the core of our product is open source, so selecting typefaces that are also open source was a crucial part of the decision.\n\nAnytime you opt to distribute your own resources versus using what's already available to the system the question of performance comes up. And while it's true that we're increasing the payload by a few kilobytes, we're able to rely on modern CSS and browser handling for delivery and caching. At the same time, we're reducing the CSS by removing styles that have been added to counter aforementioned compromises. This is something we'll continue to evaluate and optimize.\n\nAnd speaking of distribution, we're [packaging the fonts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gitlab/fonts) to make it easier for all of our properties to consume. 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If you’re a developer or engineering leader, this is the program that can empower the partners who help teams like yours scale and move faster.*\n\nMany organizations know they need a modern DevSecOps platform. What they often don't have is the bandwidth to deploy, manage, and continuously optimize one while shipping software at the pace the business demands. That's a real opportunity for MSPs, and now GitLab has a defined program to support them.\n\nWe're excited to introduce the **GitLab MSP Partner Program**, a new global program that enables qualified MSPs to deliver GitLab as a fully managed service to their customers.\n\n## Why this matters for partners and customers\n\nFor the first time, GitLab has a formally defined, globally available program built specifically for MSPs. This means clear requirements, structured enablement, dedicated support, and real financial benefits, so partners can confidently invest in building a GitLab managed services practice.\n\nThe timing is right. Organizations are accelerating their DevSecOps journeys, but many are navigating complex migrations, sprawling toolchains, and growing security requirements on top of their core work of building and shipping software.\n\nGitLab MSP partners handle the operational side of running the platform, including deployment, migration, administration, and ongoing support, so development teams can stay focused on what they do best.\n\n## What MSP partners get\n\n**Financial benefits**: MSP partners earn GitLab partner margins plus an additional MSP premium on all transactions, new business, and renewals. You also retain 100% of the service fees you charge customers for deployment, migration, training, enablement, and strategic consulting. That's multiple recurring revenue streams built around a single platform.\n\n**Enablement and education**: Partners have access to quarterly technical bootcamps covering version updates, new features, best practices, ongoing roadmap updates, and peer sharing. Recommended cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Associate, GCP Associate Cloud Engineer) round out the technical foundation.\n\n**Go-to-market support**: MSPs receive a GitLab Certified MSP Partner badge, co-brandable assets, eligibility for joint customer case studies, a Partner Locator listing, and access to Marketing Development Funds (MDF) for qualified demand generation activities.\n\n## What customers can expect\n\nCustomers working with a GitLab MSP partner get a structured, managed DevSecOps experience, documented and repeatable implementation methodologies, regular business reviews, and support with clearly defined response and escalation paths.\n\nThe result: Development teams can stay focused on building great software while their MSP partner focuses on running and optimizing the platform.\n\n## A new opportunity around AI\n\nOrganizations are increasingly looking to safely introduce AI into their software development workflows, and even experienced teams can benefit from a structured approach to rolling it out at scale. GitLab MSP partners are well-positioned to guide customers through GitLab Duo Agent Platform as part of a broader managed services offering.\n\nBy combining GitLab's DevSecOps platform with MSP-delivered operational expertise, customers can experiment with AI-assisted workflows in a governed environment, meet data residency and compliance requirements, and scale AI adoption across teams without overburdening internal resources.\n\n## Is this right for your business?\n\nThe GitLab MSP Partner Program is a strong fit if you:\n\n* Already deliver managed services in cloud, infrastructure, or application operations  \n* Want to add high-value DevSecOps to your portfolio  \n* Have or want to build technical talent interested in modern development platforms  \n* Prefer long-term customer relationships over one-time transactions\n\nIf you're already a GitLab Select and Professional Services Partner, the MSP program gives you a structured way to turn your existing expertise into a repeatable managed offering.\n\n## Getting started\n\nThe program launches with the **Certified MSP Partner** designation. There's no minimum ARR or customer count required to join. Here's how the path looks:\n\n1. **Confirm fit** - Verify you meet the business and technical requirements outlined in the [handbook page](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/resellers/channel-program-guide/#the-gitlab-managed-service-provider-msp-partner-program).  \n2. **Apply via the GitLab Partner Portal** - Submit your application with business and technical documentation.  \n3. **Complete 90-day onboarding** - A structured onboarding journey covers contracts, technical enablement, sales training, and your first customer engagement.  \n4. **Launch your managed offering** - Package your services, set your SLAs, and begin engaging customers.\n\nCompleted applications are reviewed within approximately three business days.\n\n> Interested in building a GitLab managed services practice? New partners can apply [to become a GitLab Partner](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/). Existing partners can reach out to your GitLab representative to learn more about the program and tell us about the solutions you're currently offering customers through your MSP practice!\n",[562,10,282],{"featured":13,"template":14,"slug":735},"introducing-the-gitlab-managed-service-provider-msp-partner-program",{"content":737,"config":748},{"title":738,"authors":739,"date":743,"body":744,"category":10,"tags":745,"description":746,"heroImage":747},"DevSecOps-as-a-Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by Data Intensity",[740,741,729,742],"Biju Thomas","Matt Genelin","Ryan Palmaro","2026-02-10","At GitLab, we know that many organizations choose GitLab Self-Managed for the control, customization, and security it provides. However, managing underlying infrastructure can be a significant operational challenge — especially for teams who want to focus on delivering software, not maintaining platforms.\n\nThat's why we're excited to work with [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/) and [Data Intensity](https://www.dataintensity.com/services/security-services/devsecops/), a trusted Oracle managed services provider, to offer a new managed service option, DevSecOps-as-a-Service, that brings together the best of both worlds: the control of GitLab Self-Managed with the operational ease of a fully managed service.\n\n## Why GitLab Self-Managed?\n\nGitLab Self-Managed gives you complete ownership of your DevSecOps platform. You control where your data lives, how your instance is configured, and can customize it to meet specific compliance, security, or operational requirements. This level of control is essential for organizations with strict regulatory requirements, data residency needs, or specific integration must-haves.\n\nThe challenge for some customers running on GitLab Self-Managed means managing servers, handling upgrades, ensuring high availability, and implementing disaster recovery. All require specialized expertise and dedicated resources.\n\n## A managed path to GitLab Self-Managed\n\nData Intensity's DevSecOps-as-a-Service on OCI removes these operational burdens while preserving the control benefits of GitLab Self-Managed. Instead of building and maintaining infrastructure yourself, you get a standalone GitLab instance managed by Data Intensity's team of experts, running on OCI's high-performance cloud infrastructure.\n\nHere's what's included:\n\n* Standalone GitLab instance on OCI infrastructure\n* 24x7 monitoring, alarming, and support\n* Quarterly patching scheduled during your chosen maintenance windows\n* Automated backups and disaster recovery protection\n\n## Scaling with your organization\n\nData Intensity’s managed service is designed to grow with your team, offering tiered architectures to match your specific user capacity and recovery requirements:\n\n| **Feature**        | **Standard**    | **Premier**     | **Premier +**   |\n|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|\n| **User Capacity**  | Up to 1,000     | Up to 2,000     | Up to 3,000     |\n| **Performance**    | 20 requests/sec | 40 requests/sec | 60 requests/sec |\n| **Availability**   | 99.9%           | 99.95%          | 99.99%          |\n| **Recovery (RTO)** | 48 hours        | 8 hours         | 4 hours         |\n\nFor more information, visit Data Intensity’s website to learn more about [DevSecOps-as-a-Service](https://www.dataintensity.com/services/security-services/devsecops/).\n\n## Why OCI for GitLab?\nOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a robust foundation for running GitLab Self-Managed, offering a secure, high-performance environment at a significantly lower cost than other hyperscalers. Organizations migrating workloads to OCI commonly realize infrastructure cost reductions of 40-50%, making it easier to fund and scale deployments.\n\nOCI supports a wide range of deployment models, from public cloud regions to specialized environments such as Government and EU Sovereign Clouds, as well as dedicated infrastructure deployed behind your firewall. These options come with consistent pricing, tooling, and operational experience, enabling teams to standardize GitLab deployments across regulated, hybrid, and global environments.\n\nThe combination of GitLab's comprehensive DevSecOps platform, OCI's high-performance infrastructure, and Data Intensity's managed services expertise provides a turnkey solution that lets your teams focus on what matters: building great software.\n\n## Is this right for your organization?\nConsider Data Intensity's DevSecOps-as-a-Service if you:\n* Want GitLab Self-Managed but need to minimize operational overhead\n* Require specific compliance, security, or data residency requirements\n* Need guaranteed SLAs and professional disaster recovery capabilities\n* Prefer predictable costs and expert management over building in-house infrastructure expertise\n* Are already using or planning to use OCI for your cloud infrastructure\n* Prioritize flexibility and control\n* Want a dedicated instance that’s managed externally but offers the control of a self-managed environment\n\n## Getting started\nOrganizations interested in running GitLab Self-Managed on OCI through Data Intensity's DevSecOps-as-a-Service can contact Data Intensity via the [Data Intensity website](https://www.dataintensity.com/services/security-services/devsecops/) to discuss specific requirements and begin deployment planning.\n\nModernizing your DevSecOps doesn't have to be complex. Data Intensity provides optional migration of code repositories and customizations to ensure a smooth transition to OCI.\n\nAs GitLab continues expanding our partner ecosystem, solutions like this demonstrate our commitment to giving organizations choice in how they deploy and manage GitLab — whether that's SaaS, self-managed, or managed services through trusted partners.",[282,530],"Run GitLab Self-Managed with minimal overhead. 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This major step marks our first move toward making GitLab's extensive documentation accessible to our users worldwide.\n\n![Japanese GitLab Docs site](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1765299500/hya4bog8gllk1kimduac.png)\n\n## The unique challenge of the Japanese market\n\nJapan represents one of the world's largest economies and is a critical market for enterprise software. However, it also presents a distinctive challenge: despite its technological sophistication and massive developer community, English proficiency remains a significant barrier for many users.\n\nJapan's developers and DevSecOps teams often face challenges with English-only documentation, [as indicated by the country's ranking on the EF English Proficiency Index](https://www.ef.edu/epi/regions/asia/japan/). This language barrier can significantly impact the speed of learning and ultimately influence the decision to evaluate, adopt, and champion a platform within Japanese organizations.\n\nWe've heard directly from our Japanese customers and partners that English-only documentation wasn't merely an inconvenience, it was a barrier preventing them from getting the most out of GitLab. The impact rippled through every stage of the user journey: From initial evaluation where teams struggled to assess GitLab's capabilities, to daily operations where finding solutions took longer than necessary, to staying current with new features and best practices.\n\nIn a market as competitive and mature as in Japan, this language barrier directly affected GitLab's market penetration. When Japanese companies evaluate enterprise software, the availability of comprehensive Japanese documentation signals long-term commitment to the market. It demonstrates that a provider isn't just making a token effort, but is genuinely invested in supporting Japanese users throughout their entire journey.\n\nTo address this challenge and demonstrate our commitment to the Japanese market, we built localization infrastructure from the ground up, integrating with how we create and maintain documentation at GitLab.\n\n## Localization built on docs-as-code principles\n\nGitLab's documentation is treated like any other code contribution, residing alongside product code in GitLab projects and managed via merge requests. This system ensures documentation is version-controlled, collaboratively reviewed, and automatically tested through CI/CD pipelines, which includes checks for issues with language, formatting, and links. Both the English and Japanese documentation sites are dynamically generated using the Hugo static site generator and deployed after merging changes, guaranteeing users always access the latest information.\n\nThe documentation is extensive and comprehensive, drawing content from various source projects, including GitLab, GitLab Runner, Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Charts, GitLab Operator, and GitLab CLI (glab) ([see architecture for details](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/technical-writing/docs-gitlab-com/-/blob/main/doc/architecture.md)). This sheer scale and rapid update velocity presented a significant localization challenge. To keep pace with the continuous evolution of these source English projects, we had to design a localization infrastructure for our GitLab product documentation that could handle these unique complexities and provide an enterprise-grade solution for a fully localized site, all while adhering to our CI/CD pipeline requirements.\n\n## How we localized GitLab Documentation\n\nFor our initial Japanese localization, we adopted a strategy of integrating new folders within our existing English content structure. Specifically, we introduced `doc-locale/ja-jp` folders within each project that stores source Markdown files. This architecture [keeps the translations right alongside their source content](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/master/doc-locale/ja-jp) while maintaining a clear organizational separation. Not only that, but it also enables us to apply the same robust version control, established review and collaboration workflows, and even some of the automated quality checks used for our English documentation to the translated content.  \n\nThis [internationalization infrastructure built for Japanese documentation](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/localization/tech_docs_localization/#multilingual-hugo-docs-implementation) provides a scalable foundation for future language expansion. With the architecture, tooling, and processes now in place, we are well-positioned to support additional languages as we continue our commitment to making GitLab accessible to users worldwide.\n\n## An AI-assisted  translation workflow that balances speed and quality\n\nWe adopted a strategic, phased approach to processing the content through translation, prioritizing pages based on their English-language page views. The highest-traffic pages underwent AI translation first, followed by comprehensive human linguistic review, and we intentionally paused subsequent phases until these priority pages completed the full human review cycle. This deliberate sequencing allowed us to build a robust, curated translation memory and termbase from our most important content. These linguistic assets accelerated and improved quality across all remaining content. In parallel, this initial phase served as our testing ground on the technical infrastructure on the GitLab side. We used it to iterate and reinforce our CI/CD pipelines, refine our translation and post-editing AI scripts, and solidify our Translation MR review process.\n\nTo provide our international users with the most current documentation while guaranteeing high-quality translated content, [we implemented an AI-assisted translation workflow with human post-editing](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/localization/tech_docs_localization/#translation-workflow), consisting of:\n\n* Phase 1: AI-powered translation. We built a custom AI translation system enriched with GitLab-specific context including style guides, GitLab UI content translations, terminology databases, and original file context. This system intelligently handles GitLab's specialized markdown syntax (GLFM) and protects elements like placeholder variables, alert boxes, Hugo shortcodes, and GitLab-specific references that standard translation tools can't process out of the box.   \n* Phase 2: Human linguistic review. Professional Japanese translators specialized in technical content then review and refine the AI translations. They work with GitLab's Japanese style guide, translation memory, and terminology database to ensure accuracy, natural language flow, and cultural appropriateness. These human-reviewed translations progressively replace the AI versions on the site.\n\n## Technical challenges and solutions\n\nLocalizing GitLab's extensive documentation, while maintaining our docs-as-code principles and CI/CD-driven publishing workflow, required significant technical innovation. The challenges extended beyond translation itself: we needed to preserve complex markdown syntax, maintain automated testing standards, ensure seamless content fallbacks, and create sustainable processes for continuous updates across multiple source projects.\n\nThe English **markdown file syntax complexity** led us to developing custom code and regex in our Translation Management System (TMS) to protect codeblocks, URLs, and other functional elements that should not be exposed for translation.\n\n![Translation Management System](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1765299311/x3oglow15o5z6xthgxfn.png)\n\nDue to the dynamics of how the English content is generated, we established an **English fallback mechanism.** Essentially, when the Japanese translation is not ready yet, the localized site seamlessly displays English content with translated navigation and UI, preventing 404s and maintaining language context via Hugo’s rendering system.\n\nWe enhanced the localized navigation and linking so that it adjusts dynamically and would persist the locale. We added **anchor IDs** in the translated files by pre-processing the English file before it’s sent for translation. That improves the experience for people navigating to a docs page from a link. The consistent anchor ID means they can change to either language and still land in the correct place in the page.\n\n![English fallback mechanism](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1765299310/uqimyjm0ltvpcnc7bowk.png)\n\n[We also extended CI/CD pipelines](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/localization/-/work_items/109) to test localized content in Translation MRs following the same quality standards as the English docs. It allows us to catch invalid Hugo shortcodes, spaces inside links, or bare URLs. It also identifies orphaned files and redirects files with no target files. You can see the jobs that run on the MRs containing translated documentation [on the GitLab project  `.gitlab/ci/docs.gitlab-ci.yml` file](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/.gitlab/ci/docs.gitlab-ci.yml). \n\nA centralized translation request system orchestrates the workflow, monitors the English files, identifies new and updated content, routes files for translation, automatically creates translation merge requests, tracks file status in translation requests and maintains an audit trail. To get docs translated [we processed 430 Translation MRs](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/localization/tech-docs-forked-projects/prod/-/merge_requests/?sort=updated_asc&state=merged&label_name%5B%5D=gitlab-translation-service&label_name%5B%5D=translation-upstream%3A%3A%20complete&first_page_size=100) with files ranging from 1-10 in each Translation MR.\n\n![Translation MRs](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1765299311/fgbrtapbmclj4pvdjh9k.png)\n\nThe result is a Japanese documentation experience that stays synchronized with English content updates, giving users faster access to critical information. Users can discover and navigate content fully in their language, with English appearing only for content that’s still in translation. They can trust GitLab’s quality standards while accessing the latest features quickly. All of this creates a sustainable, scalable foundation for future languages and documentation growth.\n\nLearn more about all the technical details in our [GitLab Product Documentation Handbook page](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/localization/tech_docs_localization/).\n\n## Visit our Japanese docs site\n\nWhether you're a longtime GitLab user or just getting started, we hope this localized documentation makes your DevSecOps journey smoother and more accessible.\n\nThis is just the beginning of our localization efforts, and your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve. If you notice any translation issues, have suggestions for improvement, or simply want to share your experience using the Japanese documentation, please don't hesitate to reach out. You can provide comments in our [feedback issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/localization/docs-site-localization/-/work_items/782).\n\nAs we continue evolving this localization infrastructure, our immediate priorities include enhancing the search experience for Japanese users, and accelerating our continuous localization workflow to minimize the time gap between English updates and their Japanese translations. Thank you to our Japanese community for your continued support and patience as we work to serve you better. 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