Artifact and job meta data expiration settings are changing for GitLab.com

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This post details changes to GitLab.com's CI/CD job artifact and metadata expiration policies. Effective June 22, 2020, new job artifacts will default to a 30-day expiration. Existing artifacts created between October 22, 2019, and June 22, 2020, will have their expiration set to 1 year from creation. Artifacts created before October 22, 2019, will expire on April 22, 2021. Jobs older than 12 months will be archived starting June 22, 2020, with this threshold gradually reducing to 3 months by September 22, 2020. New build data and job metadata will be archived 3 months after creation. Users can override artifact expiration using the 'expire_in' keyword. The benefits include improved performance, reliability, and reduced operational costs.