Limit credential exposure with fine-grained personal access tokens

GitLab has introduced fine-grained personal access tokens (PATs) in beta, allowing users to restrict tokens to specific permissions required for particular tasks, enhancing security by limiting the potential damage if a token leaks. Unlike traditional PATs, which often have broad access across multiple projects, fine-grained PATs allow permissions to be assigned per resource, such as Issues, Merge Requests, and Pipelines, with distinct Create, Read, Update, and Delete permissions. This new approach means a token can be scoped to specific projects or groups and individual tasks, thereby reducing exposure and making it easier to audit token permissions. Although currently covering about 75% of REST API endpoints, the full rollout will extend support to all REST and GraphQL endpoints. During the beta phase, existing PATs remain functional, and users can experiment with both traditional and fine-grained tokens. Feedback is encouraged to refine the implementation and fully embrace the least-privilege token model.

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