announcement_milestone:"14.5"# The milestone when this feature was first announced as deprecated.
announcement_date:"2021-11-22"# The date of the milestone release when this feature was first announced as deprecated. This should almost always be the 22nd of a month (YYYY-MM-22), unless you did an out of band blog post.
removal_milestone:"15.0"# The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed
removal_date:"2022-05-22"# the date of the milestone release when this feature is planned to be removed
breaking_change:true
body:| # Do not modify this line, instead modify the lines below.
A feature flag was [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/11582) in GitLab 13.7 as part of the change to require authentication to use the Dependency Proxy. Before GitLab 13.7, you could use the Dependency Proxy without authentication.
In GitLab 15.0, we will remove the feature flag, and you must always authenticate when you use the Dependency Proxy.
