Major Enhancements
Microsoft Visual Studio Code desktop flow
Starting from this release, you can connect a local desktop Microsoft Visual Studio Code instance to a Cloud Development Environment (CDE) using the Remote - Tunnels extension:
Learn more about the setup in the official documentation.
Documentation
Platform-specific installation guides for the DevWorkspace Operator
Eclipse Che is using the DevWorkspace Operator under the hood to manage the lifecycle of the Cloud Development Environments. In this release, Platform-Specific Installation Guides for kind, minikube, and OpenShift have been added to the project's documentation.
Bug Fixes
Obsolete Visual Studio Code editor version is used in the existing workspaces after version upgrade
Previously, there was a known issue affecting Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("CODE - OSS"). After an upgrade, an obsolete version of the editor continued being used for existing workspaces instead of the new version. The defect has been fixed in this release.
A new workspace can not be created if the target devfile contains both parent reference and the storage-type attribute
Before this release, you could not create a workspace if the target devfile had a parent reference, and had the storage-type field overridden, since the parent schema does not support overrides in the attributes. The defect has been fixed.
Starting from this release, the attributes.controller.devfile.io/storage-type is not applied in the child devfile if it is defined in the parent. The Change Storage Type widget is also disabled in this situation:
Broken 'Devfile Viewer' styles on the User Dashboard
Before this release, the 'Devfile Viewer' styles were broken on the User Dashboard for some devfiles:
The defect has been fixed in this release.
The 'Changes' commands in the down list are not available on the 'Source Control' panel
Before this release, the 'Changes' commands in the drop-down list were not available on the 'Source Control' panel of the Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("CODE - OSS"):
The defect has been fixed in this release.
Failed to create workspace when launching private repository factory with refused OAuth
The defect related to the workspace startup from a private repository when OAuth was refused has been fixed in this release.
Start workspace page displays misleading warning "The Bitbucket integration is not configured properly" when opening gogs public repository using HTTP URL
Previously, a warning message "The Bitbucket integration is not configured properly" appeared when opening gogs public repository using HTTP URL
The defect has been fixed in this release.
Warning message "Cannot build a factory with any of the provided parameters" appears when creating workspace from a gogs private repo using an SSH URL
Previously, a warning message "Cannot build a factory with any of the provided parameters" appeared when creating a workspace from a gogs private repository using an SSH URL. The defect has been fixed in this release.
