VS Code Release 1.66

[filiptronicek]

Endgame: microsoft/vscode#145549
Release: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.66.0

MS release date: March 30, 2022

DRI: @filiptronicek @mustard-mh
Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/1.66
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.66 release/1.66
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/1.66
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.66 gp-code/release/1.66
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point to the release branches

  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/1b60a53a1a34b61dfb41ca13b65bfbad4115bda4/.github/workflows/insiders-gp.yml#L19

  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/1b60a53a1a34b61dfb41ca13b65bfbad4115bda4/.github/workflows/insiders.yml#L19

  • [code] point code nightly to gp-code main release 1.66 #9027

    gitpod/.github/workflows/code-nightly.yaml

    Line 34 in 4bdee21

    headCommit=$(curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.VERSION.sha' https://api.github.com/repos/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/commits/gp-code/main)

• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo to generate stable image for VS Code [code] Build stable image for 1.66 and use it in Insiders #9044
  • Use the template from https://gist.github.com/filiptronicek/be19dcab639a1cdf08089cc762377a41
  • Smoke test version 1.66 in VS Code Insiders
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo updating VS Code stable image tags to image generated in previous step [code] Update stable to 1.66.0 #9048
  

  gitpod/chart/values.yaml

  Line 361 in 14a9636

  stableVersion: "commit-93edb90833d8d662f4c1a64b2ad8ced456e62862"

  
  

  gitpod/install/installer/pkg/components/workspace/ide/constants.go

  Line 9 in 866357d

  CodeIDEImageStableVersion = "commit-a5d259949a3fa8d3bbfbb4cb19fd2c3fb0cdf00b" // stable version that will be updated manually on demand

• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable
• Release OpenVSCode Server https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases/tag/openvscode-server-v1.66.0
• Port fixes from release/1.66 to main if any
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point back to main and gp-code/main branch
• Monitor for recovery releases and provide corresponding release in Gitpod and OpenVSCode if necessary

[mustard-mh]

Should we change this to release/1.66 too?
https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/99eaaf3f402d0decd16611be1a058c672c080e2f/.github/workflows/insiders-gp.yml#L18

Node version is 16 now
https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/99eaaf3f402d0decd16611be1a058c672c080e2f/.github/workflows/insiders-gp.yml#L50

[mustard-mh]

https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/99eaaf3f402d0decd16611be1a058c672c080e2f/.github/workflows/insiders-gp.yml#L64
Maybe this should change too, due to Node version changed

[jeanp413]

I bumped node version in this commit gitpod-io/openvscode-releases@bb21e32

[jeanp413]

Same in gitpod repo #9029