Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this release, you can apply specific configuration properties to the Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") editor using a dedicated ConfigMap:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: vscode-editor-configurations
data:
  extensions.json: |
    {
      "recommendations": [
          "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
          "github.vscode-pull-request-github"
      ]
    }
  settings.json: |
    {
      "window.header": "SOME HEADER MESSAGE",
      "window.commandCenter": false,
      "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "titleBar.activeBackground": "#CCA700",
        "titleBar.activeForeground": "#ffffff"
      }
    }
immutable: false

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: vscode-editor-configurations
data:
  extensions.json: |
    {
      "recommendations": [
          "dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
          "github.vscode-pull-request-github"
      ]
    }
  settings.json: |
    {
      "window.header": "SOME HEADER MESSAGE",
      "window.commandCenter": false,
      "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "titleBar.activeBackground": "#CCA700",
        "titleBar.activeForeground": "#ffffff"
      }
    }
immutable: false

Learn more about this feature in the official documentation.

The editor tiles displayed on the User Dashboard, including the license and version information, received a UI/UX enhancement.

With this release, you can view the full content of the .gitconfig file. Access it on the User Preferences Gitconfig tab by clicking Switch to Viewer.

Starting from this release, fuse-overlayfs will be detected automatically for the default Universal Developer Image.

With this release, the official documentation for configuring workspace endpoints base domain is available.

With this release, the official documentation for persisting the /home/user directory across workspace restarts is available.

The official documentation that explains how to configure proxy settings is available.

Starting from this release, the securityContext set in the CheCluster Custom Resource is applied to the Cloud Development Environment’s (CDE) che-gateway container.

With this release, if there is a proxy configured in the cluster, the proxy configuration is mounted to the che-dashboard container as environment variables: HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, and NO_PROXY.

With this release, you can use JetBrains Gateway to connect your local JetBrains IDE (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm, WebStorm, RubyMine, and CLion) to a running Dev Spaces instance.