Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this release, you can easily choose an editor when starting a workspace from the User Dashboard by using the brand-new "Editor Selector" panel.

Find more details about specifying a custom editor in the official documentation.

Starting from this release, you can add parameters when defining a URL of a getting started sample:

     {
        "displayName": "Example",
        "description": "Example",
        "tags": ["example"],
        "url": "https://example.com/my-project.git?df=next/base/devfile.yaml"
      }

Find more details about configuring getting started samples in the official documentation.

With this release, you can specify which extensions are trusted and can access authentication tokens using the dedicated VSCODE_TRUSTED_EXTENSIONS environment variable defined in the devfile or ConfigMap:

   env:
     - name: VSCODE_TRUSTED_EXTENSIONS
       value: "<publisher1>.<extension1>,<publisher2>.<extension2>"

Find more details about the enhancement in the official documentation.

With this release, if the imagePuller option is enabled on the CheCluster Custom Resource level, the operator automatically fetches related images from both devfile and plugin registries to create and manage ImagePuller Custom Resource for faster workspace startup.

Find more details about the enhancement in the official documentation.

Before this release, only revoking GitHub OAuth from the User Dashboard was supported. Recently, GitLab added a Revoke a token API and it is now possible to also revoke the GitLab OAuth access right from the User Dashboard.

For other Git Services navigation to the provider website and following the instructions for revoking OAuth access is required.

Hovering over a workspace from the "Recent Workspaces" expands the name if it is long and does not fit the sidebar.

Starting from this release, when you create a Personal Access Token on the User Dashboard, the "Provider" field will correspond to the dedicated Git Service. Previously , oauth2- string with a random postfix was used. This resulted in poor visibility.