Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

Starting from this release, podman login is performed automatically during workspace startup for all container registries configured in the User Preferences.

When you open a workspace from the User Dashboard, and a browser tab corresponding to the same workspace already exists, the switch to the browser tab happens automatically starting from this release. Previously a new browser tab was created whenever you tried opening a workspace from the User Dashboard.

Starting from this release, if the 'Restart Workspace from Local Devfile' command is failing due to an invalid devfile, the error notification message is more informative and contains the exact reason for the failure.

With this release, you can define annotations for all Cloud Development Environment (CDE) pods using a dedicated CustomResource field:

apiVersion: org.eclipse.che/v2
kind: CheCluster
spec:
  devEnvironments:
    workspacesPodAnnotations:
      cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/safe-to-evict: false

Previously, you could only configure custom editor definitions by modifying and rebuilding the Plugin Registry. Starting from this release, you can configure them by creating a dedicated ConfigMap.

Starting from this release, you can enable fuse-overlayfs for all CDEs.

Learn more about this feature in the official documentation.

With this release, the user experience during failures related to pre-configured Advanced Authorization is improved. When your access is denied, you will see a clear error message when accessing the User Dashboard.

Learn more about Advanced Authorization in the official documentation.

A new experimental feature that forces a refresh of the OAuth access token during workspace startup has been added in this release.

Learn more about this feature in the official documentation.

With this release, the new 2.3.0 schemaVersion of the devfile is supported for the CDE definition:

schemaVersion: 2.3.0
metadata:
  generateName: quarkus-api-example
attributes:
  controller.devfile.io/storage-type: ephemeral
components:
  - name: tools
    container:
      image: quay.io/devfile/universal-developer-image:ubi8-latest
      env:
        - name: QUARKUS_HTTP_HOST
          value: 0.0.0.0
...

More details about version 2.3.0 are available in the official documentation.