Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this release, the Base Developer Image based on RHEL 9 is available. This image contains the minimal dependencies required to run Dev Spaces workspaces with support for features such as Podman, and persistent home. The Base Developer Image is available at registry.redhat.io/devspaces/udi-base-rhel9.

Previously, users were able to manually download and install unapproved Visual Studio Code extensions in the .vsix format. This could lead to the installation of potentially malicious extensions.

With this release, admins can use ConfigMap to disable the Install from VSIX…​ feature and prevent the download and installation of unapproved extensions.

The process of mounting certificates into user containers has been improved in this release:

More details about importing untrusted TLS certificates are available in the official documentation.

Starting from this release, you can configure a Personal Access Token (PAT) for accessing a Microsoft Azure DevOps Server (TFS) instance hosted on-premise.

Learn more about the PAT setup in the official documentation

With this release, you can configure not only settings.json and extensions.json, but also product.json for Visual Studio Code - Open Source editor by 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": "A HEADER MESSAGE",
      "window.commandCenter": false,
      "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "titleBar.activeBackground": "#CCA700",
        "titleBar.activeForeground": "#ffffff"
      }
    }
  product.json: |
    {
      "extensionEnabledApiProposals": {
        "ms-python.python": [
          "contribEditorContentMenu",
          "quickPickSortByLabel",
        ]
      },
      "trustedExtensionAuthAccess": [
        "<publisher1>.<extension1>",
        "<publisher2>.<extension2>"
      ]
    }

Learn more about the procedure in the official documentation