Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this update, admins can create a custom devfile registry from a clone of the devfile registry Git repository that is hosted on Bitbucket.

With this update, the User Preferences menu features a Personal Access Token tab. You can use the tab to manage GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Microsoft Azure DevOps personal access tokens. This applies to tokens created from the OpenShift Dev Spaces Dashboard UI as well as those created manually, using a Kubernetes secret.

This release features two CheCluster CRs fields for managing persistences related to workspaces $HOME directory:

Previously, trusted TLS certificates configured in OpenShift Dev Spaces were ignored if an OpenShift cluster-wide proxy was configured. With this update, you can configure DevWorkspace operator to avoid this undesired behavior.

With this update, commands defined in the parent devfile are now available in Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source as tasks.

Previously, users had to provide a Git username when adding a personal access token. This step was redundant and caused errors. With this update, the step is removed from the procedure.

By default, OpenShift Dev Spaces hosts the IDE (Microsoft Visual Studio - Open Source Code or JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition) in the first container specified in a devfile. With this update, you can specify the component that will host the IDE using the attribute controller.devfile.io/merge-contribution: true.

In the following example, the IDE will be hosted in "component2":

schemaVersion: 2.2.0
components:
  - name: component1
    container:
      image: quay.io/sclorg/postgresql-15-c9s:c9s
  - name: component2
     attributes:
       controller.devfile.io/merge-contribution: true
     container:
       image: quay.io/devfile/developer-base-image:latest

schemaVersion: 2.2.0
components:
  - name: component1
    container:
      image: quay.io/sclorg/postgresql-15-c9s:c9s
  - name: component2
     attributes:
       controller.devfile.io/merge-contribution: true
     container:
       image: quay.io/devfile/developer-base-image:latest

With this update, the TLS certificate of the OpenShift internal container registry is trusted by Podman. You can use Podman to pull images without adding the certificates manually.

With this update, the IDE of existing workspaces will be updated automatically after an upgrade or whenever the definition of the IDE changes.

With this update, the "Waiting for a workspace to start" step on the workspace loading page features 7 subtasks. This enhancement provides better progress feedback and makes troubleshooting easier.

With this update, the following metrics are available in the OpenShift Console Operator metrics: