Chapter 2. Notable enhancements

Before this update, the Che-Theia editor displayed an empty file explorer when the workspace contained no projects. For the user, it was not obvious how to create a file or clone a repository. With this update, the Che-Theia editor displays the Open Folder and Clone Repository buttons in the file explorer.

With this update, the GitHub factory implementation supports reading from a private repository. Users can load a devfile hosted in a private repository. The added support for OpenShift OAuth token authentication allows working with repositories behind an RH-SSO organization.

Before this release, using the Image Puller involved providing a list of images to pre-pull. With this release, when installed with CodeReady Workspaces using OperatorHub, the Image Puller auto-pulls the relevant images. The images to pre-pull are the default images used for workspace startup, including Theia, plugin broker, and sidecar images.

The Tool-set for the Apache Camel K extension has been upgraded to version 0.0.26.

With this update, the Image Puller can pre-pull any CodeReady Workspaces image on all the Nodes of an OpenShift cluster. This includes scratch images.