Major Enhancements
You can now spread your developer environments across multiple OpenShift clusters using a new multicluster redirector. This service automatically redirects users to the correct Eclipse Che instance on the appropriate cluster based on their Red Hat OpenShift group membership. More details about the multicluster redirector solution for Red Hat OpenShift are available in the official documentation.
Global init containers can now be configured directly through the CheCluster custom resource from the spec.devEnvironments.initContainers field. The field accepts type []Container.
The new field can be configured as follows:
apiVersion: org.eclipse.che/v2
kind: CheCluster
spec:
devEnvironments:
initContainers:
- name: my-container
image: quay.io/my-container:latest
Setting the configuration above will add a my-container init container for all CDE pods.
Additionally, if the spec.devEnvironments.persistUserHome.enabled is set to true, the init-persistent-home init container can be overwritten by specifying an init container in spec.devEnvironments.initContainers named init-persistent-home.
With this release, it is now possible to globally configure the SSH configuration for all Dev Spaces users. Administrators can extend the default SSH config file that is applied across the environment, and individual Che users can further extend this default configuration with their own custom SSH settings as needed. More details about mounting SSH configuration can be found in the official documentation.
With this release, the devworkspace-generator project has been migrated to Yarn v4. This update modernizes the dependency management setup, improves performance and consistency of installs, and aligns the project with the latest Yarn ecosystem improvements.
With this release, the che-server typescript-dto module has been migrated to Yarn v4. This change ensures a more up-to-date and maintainable build environment, providing improved dependency resolution and better alignment with current tooling standards.
With this release, chectl has been migrated to Yarn v4 to align with the latest Yarn ecosystem improvements.
DevWorkspace Operator 0.40.0 is now available, adding new functionality to Eclipse Che. For more information, see the changelog.
With this release, the process for managing extensions in the Open VSX registry has been clarified with new documentation covering the supported and recommended approach for removing extensions. This includes guidance for scenarios where extensions may need to be removed manually, ensuring administrators have clear and consistent instructions for maintaining their registry.
Bug Fixes
Resolved an issue where podman run coupled nested containers would fail in workspaces configured with parent devfiles. When spec.devEnvironments.disableContainerRunCapabilities is set to false, CDE containers receive HOST_USERS=false to indicate they're running in a dedicated user namespace, allowing container images to adjust their behaviour accordingly.
Support samples whose development container are based on UBI 8 images when connecting a local instance of VS Code to that remote container over SSH.
With this release, an issue affecting the user dashboard on arm64 platforms has been resolved. Editors were not displayed because the system detected the architecture as aarch64, while the editor configuration defined the available architecture as arm64. The architecture handling has been aligned to ensure editors are correctly recognized and displayed on arm64 environments.
Make Jetbrains Desktop editor images more resilient to running on UBI 9.7 based images, with any samples whose development container is based on a UBI < 9.7.
Ensure Che Code (based on UBI 9.7) starts successfully when used in combination with a sample workspace whose developer container uses OpenSSL version < 3.4.0 (eg. UBI < 9.7).
Previously, there was a bug where the ConfigMaps defined in the operator deployment changed order on every reconcile, causing
an endless reconcile loop. This issue has been fixed for this release.
Previously, the Che ConfigMap contained obsolete fields which were used in the Che Server workspace engine. These fields have been removed for this release.
