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Major Enhancements
Enable Dockerfile build capabilities by default
The Linux capabilities SETUID and SETGID, required to build of a container image using podman in rootless mode, are now enabled by default. Administrators can still opt-out setting CheCluster CR .spec.devEnvironments.disableBuildCapabilities to true. This is the last step of the journey to allow building Dockerfile from withing an Eclipse Che cloud development environment. It started with a manual procedure described in this blog post, was exposed through one single property in Eclipse Che v7.56 and is now, after a months of feedbacks in real world Kubernetes clusters, enabled by default.
Allow starting a workspace from a repository with an invalid devfile
Eclipse Che uses the Devfile at the root of a repository, if any, to provision a cloud development environment. If a Devfile at the root of the project was invalid, Eclipse Che refused to provision the cloud development environment. With this enhancement Eclipse Che ask the user if a default cloud development environment, with a default and valid Devfile, should be provisioned instead. That allows to open the source code and fix the invalid Devfile.
Add a VS Code menu item to open the OpenShift when running on Red Hat OpenShift
A developer may need to have access to the logs, events or definition of Kubernetes objects. When the underlying platform is Red Hat OpenShift those information are available in the Console. To make it easy to jump to the console, the VS Code included with Eclipse Che uses a built-in extension that adds a menu item to open the OpenShift Console in a new browser tab.
VS Code and JetBrains IDEs are started using containers postStart handler. Containers entrypoints are not overridden anymore.
VS Code and Jet Brains IDEs (IntelliJ and PyCharm) executables are mounted in the first container of the Pod and started at the cloud development environment creation. This used to be done using the container entrypoint, overriding whatever command the user had specified. Now startup of the IDEs is done attaching a postStart lifecycle handler. As a result Eclipse Che is not modifying the user containers entrypoints anymore.
Major Bug Fixes
Failure to find devfiles in GitLab nested repositories
When attempting to create a workspace from a GitLab repository that is more than 2 levels deep (e.g. my.gitlab.com/group/subgrp1/subgrpN/repo.git), Che was failing to find the devfile. This has been addressed in this repository and Eclipse Che supports GitLab nested repositories.
Blank characters at the beginning or the end of a git personal access token secrets should be dropped off
Personal access token secrets are an alternative to setting up an OAuth Eclipse Che Application for authentication to git service providers. Creating a the secret is a manual procedure that requires to copy-paste and Base64-encode the token. During this procedure a blank char (a new line or a space) can creep in the secret data making it invalid. This problem is now mitigated because any spaces at the beginning or at the end of personal access tokens are automatically trimmed by Eclipse Che.
Starting a cloud development environment from a bitbucket.org repository is failing
The git URL provided by bitbucket.org to clone a repository included the username. When a user tried to use that same URL to start an Eclipse Che cloud development environment if failed. This behavior has been addressed in this release and BitBucket URLs including the username can be used to start a cloud development environment.