eclipse-che/che 7.87.0

Eclipse Che 7.87.0

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Major Enhancements

Dashboard should switch to the tab with already running workspace

When you open a workspace from the User Dashboard, and a browser tab corresponding to the same workspace already exists, the switch to the browser tab happens automatically starting from this release. Previously a new browser tab was created whenever you tried opening a workspace from the User Dashboard:

Restart Workspace from Local Devfile command should be more informative when devfile is not valid

Starting from this release if the 'Restart Workspace from Local Devfile' command is failing due to an invalid devfile, the error notification message is more informative and contains the exact reason for failure:

Update dotnet from 6.0 to 8.0 in the Universal Developer Image

dotnet-sdk-8.0 is now available by default in the Universal Developer Image (UDI).

Documentation of the local desktop development experience with JetBrains Gateway

Official documentation of the local desktop development experience with JetBrains Gateway has been added in this release.

Deploy Eclipse Che on a virtual Kubernetes cluster

Official documentation for installing Eclipse Che on a virtual Kubernetes cluster has been added in this release.

Removal of the outdated editors

The following editors have been deprecated and removed in this release:

• che-incubator/che-pycharm/latest/devfile.yaml
• dirigiblelabs/dirigible/latest/devfile.yaml
• ws-skeleton/eclipseide/latest/devfile.yaml
• ws-skeleton/jupyter/latest/devfile.yaml
• cdr/code-server/latest/devfile.yaml

You can find more details can in the dedicated community mailing thread.

Major Bug fixes

Multiple "401 Unauthorized" errors when open VS Code Editor

From time to time, you could encounter multiple "401 Unauthorized" errors when opening a workspace with the Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") editor. The defect has been fixed in this release.

Automatic 'podman login' with configured container registry not working

Previously, after configuring container registries (quay.io, docker.io, etc.) from the User Dashboard and starting a workspace, you were not automatically logged into the configured registries. The defect has been fixed in this release.

Provide edits on '.code-workspace' file

In this release, the parsing error of the .code-workspace file that contains extra commas has been fixed:

{
	"folders": [
		{
			"name": "che-code",
			"path": "/projects/che-code",
		},
	]
}

An empty project is displayed in the editor's project tree

An empty project used to be displayed in the project tree of the Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") editor, if several starter projects were defined in the devfile. The defect has been fixed in this release.