Chapter 2. Notable enhancements

CodeReady Workspaces 2.15.1 has been updated from including Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 to Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.1 for two reasons: * The latest update includes all the most recent bug fixes and security updates. * The latest update replaces the deprecated OpenJ9 images with Red Hat build of OpenJDK based images for use with all three supported architectures: AMD64, IBM Z, and IBM Power.

With this update, a sample is available in the CodeReady Workspaces dashboard for starting a new workspace with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition in it.

In Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.0 (formerly CodeReady Workspaces), support for the following deployment environments is planned for removal due to the switch to the DevWorkspace Operator:

Bug fixes and support are planned through the end of the 2.15.z life cycle. After which, no new feature enhancements are made.

With Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.0 (formerly CodeReady Workspaces), the supported deployment environments will be the following: * OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 * Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated 4.10 * Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS 4.10

With this update, Git Large File Storage (LFS) is enabled with the DevWorkspace Operator 0.12 or later. The LFS is enabled when you create the workspace by using a devfile to point to a Git repository or when you manually clone a Git repository inside the workspace. To install a CodeReady Workspaces instance with the DevWorkspace Operator, use the Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces - Technical Preview Operator in the OperatorHub.

Before this update, code samples implemented the devfile v1 specification. With this update, code samples are implementing the devfile v2 specification.

Language Support for Apache Camel by Red Hat, the Visual Studio Code extension that adds Apache Camel language support for XML DSL and Java DSL code, is upgraded to 0.1.3.

This enhancement improves the startup and runtime performance of the Java and Quarkus extensions for Visual Studio Code in workspaces that load Che-Theia with these extensions. The improved performance is achieved by increasing the CPU limit from 500 MB to 800 MB.

With this update, Technology Preview samples in the dashboard are now labelled with Tech-Preview to differentiate them from the samples that have full Red Hat support.

In CodeReady Workspaces 2.15, the crwctl workspace: and crwctl auth: commands are removed. You can use the CodeReady Workspaces dashboard instead. Bug fixes and support are provided through the end of the CodeReady Workspaces 2.14 life cycle. After which, no new feature enhancements are made.

Before this update, Eclipse OpenJ9 was the Java SE implementation for containers targeting IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) OpenShift clusters. With this update, the OpenJ9 JVM in the OpenShift containers for IBM Power (ppc64le) and IBM Z (s390x) is replaced by the Red Hat build of OpenJDK. Existing CodeReady Workspaces installations, on update to 2.15.1, switch over to use OpenJDK in the Java 8 and 11 sidecar images rather than the OpenJ9 ones. Customers whose devfiles reference the OpenJ9-based containers must edit their devfiles and replace "-openj9-rhel8" with "-rhel8" to continue to receive security updates. See also CRW-2785.

With this update, CodeReady Workspaces 2.15.1 will be available through OperatorHub on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.