Release Notes and Known Issues
Highlighted features in Red Hat Development Suite 2.1
Abstract
Chapter 1. About Red Hat Development Suite
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 includes several Red Hat products such as Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.1 and Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.2, as well as some dependencies for each of these products.
Support information for Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 is as follows:
- Both the Online and Bundled installers are supported for Windows 7, 8, and 10.
- Both the Online and Bundled installers are supported for macOS. These installers run on macOS 10.9 or newer.
- Supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 using the standard package management system.
A user who wants to download and use Red Hat Development Suite must become a member of the Red Hat Developer Program. Sign up for the program here: Red Hat Developer Program.
Chapter 2. Installation Options
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 includes the following installation options:
Windows-only Installers (Supported)
- An Installer that has an initial download of 1 GB and includes Red Hat Container Development Kit, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio , OpenJDK, and Cygwin for installation. Red Hat JBoss Fuse Tooling, Red Hat JBoss Fuse on JBoss EAP, Red Hat JBoss Fuse on Apache Karaf, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, VirtualBox and Kompose are not included in the installer and have to be downloaded during the installation time.
- An Online Installer that is a 60 MB download and downloads the required components during the installation process.
macOS-only Installers (Supported)
- An Installer that has an initial download of 1 GB and includes Red Hat Container Development Kit, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, OpenJDK and Cygwin for installation. Red Hat JBoss Fuse Tooling, Red Hat JBoss Fuse on JBoss EAP, Red Hat JBoss Fuse on Apache Karaf, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, VirtualBox and Kompose are not included in the installer and have to be downloaded during the installation time.
- An Online Installer that is a 60 MB download and downloads the required components during the installation process.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Development Suite uses RPM packages to install Red Hat Container Development Kit, Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, OpenJDK , and Kompose.
Chapter 3. What Is New in Red Hat Development Suite?
3.1. Technology Preview
Kompose 1.3.0 is included as a Technology Preview feature in Red Hat Development Suite. See Section 3.2, “Updated Component Versions” for details.
For more information on Red Hat Technology Preview features support scope, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.
3.2. Updated Component Versions
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 has the following version updates:
- Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.1
- Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.2
- Kompose 1.3.0 (Technology Preview)
- OpenJDK 8u151
- Cygwin 2.9.0-3
Table 3.1 Components Details shows a list of components that are updated this release and their supported platforms. See Red Hat Development Suite Installation Guide for a full list of components.
Table 3.1. Component Details
| Included Components | Windows | macOS | Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Kompose 1.3.0 (Technology Preview) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| OpenJDK 8u151 | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ |
| Cygwin 2.9.0-3 | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ |
3.3. Enhanced User Interface
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 includes several new user interface changes and an additional installation step. The user interface changes for Windows and macOS are similiar except Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 integrates with the touch bar on macOS.
Figure 3.1. Touch Bar on macOS
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 integrates with the Touch Bar only with macOS that support Touch Bar.
See Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 Installation Guide for detailed installation instructions. The following is an overview of the installer changes in this release:
Right click the Welcome window to open the menu. The new menu items are Help and About Red Hat Development Suite.
Figure 3.2. Welcome
- From the menu list, click Help or press F1 to go to Red Hat Development Suite documentation.
From the menu list, click About Red Hat Development Suite to go to the About window.
Figure 3.3 shows what you can do from the new About window:
- 1. View Red Hat Development Suite documentation.
- 2. See Red Hat Development Suite Release Notes.
3. View Troubleshooting or Report Issues.
Figure 3.3. About
If macOS, click About on the Touch Bar to view Red Hat Development Suite documentation, see Red Hat Development Suite Release Notes, and view Toubleshooting or Report Issues.
Figure 3.4. Touch Bar with Documentation, Release Notes, and Report Issues
- On the Welcome window, click Next to continue.
- On the Target Folder window, add a path to the target directory for the Red Hat Development Suite installation. Click Next to continue.
On the Selection window (previously called Confirmation window), you can click Select All to select all components for installation, or click Clear All button to clear all components for installation. You can also view the download size of every component on the Selection window.
Figure 3.5 shows the download size and new buttons.
- 1. The download size of Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio.
- 2. Select All button
3. Clear All button
Click Next to continue.
Figure 3.5. Selection
The new Confirmation window displays:
- Components that are selected for installation.
- Download status for every component. The Download status can be either Previously Downloaded, Selected to download or Downloaded.
- Total Download size.
Total Install size.
Click Next to continue.
Figure 3.6. Confirmation
- On the Account window, enter your Red Hat Developer login credentials. You can select the new Remember me checkbox to save your Red Hat Developer login credentials as you log in. Click Download and Install to continue.
On the new Download and Install window, a progress bar shows the progress for a component selected for downloading and installing. The components are downloaded and installed sequentially. The downloading progress for the total download size for all of the selected components is displayed.
Figure 3.7. Download and Install
If an error occurs during the download & installation process, a window is opened which states the download failed. On the new Download and Install window, you can click the Details button to review the error logs.
Figure 3.8. Downloading and Installing failure
Chapter 4. Known Issues
Red Hat Development Suite issues are now tracked in GitHub.
4.1. Known Issues
Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 has the following known issues:
- JBDS-4404 - DevSuite 1.4 Installer hung during install waiting for cygwin
- JBDS-3983 - Development Suite Installer should work behind proxy
- JBDS-4209 - Request for Administrator credentials should be shown once
- JBDS-3827 - DevStudio installation fails when (windows) user has non-ascii chars in the name
- JBDS-3956 - Installer should let to update deteched aravle virtualbox
- JBDS-4376 - Uninstaller for Mac
- JBDS-4369 - Provide a .exe for uninstaller on Windows
- JBDS-4341 - Detect pending reboot and ask to reboot before continue with installation
4.2. Closed Issues
- JBDS-4485 - Deselected components get selected during second detection run
- JBDS-4554 - Replace context menu in installer with normally expected UI elements: buttons and links
- JBDS-4576 - Implement frame-less about dialog with 'OK/Close' button
- JBDS-3622 - Installer - When an install fails, the install UI simply stops - the user is not presented with a cancel/quit button
Chapter 5. Next Steps
Try the Red Hat Development Suite installer using the following instructions: Red Hat Development Suite 2.1 Installation Guide.
If you have already installed Red Hat Development Suite, start using it with these instructions: Getting Started with Container and Cloud-based Development.