Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

This enhancement adds an autoProvision field to the CheCluster custom resource where OpenShift Dev Spaces administrators can disable automatic provisioning of user namespaces:

spec:
   components
   containerRegistry
   devEnvironments:
     defaultNamespace:
       autoProvision: true 1

With this update, the OpenShift Toolkit extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source is updated to version 1.0.0, which provides support for odo 3.3.0.

With this update, administrators can select OAuth application Secrets of their Git providers in the CheCluster Custom Resource and the OpenShift web console.

With this update, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source in workspaces in a restricted environment. To manage extensions, OpenShift Dev Spaces now includes a locally cached Open VSX Registry instance in the plugin registry pod.

In OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.3, the default editor in workspaces is Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source IDE.

This enhancement updates the options for the dsc server:delete CLI command:

With this update, OpenShift Dev Spaces fetches the latest versions of the devfile.yaml and che-editor.yaml files in the remote Git repository when you use the URL for that repository to start a new workspace.

In OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.3, the Universal Developer Image (UDI) is updated as follows:

In OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.3, the sample projects provided in the dashboard have changed as follows:

With this update, Calculating OpenShift Dev Spaces resource requirements has been improved to include CPU details and Microsoft Visual Studio Code - Open Source, which is the new default editor.

With this update, users can specify arbitrary fields and override any fields for the workspace Pod and containers in a devfile. This includes runtimeClassName, schedulerName, and such Kubernetes extended resources as nvidia.com/gpu. To do that, users can use the new pod-overrides and container-overrides attributes.

With this update, an Empty Workspace tile is available in the dashboard from which you can create an empty workspace. Such a workspace starts with your IDE of choice and the UDI image containing various tools and CLI applications for software development in Java, Python, Node.js, C/C++, PHP, .Net and other languages. Once opened, you can use the IDE in the workspace to clone a remote Git repository.

With this update, administrators can configure such options as storage class and size of workspaces in the CheCluster custom resource.

This enhancement makes it easier for administrators to add a Git provider’s self-signed certificate in OpenShift Dev Spaces. See the steps to do so in Git with self-signed certificates.

With this update, administrators can enable container builds by setting devEnvironments.disableContainerBuildCapabilities: true in the CheCluster custom resource. This enables users to run podman build on any workspace. Adding the attribute controller.devfile.io/scc: container-build in a devfile is no longer required.

With this update, OpenShift Dev Spaces displays a warning for users in the Creating a workspace page that the devfile in the remote Git repository is invalid. The warning offers users two options: Continue with the default devfile or Reload. This feature is particularly useful when a user is editing and testing a devfile.

With this update, OpenShift Dev Spaces supports subdomain isolation for GitHub Enterprise Server customers. Administrators can enable subdomain isolation in the CheCluster custom resource:

spec:
  gitServices:
    github:
      - endpoint: 'https://github.com'
        secretName: github-oauth-config
        disableSubdomainIsolation: true