Chapter 2. Notable enhancements

Before this update, CodeReady Workspaces contained JavaEE dependencies. With this update, CodeReady Workspaces contains JakartaEE dependencies.

With this update, on a CodeReady Workspaces instance with Dev Workspace engine, users can specify their choices of an editor with the che-editor factory link parameter. For example, https://codeready-<openshift_deployment_name>.<domain_name>#<repository-url>?che-editor=eclipse/che&#45;theia/latest is to select Che-Theia.

This enhancement standardizes and simplifies configuration of Git hosting services (GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket) for CodeReady Workspaces workspaces, with OpenShift secrets and OAuth.

New CodeReady Workspaces deployments use PostgreSQL 13. Before this update, CodeReady Workspaces deployments were using PostgreSQL 9.6. PostgreSQL 9.6 is deprecated. Migrate deployments created by an earlier version of CodeReady Workspaces. See: Migrating from PostgreSQL 9 to PostgreSQL 13.

With this update, when using the Dev Workspace engine, you can specify the devfile path when creating a workspace from a URL. Use the devfilePath parameter. It enables the coexistence of two devfiles in the same repository, to support the version 1 to version 2 migration.

Before this update, when using the Dev Workspace engine, CodeReady Workspaces workspaces were missing required configuration settings, such as proxy or self-signed certificates. With this update, the settings stored by the CodeReady Workspaces server are propagated to the workspaces.

With this update, CodeReady Workspaces supports creating workspaces from a devfile version 2 on all workspace engines. Before this update, using the Dev Workspace engine was required.

With this update, CodeReady Workspaces workspaces support the Git Large File Storage (LFS) extension.

The OpenShift Connector extension for Visual Studio Code has been upgraded to version 0.2.11.

Before this update, the CodeReady Workspaces operator crashed with an Out Of Memory (OOM) error in OpenShift clusters with multiple projects. With this update, the memory limit is sufficient.