Executive Summary

This release period focused on enhancing the user experience, improving platform observability, and enabling new features around workspace management and managed services. Key areas of focus included a significant revamp of the IDE with new components, improvements to platform observability through enhanced monitoring and logging, and the introduction of a managed PostgreSQL service. Accessibility was another high priority, with numerous fixes implemented throughout the platform.

Deprecations

None

Features

IDE Enhancements

• React-Based IDE: A significant shift towards React components in the IDE, enabling new features and improved performance. This included enabling the new Git Panel, Git status indicators on file tabs, and the ability to drag and drop tabs.
• File Tree: Introduced file tree with context menu options, file creation, renaming, and drag-and-drop functionality.
• Code Editor:  Enhanced the code editor with theming support, loading animations, and a component for improved remote development (VSCode Server integration).
• Terminal: Revamped the terminal experience with improved responsiveness and improved stability. Terminal sync has also been added.

Workspace Management

• Workspace Table: Complete refactoring of the workspace table, adding new & customizable columns such as owner and uptime, column sorting, and a new flyout including an update workspace modal.
• Create Workspace Dialog: A redesigned dialog for creating workspaces making it more intuitive to get started.

Integrated Platform Observability (O11y)

• O11y Platform: Improved workspace observability with new features that allow configuring settings for Observability.
• Log & Request Browsers: Introduced log and request browsers within the IDE, providing filtering and navigation capabilities for debugging and monitoring. This includes navigation from trace to corresponding logs.
• Monitoring charts: Introduced interactive monitoring charts including services and replica filters and time control.
• Prometheus remote cluster monitoring: Added ability to forward metrics from distributed clusters to a central monitoring & alerting stack with optional VPN tunnel configuration.

Managed Services

• PostgreSQL Operator-Based Managed Service: Introduced a new managed PostgreSQL service
• Managed Services Catalog: Introduced Managed Services Catalog Page
• Managed Services Table: Added a managed services table with actions, creator column and settings fly-out.
• Managed Services Create flow: Introduced a managed services create dialog

User Management

• User Settings Page: Created a new user settings page with profile information, API key management, and account deletion options. OAuth callback endpoint redirects to new /user/connection page.
• Team Settings: UI implementation and improved team settings functionality
• Account Deletion: Implemented the user account deletion functionality with a 7-day grace period and associated cleanup tasks, adding dialogs for account deletion on user settings page.

Landscape Configuration

• Landscape Config Editor: Improved UI with larger and more complex projects in mind
• Service Configuration: More intuitive way to access advanced service configuration like ports and private/public routing 

Other Features

• VPN Page: Improved user flow for configuring and updating VPN connections and workload connections.

Fixes & Improvements

• Accessibility (A11y): Over 150 accessibility fixes were implemented, covering various aspects of the platform, including:
  • Improved form field labels and error message handling
  • Meaningful document titles and headings
  • Alternative texts for graphics and objects
  • Fixing contrast issues and keyboard navigation
• Security Fixes: Several security-related updates were implemented, including:
  • Hardening the Postgres Managed-Service Backend
  • Switching away from bitnamiLegacy images 
  • Upgrading packages to fix security vulnerabilities
  • Implementing reCaptcha v3
• Stability Improvements: Various bug fixes and stability improvements were made across different components, including:
  • Fixes for workspace deployment and routing edge cases
  • Improved error handling in search functionality
  • Improved resource management and other performance optimizations (i.e. resource monitoring UI in large landscapes)