v0.6.0

v0.6.0 - IDEs, Docs and Tauri v2

It’s been quite a while since we’ve last released a new minor release, in fact it’s been almost a year since the release of 0.5.0 at January 30th. We’ve worked on tons of fixes and small improvements ever since and will continue to work hard to support your workflow with devcontainers.

Before we go into new features we want to take a moment to thank everyone using DevPod and specially the people reporting problems in the GitHub Issues and our Slack community. Without your curiosity, engagement and feedback DevPod would not be possible.

Thank you!

More IDEs

Everyone has their favourite way of working and we want to enable as many people as possible to take advantage of devcontainers by bringing them to their existing workflow. For this reason we’ve added 6 new experimental IDEs (and a stable one) to choose from:

1. Cursor - a highly requested, AI first editor
2. Zed - one of the coolest new IDE projects we’ve come across, from the creators of Atom and Treesitter
3. VSCodium - community supported FOSS distribution of VSCode without Microsoft licenses
4. Positron - a next generation data science IDE from the makers of R Studio. They currently don’t publish ARM builds so make sure your provider target architecture is x86-64
5. Marimo - modern, reactive python notebooks you can fearlessly check into git
6. Jupyter Desktop - this is just a little bonus on top for everyone who prefers Desktop apps over pure web applications. We surely are fans of it and encourage you to try it as well
7. Dataspell - extending our support of the full JetBrains suite of products

“How it works” documentation

Developers are curious by nature and want to know how their tools work - we do, too! This is why @bkneis took the time to write a dedicated architecture section in the docs: https://devpod.sh/docs/how-it-works/overview

Let us know if this is helpful and what you’re missing from the overall picture.

Experimental per-user installer for Windows

Not everybody has admin permissions on their machine and DevPod is especially useful in these situations to help you escape into your safe devcontainer space where you can install python packages to your hearts content.

Unless you have a good relationship with your IT department installing DevPod on locked down Windows machines was a pain so far. With this version we’re adding experimental (!) support for a per-user installer: https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/download/v0.6.0/DevPod_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe

A word of caution though: Auto updates currently don’t work with this installer because we need. to change the upgrade process to support MSI and NSIS based installations side by side.

More Linux installers (?)

We’ve upgraded DevPod Desktop to Tauri v2, a secure, rust based electron alternative.

They’ve worked hard to support more ways of distributing desktop apps on Linux and we intend to take advantage of this. Tell us your favourite way of installing packages on Linux in the GitHub issues (…but check for duplicates first please).

New Contributors

• @PRTTMPRPHT made their first contribution in #1378

Full Changelog: v0.5.22...v0.6.0

v0.6.0-alpha.2

What's Changed

• fix(cli): skip deprecated suboptions when upgrading a provider tied to a pro instance by @pascalbreuninger in #1385
• fix(desktop): show provider options for workspaces with old pro provider by @pascalbreuninger in #1386

Full Changelog: v0.6.0-alpha.1...v0.6.0-alpha.2

v0.6.0-alpha.1

What's Changed

• fix: Ensure scroll areas of terminals are fit to the right size on in… by @PRTTMPRPHT in #1378
• Use sleepmode.loft.sh/last-activity instead of sleep mode config when disabled by @bkneis in #1377
• chore(cd): skip uploading nsis updater artifacts, need to adjust auto updates to support both msi and nsis; add .exe to nsis installer by @pascalbreuninger in #1376
• fix: Prevent terminal logs for actions from being rendered twice on s… by @PRTTMPRPHT in #1380
• Implement experimental support for codium by @bkneis in #1348
• Implement experimental support for data spell by @bkneis in #1347
• fix(cli): show select input for interactive pro workspace creation by @pascalbreuninger in #1381
• Implement experimental support for zed by @bkneis in #1341
• fix/POD 1050 upgrade existing pro worksapces by @pascalbreuninger in #1379
• feat(desktop): add new experimental IDEs (marimo, zed, VSCodium, positron, jupyter desktop, dataspell) by @pascalbreuninger in #1382

New Contributors

• @PRTTMPRPHT made their first contribution in #1378

Full Changelog: v0.6.0-alpha.0...v0.6.0-alpha.1

v0.6.0-alpha.0

What's Changed

• Fix doc links by @bkneis in #1359
• feat: Add new DevPod Desktop for Pro flow; refactor Pro CLI usage by @pascalbreuninger in #1360
• chore(cd): remove enable-updater feature from build as it's built in … by @pascalbreuninger in #1363
• license(DevPod): Updated OSS licenses by @loft-bot in #1361
• chore/tauri linux config by @pascalbreuninger in #1364
• chore(cd): add new tauri v2 env var by @pascalbreuninger in #1365
• chore(cd): add new tauri update signer private key env var; install required additional dependencies on ubuntu; bump tauri github action by @pascalbreuninger in #1368
• chore(cd): update tauri linux build dependencies by @pascalbreuninger in #1369
• chore(cd): update tauri linux build dependencies by @pascalbreuninger in #1370
• chore(cd): update linux build output paths by @pascalbreuninger in #1372
• fix(cd): windows tauri 2.0 by @pascalbreuninger in #1373
• Fix/windows build pipeline by @pascalbreuninger in #1374

Full Changelog: v0.5.22...v0.6.0-alpha.0

v0.5.22

What's Changed

• POD-919: Use correct file permission for generated .devcontainer.json by @bkneis in #1294
• chore(cli): report platform access setup as debug, not error by @pascalbreuninger in #1296
• Update docker compose to 2.2.0 by @bkneis in #1305
• Use errorf instead of debug log level by @bkneis in #1297
• POD-944 | Pass provided git credentials to crane by @janekbaraniewski in #1298
• license(DevPod): Updated OSS licenses by @loft-bot in #1308
• Support parsing "other" property from mounts by @gjhenrique in #1306
• Add send-env and set-env options to ssh command by @aacebedo in #1288
• Improve command line help by @aacebedo in #1300
• POD-894: Add PUML diagrams to docs by @bkneis in #1311
• Add troubleshooting page by @bkneis in #1319
• fix(desktop): print warning if we can't parse custom protocol instead of showing error in UI by @pascalbreuninger in #1320
• Update docs by @bkneis in #1321
• fix(gpg): use symlink when setting up the gpg socket in the workspace instead of hardlink by @pascalbreuninger in #1322
• Don't hardcode root when running lifecycle scripts by @nrontsis in #1317
• Fix log entry when using crane in workspace up by @janekbaraniewski in #1330
• fix(dockerless): Only listen to kaniko stdout if --debug is set. by @pascalbreuninger in #1327
• Fix/gpg agent forwarding arg list by @pascalbreuninger in #1336
• Fix/gpg agent forwarding arg list by @pascalbreuninger in #1338
• Add github workflow to mark issues as stale then delete after 2 months by @bkneis in #1340
• Fix prebuilds for docker compose by @bkneis in #1339
• Implemement .devpodignore by @bkneis in #1337
• Implement UpdateRemoteUserID handling by @aacebedo in #1287
• Wrap devpodignore with nil check on workspace by @bkneis in #1349

New Contributors

• @gjhenrique made their first contribution in #1306
• @nrontsis made their first contribution in #1317

Full Changelog: v0.5.21...v0.5.22

v0.5.21

What's Changed

• fix: small typo in dotfiles-in-a-workspace.mdx by @Piotr1215 in #1258
• fix(e2e): up by @pascalbreuninger in #1260
• chore(desktop): hide update button for pro provider by @pascalbreuninger in #1277
• fix(cli): set term env var based on host env var; request pty intitially with host terminal dimensions by @pascalbreuninger in #1276
• Use correct file permission by @bkneis in #1273
• fix: fix wrong parameter order by @cuishuang in #1270
• Allow reuse-values to be specified by CLI params by @bkneis in #1268
• Sort release versions according to semver by @manel-bc in #1265
• Fix PR references by @bkneis in #1262
• Log and wrap error when setting up loft platform by @bkneis in #1266
• feat/POD 884 docker credential forwarding by @pascalbreuninger in #1282
• POD-898 | Update loft api -> 4.1.0-alpha.13 by @janekbaraniewski in #1285

New Contributors

• @Piotr1215 made their first contribution in #1258
• @cuishuang made their first contribution in #1270
• @manel-bc made their first contribution in #1265

Full Changelog: v0.5.20...v0.5.21

v0.5.21-alpha.0

What's Changed

• fix: small typo in dotfiles-in-a-workspace.mdx by @Piotr1215 in #1258
• fix(e2e): up by @pascalbreuninger in #1260
• chore(desktop): hide update button for pro provider by @pascalbreuninger in #1277
• fix(cli): set term env var based on host env var; request pty intitially with host terminal dimensions by @pascalbreuninger in #1276
• Use correct file permission by @bkneis in #1273
• fix: fix wrong parameter order by @cuishuang in #1270
• Allow reuse-values to be specified by CLI params by @bkneis in #1268
• Sort release versions according to semver by @manel-bc in #1265
• Fix PR references by @bkneis in #1262
• Log and wrap error when setting up loft platform by @bkneis in #1266
• feat/POD 884 docker credential forwarding by @pascalbreuninger in #1282

New Contributors

• @Piotr1215 made their first contribution in #1258
• @cuishuang made their first contribution in #1270
• @manel-bc made their first contribution in #1265

Full Changelog: v0.5.20...v0.5.21-alpha.0

v0.5.20

What's Changed

• Add to devpod pro add cluster command usage by @janekbaraniewski in #1202
• POD-638 | Automatically auth to platform for pro users by @janekbaraniewski in #1194
• POD-755: Fix workspace ID when branch is specified by @bkneis in #1205
• fix(desktop): change provider options by @pascalbreuninger in #1209
• fix(cli): in-cluster auth by @pascalbreuninger in #1207
• fix(cli): ssh based auth with external key by @pascalbreuninger in #1208
• license(DevPod): Updated OSS licenses by @loft-bot in #1212
• POD-771: Check response code is successful when installing intilliJ based IDE by @bkneis in #1213
• POD-758: Allow user to specify fleet version by @bkneis in #1211
• docs: Add section for workspace resets by @pascalbreuninger in #1215
• Bump golangci-lint-action v3 -> v6 and version to 1.60.1 by @janekbaraniewski in #1220
• POD-769: Check build target exists in Dockerfile by @bkneis in #1218
• POD-768 | Expose devcontainer config util funcs in package by @janekbaraniewski in #1219
• fix(pro): delete ownded workspace by @pascalbreuninger in #1227
• POD-768 | Update devcontainer helper funcs by @janekbaraniewski in #1226
• fix(pro): import non-versioned workspace template by @pascalbreuninger in #1228
• POD-819: Add --gpus=all if host requirments contain GPU by @bkneis in #1229
• POD-763: Expose inject timeout as contect config and add to agent workspace info by @bkneis in #1217
• POD-779 | Initial integration of devpod-crane by @janekbaraniewski in #1230
• fix: Adds support for azure devops based branch, commit and subpath qualifiers on the repository string by @pascalbreuninger in #1231
• fix/POD 837 remove fallback cloning by @pascalbreuninger in #1232
• feat(desktop): Display template name in workspace card. Shows template options on hover by @pascalbreuninger in #1236
• fix(cli): check $SHELL env var if we can't find user shell in passwd by @pascalbreuninger in #1239
• Use fullDownloadURL for clarity in downloadAgentLocally function by @JochenMan in #1241
• Skip hidden files by @bkneis in #1243
• feat: Add Cursor as experimental IDE, enabled by default. by @pascalbreuninger in #1237
• POD-821 | Support file:// ulr pattern when normalizing repo URL by @janekbaraniewski in #1246
• POD-854 | Decouple pulling devcontainer spec from pulling project by @janekbaraniewski in #1244
• fix(cli): skip provider upgrade check if we do not find a pro instance by @pascalbreuninger in #1248
• feat(desktop): Add context settings to toggle docker/git credential forwarding behaviour for default context from desktop app by @pascalbreuninger in #1251
• Pod 823/cache by @bkneis in #1245
• fix(cli): add --devpod-home to ssh config by @pascalbreuninger in #1252
• POD-859 | Use Environment Templates from Pro by @janekbaraniewski in #1253

New Contributors

• @bkneis made their first contribution in #1205
• @JochenMan made their first contribution in #1241

Full Changelog: v0.5.19...v0.5.20

v0.5.20-alpha.4

What's Changed

• feat(desktop): Display template name in workspace card. Shows template options on hover by @pascalbreuninger in #1236
• fix(cli): check $SHELL env var if we can't find user shell in passwd by @pascalbreuninger in #1239
• Use fullDownloadURL for clarity in downloadAgentLocally function by @JochenMan in #1241
• Skip hidden files by @bkneis in #1243
• feat: Add Cursor as experimental IDE, enabled by default. by @pascalbreuninger in #1237
• POD-821 | Support file:// ulr pattern when normalizing repo URL by @janekbaraniewski in #1246
• POD-854 | Decouple pulling devcontainer spec from pulling project by @janekbaraniewski in #1244

New Contributors

• @JochenMan made their first contribution in #1241

Full Changelog: v0.5.20-alpha.3...v0.5.20-alpha.4

v0.5.20-alpha.3

What's Changed

• fix: Adds support for azure devops based branch, commit and subpath qualifiers on the repository string by @pascalbreuninger in #1231
• fix/POD 837 remove fallback cloning by @pascalbreuninger in #1232

Full Changelog: v0.5.20-alpha.2...v0.5.20-alpha.3