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What's new in Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, based on Kubernetes 1.31 and CRI-O 1.31 releases, is now Generally Available (GA).
Augment the Developer experience
With the Developer Perspective in OpenShift Console, you can now add color to Tekton Pipelines logs for both PipelineRun & TaskRun logs making the logs easier to view. With a single click, import YAML from OpenShift Lightspeed into the OpenShift UI Editor. In addition, dark and light mode support has been added to the YAML Editor. Knative Event catalog is now available to discover different event types.
Plus, you can create an AI ChatBot in OpenShift with the new AI Sample that is deployed via Helm and comes with a full continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and can be run on clusters without a GPU.
Red Hat Developer Hub, based on the Backstage project, provides software templates and plugins for OpenShift deployments, access to pipeline runs, viewing clusters from OCM, and more. Red Hat Developer Hub 1.4, based on Backstage project 1.32.6, has added support for OpenShift Dedicated, added middleware functions to the RootHttpRouter, and support for the installation on GKE (in addition to OpenShift, AKS, and EKS). There is now a Notification plugin, support for OpenTelemetry to monitor your environment, and an example AI template for OpenShift. The Red Hat Developer Hub is now integrated with the Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.15 making it easier to create new Quarkus applications. For an in-depth review of all of the latest features, including updates for plug-ins and templates, see What's new in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.4.
Podman Desktop 1.15 with the BootC extension 1.6 has added support for events on resources (services, pods, and nodes) to keep track of what is happening in a cluster. In addition, it has a revamped task manager for testing and lets you connect directly to your Podman machine via Podman Desktop with SSH access, as well as converts a standard container image to a fully bootable operating system (OS) on a USB stick with BootC. To learn more, refer to the Podman Desktop release notes.
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.17, based on Eclipse Che 7.92, adds an option to deploy operands (such as gateway and dashboard) managed by the operator on specific cluster nodes using the dedicated nodeSelector and tolerations properties. You can now specify the list of allowed sources based on which Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) can be started using the dedicated optional parameter allowedSources. You can also assign endpoint annotations in the devfile. And you can restrict the total number of ‘Running’ workspaces on a cluster using the maxNumberOfRunningWorkspacesPerCluster CheCluster CR property.
Release 3.18, based on Eclipse Che 7.95, adds the ability to configure two Gitlab OAuth providers on a single Dev Spaces instance which is helpful when developers are working with codebases hosted on GitLab both in the cloud and on-premises. You can now also create or import the .gitconfig file from the User Dashboard no matter what authentication method is used on the cluster. Please see the release notes to discover all of the updates.
Get started with Red Hat OpenShift 4.18
To get started with Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, try the Developer Sandbox. It provides free access to a shared OpenShift cluster for your development needs without requiring you to set up and configure an OpenShift cluster. Once you sign up, learn more about OpenShift and Kubernetes through hands-on interactive learning content. To see a comprehensive list of all new features, see OpenShift 4.18 release notes.
You can also explore OpenShift Platform capabilities and try it for the cloud footprint of your choice.
