Sprint release 1.36

[harshad16]

Hello, Workbench Devs!

This Issue would be used for the current sprint cycle release.
By the end of the sprint cycle, we will consolidate the information of features and fixes in this issue.

[harshad16]

We have completed the release for sprint 1.36 🎉 🎊 🥳

Notable Changes

This release brings several noteworthy changes and improvements. Here's a summary of what you can expect:

• VS-Code & RStudio: User can directly use the kustomize base to deploy vscode and Rstudio from this release. With OpenDatahub 2.4, the vscode and rstudio, were directly available on OOTB workbench. With this developer can deploy vscode and rstudio along with all the other OOTB on developer mode.

  • Move vscode and r-studio to the base layer in ODH #300

• VS-Code: With this release, the user can utilize the code-server built on top of the UBI9 image.
  Users can use the images with the prefix codeserver-ubi9 (ex:codeserver-ubi9-python-3.9-20231116-271208a) from the image registry to utilize UBI9 base codeserver.

  • Rebase VSCode to UBI9 instead on C9S #319.

• Annotation: image-tag-outdated: The user can use the annotation image-tag-outdated in the imagestream, to disable the tag from showing up in the Opendatahub Dashboard. This feature can be used in the upcoming Opendatahub version 2.5. With the older image would be disabled from selection and only be available for run in pre-existing workbenches.

  • Enhancing Support for Older OOTB Images: Retention and Deprecation Flagging #154
  • feature: Included annotation to the outdated image tags #315

• Annotation: build-info: With next release imagestream will have associated commit id added as annotations, so users can differentiate directly from imagestream, instead of looking up the images.

  • adding build commit info annotations in imagestream #307

• Runtime-images: The base runtime-images supplied from the notebooks for Elyra pipeline, are adjusted to have all the elyra based-python package requirements to be pre-installed in them. The package no longer be installed during the runtime.

  • Can Elyra DS pipelines work at all in Disconnected Environments? #127 #202
  • feature: install package directly on runtime images #330

Improvements and Bug Fixes
We've addressed several critical issues and bugs that were affecting the performance and usability of our notebooks. These fixes enhance the overall stability and functionality of our notebooks as listed below.

• Elyra validate : The elyra-validate command is fixed, in past version it was failing to validate pipeline if they contained pipeline properties.

  • [Bug] elyra-pipeline validate CLI command fails for pipelines with parameters and default properties  #257
  • fix: add workaround patch for elyra validate #324

• jupyterlab notification disabled: The jupyterlab notification pop-up is now disabled.

  • feature: Included annotation to the outdated image tags #315