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November 12, 2021

Improved workspace startup times

Speeeed 🚀! When you start a new workspace, we changed how we clone your repository. Going forward, we have a two step approach:

  1. Clone the most recent commit only (with the depth=1 git flag)
  2. About ten seconds later, we start to fetch 20 additional commits

Thanks to this, we let you start your work sooner while we fetch a few more commits. You can find the details of this change in the #6464 pull request.

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Fixes and improvements

  • #6582 - Update VS Code Web to 1.62.0 @corneliusludmann's avatar on GitHub @jeanp413's avatar on GitHub
  • #6462 - [ws-proxy] Decouple ws-proxy from ws-manager @JanKoehnlein's avatar on GitHub @akosyakov's avatar on GitHub @aledbf's avatar on GitHub @corneliusludmann's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub @geropl's avatar on GitHub
  • #6546 - Prebuilds can run for GitLab subgroup projects. @JanKoehnlein's avatar on GitHub @gtsiolis's avatar on GitHub @jldec's avatar on GitHub @laushinka's avatar on GitHub @svenefftinge's avatar on GitHub
  • #6577 - Preserve team scope in dashboard @gtsiolis's avatar on GitHub @laushinka's avatar on GitHub
  • #6505 - Open up JetBrains desktop IDE feature (BETA) for all users @corneliusludmann's avatar on GitHub @laushinka's avatar on GitHub
  • #6636 - GCP object storage bugfixes @MrSimonEmms's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub
  • #6621 - Allow use of external container registry @MrSimonEmms's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub
  • #6606 - Add support for GCP CloudSQL @MrSimonEmms's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub
  • #6591 - Create config map to allow uninstallation of app @MrSimonEmms's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub
  • #6144 - make “snapshots” more reliable @JanKoehnlein's avatar on GitHub @akosyakov's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub @geropl's avatar on GitHub @gtsiolis's avatar on GitHub @shaal's avatar on GitHub
  • #6376 - New GitLab projects will have a slugified Project url @AlexTugarev's avatar on GitHub @JanKoehnlein's avatar on GitHub @gtsiolis's avatar on GitHub @jldec's avatar on GitHub @laushinka's avatar on GitHub
  • #6584 - allow img-builder ingress from server @MrSimonEmms's avatar on GitHub @csweichel's avatar on GitHub