Release 1.73

[filiptronicek]

Endgame: microsoft/vscode#164400
Release: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.73.0

MS release date: 2022/11/02

DRI: @filiptronicek @mustard-mh
Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/[1.xx]
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/[1.xx] release/[1.xx]
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/[1.xx]
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/[1.xx] gp-code/release/[1.xx]
    • Turn off experimental feature flags for PortsView in gitpod-web - review and cherry-pick Remove RemoteExplorer openvscode-server#456
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point to the release branches
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/1b60a53a1a34b61dfb41ca13b65bfbad4115bda4/.github/workflows/insiders-gp.yml#L19
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/1b60a53a1a34b61dfb41ca13b65bfbad4115bda4/.github/workflows/insiders.yml#L19

  • gitpod/.github/workflows/code-nightly.yml

    Line 34 in 6c4c22c

    headCommit=$(curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.VERSION.sha' https://api.github.com/repos/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/commits/gp-code/main)

• Port fixes from release/[1.xx] to main if any
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point back to the main and gp-code/main branches
• Monitor for recovery releases and provide corresponding release in Gitpod and OpenVSCode if necessary

For each minor / patch release

Recovery releases:

• 1.73.1 [milestone]

• Create and merge a PR in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod to generate a stable image for VS Code Update Insiders to a release commit of 1.73 #14342

  • Update codeCommit inside of https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/blob/main/WORKSPACE.yaml with the SHA of the tip of the gp-code/release/{VERSION} branch
  • Use insider.md as a PR template

• Create and merge PR in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod updating VS Code stable image tags to the image generated in the previous step (the commit can be found in the resulting Werft job) Update stable to 1.73 #14371

  • Update CodeIDEImageStableVersion in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/blob/main/install/installer/pkg/components/workspace/ide/constants.go
  • After updating the file, execute cd install/installer/; make generateRenderTests
  • Use stable.md as a PR template

• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable (How to deploy in Notion)

• Release OpenVSCode Server

[mustard-mh]

PR gitpod-io/openvscode-server#456 to remove experimental flag and RemoteExplorer. Needs review and cherry-pick

[mustard-mh]

Added a commit gitpod-io/openvscode-server@b60c26a to fix error message in issue #14222

Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'code' in null

cc @jeanp413

[akosyakov]

can be closed?

[filiptronicek]

@akosyakov I think there may be some recovery releases that would go under this issue.