Workspaces Release Notes: 3.72
Summary
We have released our Network Restricted Workspaces. This feature will allow administrators to lock a workspace down so that it can only be accessed from a specific IP address.
We have also introduced the new look Airlock panel. This should be easy to use and will guide users through the processes of exporting data from their workspaces.
We have also changed the default program used for opening office formatted documents; these will now open in Collabora by default.
Released features
| Feature | Type | Jira key | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Collabora default editor for all office file types. | Enhancement | AT-2265 | Files with office file types (except CSV and TXT) now open in Collabra when launched with the default action from the file list |
| Install blobfuse on linux VM and automatically mount to workspace storage blob container | Enhancement | XAP-27916 | New workspace ubuntu VMs have workspace blob storage mounted to ~/blobs folder |
| user should be presented with a notification modal in their workspace if a VM storage is at 90% capacity. | Enhancement | XAP-27802 | Users of new Linux desktop VM’s will now be alerted when the storage reaches 90% of its capacity |
| Upgrade gitea to 12.0.0 failed | Enhancement | XAP-28062 | Gitea has been upgraded to be installed using latest helm version (12.0.0) from 11.0.1 |
| Ensure hub and tenant admins get permission to update network filters | Enhancement | XAP-28055 | Tenant administrators can add network filter to a workspace to restrict the access only from a defined network IP address range. If a member of the workspace is outside of the IP range when accessing it, they will be denied access. |
| When updating the network filter, we should have a warning that existing API upload tokens not matching the filter will be deleted | Enhancement | XAP-28048 | We have added warning when changing network filters in a workspace to warn users that any upload tokens not matching the new filters will be deleted. |
| Remove WIP for Airlock panel | Enhancement | XAP-28039 | We are now able to introduce our new airlock request panel. Users trying to export data or files will now see the new view when doing so. |
| Provide option to run file with the directory of the file as the current working directory | Enhancement | XAP-28121 | Enhancement to run in background:- The working directory can now be switched to the directory of the file and when running R processes the xaputils library will be loaded by default to match the behaviour of the R console. |
| Ensure we log audit event for background file execution | Enhancement | XAP-27271 | Minor audit enhancement: Background jobs will now generate events when they start and stop |