Workspaces Release Notes: 4.1

First released: 29th September 2025

Summary

This release includes some improvements to the new Office editing experience as well as some other small bug fixes and improvements.

Released features

FeatureTypeJira keySummary
Add ability to associate apps to workspaces via APIEnhancementAT-2477

API only: users with Workspace.WriteApps permission can now manage which apps are associated with a workspace

Enable Collabora auto save on exitEnhancement AT-2557

When working in a Collabora app, a user’s changes will now automatically be saved when they exit the app

Collabora Draw app icon not showing correctlyBugFix AT-2453

We have fixed a bug where a missing image icon is shown in the draw app in some browsers

Remove R 4.1.1, set 4.5.1 as defaultEnhancement AT-2457

R 4.1.1 is no longer available and R 4.3.2 (the former default version for consoles and Shiny apps) is deprecated, meaning it will be removed next, following the DRE R Maintenance Policy. This only affects R consoles and Shiny apps. RStudio and Jupyter Notebook are unaffected.

"Open as Text" no longer an option for plain text file typesBugFix XAP-28593

We have fixed a bug where some users could not open .txt files in the workspaces native editor. This option is again available via the context menu on files

can create a db table without providing a schema - Helper Text stating mandatory is wrongBugFixXAP-28539

We have updated some helper text in the data table creation wizard to make clearer which fields are mandatory

When converting a CSV to database table with a matching XML file column names are forced to lowercaseBugFixXAP-28592

We have fixed a small bug in the data table creation wizard.