CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

A curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes in Gitpod's default workspace images.

2026-02-12

• Introduce gitpod/workspace-node-24 and gitpod/workspace-node-25
• Bump gitpod/workspace-node-lts and gitpod/workspace-full to Node.js 24
• Bump gitpod/workspace-node to Node.js 25

2026-01-20

• Remove gitpod/workspace-python-3.9 (Python 3.9 reached EOL October 2025)
• Bump gitpod/workspace-python and gitpod/workspace-full to Python 3.13
• Bump pyenv to v2.6.20
• Bump gitpod/workspace-yugabytedb images to Python 3.10

2025-09-30

• Introduce workspace-java-25

2025-05-26

• Bump Rust to 1.87.0

2025-04-16

• Bump Rust to 1.86.0

2025-03-14

• Bump Go to 1.24.1

2025-02-24

• Bump Rust to 1.85.0

2025-01-27

• Bump Bun to 1.2

2025-01-13 🎆

• Bump Rust to 1.84.0

2024-12-01

• Bump Rust to 1.83.0

2024-14-11

• Bump Docker in base image to 27.3.1

2024-11-11

• Introduce workspace-java-23

2024-10-31 🎃

• Bump the workspace-node-lts image to Node 22.11.0
• Bump the workspace-node image to Node 23.1.0
• Introduce workspace-node-23

2024-10-22

• Deprecate workspace-python-3.8
• Introduce workspace-python-3.13

2024-10-21

• Bump Rust to 1.82.0

2024-09-09

• Remove dotnet 7 as a maintained image, it is no longer supported. Users requiring dotnet 7 are encouraged to do manage a custom image instead.

2024-08-15

• Bump Go to 1.23.0

2024-08-06

• Introduce workspace-node-20 and workspace-node-22
• Deprecate workspace-node-21 since it has reached EoL

2024-07-01

• Bump Clang to 18 and enable ASAN Support.

2024-06-17

• Bump Rust to 1.79.0

2024-05-06

• Bump Rust to 1.78.0
• Introduce workspace-java-21

2024-04-29

• Temporarily pin the version of Docker. Refer to 19662 for more detail.

2024-04-10

• Deprecate gitpod/workspace-ruby-3.0

2024-04-03

• Bump Bun to 1.1.0

2024-03-27

• Bump Rust to 1.77.0

2024-02-11

• Bump Go to 1.22.0

2024-02-09

• Bump Rust to 1.76.0

2024-01-09

• Bump Rust to 1.75.0

2024-01-08

• Bump nix to 2.19.2
• Introduce workspace-ruby-3.3
• Bump the Ruby version in workspace-ruby-3.3

2024-01-04

• Bump docker-compose to 2.23.3

2024-01-03

• Bump workspace-dotnet to 8.0
• Introduce workspace-dotnet-6, workspace-dotnet-7 and workspace-dotnet-8

2023-12-12

• Bump Rust to 1.74.1
• Bump Go 1.21 to 1.21.5
• Bump Python 3.12 to 3.12.1

2023-10-19

• Node 20 replaces Node 18 as the current LTS
• Introduce Node 21.0.0 in workspace-node
• Introduce workspace-node-18 for those, who aren't ready to upgrade just yet

2023-10-12

• Reintroduce gitpod/workspace-python-3.10, gitpod/workspace-python-3.9 and gitpod/workspace-python-3.8

2023-10-09

• Bump Rust to 1.73.0
• Upgrade Clang to 17.0.2

2023-10-06

• Deprecate gitpod/workspace-python-3.10
• Introduce gitpod/workspace-python-3.12
• Bump default Python version in workspace:full to 3.12.0

2023-10-02

• For workspace-node, deprecate Node 19 in favor of Node 20

2023-09-18

• Bump Rust to 1.72.0

2023-09-15

• Bump the default Go version in all images to 1.21
• Bump Go 1.21 to 1.21.1

2023-07-11

• Bump Go 1.20 to 1.20.6 and Go 1.19 to 1.19.11

2022-02-01

• Release workspace-full latest tag built using dazzle v2
• Upgrade to dazzle v2 & use GitHub Actions for build

2021-08-01

• Bump Go version to 1.16.6
• Bump rust to 1.54.0
• Bump node.js to v14.17.4
• Bump docker-compose to 1.29.2
• Add golangci-lint
• Add ripgrep
• Add cargo-workspaces to cargo utils
• Add git-lfs

2021-06-04

• Bump Go version to 1.16.5
• Bump nvm.sh to v0.38.0
• Introduce pre-commit checks
• Run shellcheck in shell scripts

2020-06-03

• Bump Node.js version following a security alert: gitpod-io/workspace-images#243

2020-06-02

• Upgrade all Go tools to get the latest gopls, and remove broken golangci-lint gitpod-io/workspace-images#237
• Make Python 3 the default python version (use pyenv local 2.7.17 to go back to Python 2) gitpod-io/workspace-images#214

2020-05-12

• Downgrade Ruby 2.7.1 → 2.6.6 (because Solargraph doesn't support latest Bundler 2.1.4 yet) e9281a20

2020-05-08

• Upgrade to Rust 1.43.1 gitpod-io/workspace-images#230
• Fix the persistence of Ruby gems in /workspace/.rvm with a custom .rvmrc gitpod-io/workspace-images#223
• Upgrade RVM's Ruby from 2.5 → 2.5.8 and 2.6 → 2.7.1 gitpod-io/workspace-images#213

2020-05-02

• Fix Ubuntu 20.04 based gitpod/workspace-dotnet and gitpod/workspace-dotnet-vnc images by installing .NET Core SDK 3.1 binaries gitpod-io/workspace-images#218

2020-04-29

• Best practice: Don't stay as USER root in gitpod/workspace-full-vnc gitpod-io/workspace-images#215
• Add bash auto-completion for cargo gitpod-io/workspace-images#216

2020-04-21

• Upgrade Pyenv's Python from 3.7.7 → 3.8.2 gitpod-io/workspace-images#212
• Drop support of .NET 2.2, because it reached end-of-life on 2019-12-23

2020-04-17

• Fix PostgreSQL image and pin to PostgreSQL version 12 gitpod-io/workspace-images#209
• Upgrade Rust 1.41.1 → 1.42.0 gitpod-io/workspace-images#207
• Fix MySQL image by updating mysql.cnf for MySQL 8, fixes gitpod-io/gitpod#1399

2020-04-15

• Upgrade from Ubuntu 19.04 → Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, because 19.04 reached end-of-life and all its apt packages got deleted gitpod-io/gitpod#1398
• Upgrade Java 11.0.5.fx-zulu → 11.0.6.fx-zulu

2020-04-06

• Make noVNC (virtual desktop) automatically reconnect if the connection is dropped, and enable noVNC toolbar gitpod-io/workspace-images#170

2020-03-30

• Upgrade Node.js from v10 → v12 LTS (to pin a specific version, see this workaround)

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