Gitpod VS Code Browser 1.76

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Endgames:

• February 2023 Endgame microsoft/vscode#174828
• February 2023 Recovery 1 Endgame microsoft/vscode#176249
• February 2023 Recovery 2 microsoft/vscode#177119

Releases:

• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.76.0
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.76.1
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.76.2

MS release date: 1st of March 2023

Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/1.76
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.76 release/1.76
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/1.76
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.76 gp-code/release/1.76
• 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/1.76 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

• Create and merge a PR in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod to switch Insiders and (use https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases/blob/main/resources/release-pr.md)
  • 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/1.76 branch
  • Update codeVersion inside of https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/blob/main/WORKSPACE.yaml with the version string of the proposed release
  • Use insider.md as a PR template
  • Update the VS Code stable image tags to the image generated in the previous step (the commit can be found in the resulting Werft job)
  • 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
• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable (How to deploy in Notion)
• Release OpenVSCode Server