What's new

• General

  • Changed the minimum required Toolbox App version to 2.1.

• Profiles

  • Introduced update channels for IDEs. Now you can select the minimum quality of IDEs available to developers.

• Offline mode

  • Introduced expiration dates for the Toolbox App feed mappings in offline.json.

  • Supported offline mode for Code With Me.

• Users

  • Added the possibility to check the latest date when the user was online.

• UI changes

  • Redesigned the Users page.

  • Redesigned the list of profiles on the Profiles page.

  • Redesigned the Plugins page.

  • Supported the Markdown format for data collection agreement files on the Configuration page.

  • Added the Offline mode widget.

  • Supported profile deletion from the profile details page.

• Offline Mode

  • Now you can run Toolbox Enterprise in a network-isolated environment by enabling offline mode and bootstrapping the service with the new Toolbox Enterprise CLI tool. For more details, see Offline mode.

• Plugin Retention Policy

  • It is now possible to specify an expiration date when uploading a plugin. After this date, Toolbox Enterprise will no longer publish the plugin and will remove it after the specified date. This is an opt-in feature, so unless specified explicitly, Toolbox Enterprise will serve all plugins forever.

• Beta Plugin Channels

  • It is now possible to specify channels for plugins distributed by Toolbox Enterprise, so developers can receive beta or nightly builds. These channels exist on a per-plugin basis.

• Toolbox Enterprise-managed settings in IDEs

  • In the IDE settings, you can now find settings managed by your organization.

  • Now you can see notifications related to plugins and vm options in the IDE.

• Bulk operations with plugins

  • On the Plugins page, you can quickly add and remove several plugin versions at once.

• Support for Azure Blob Storage

  • You can configure your server to use Azure Blob Storage as an object storage. For more details, see Azure Blob Storage.

• The local plugin repository uses the upload date and time to order plugins.

  • Toolbox Enterprise now promotes only the latest plugin for a given plugin ID. To define which plugin is considered the latest, Toolbox Enterprise uses its upload date.

• Organization logo

  • On the Toolbox Enterprise Server side, you can configure your organization's logo to be displayed in the IDEs.

• New setting template to disable installing plugins from the disk.

• UI changes

  • Added the list of profile users to profile details.

  • Added filters to the Plugins page, enabling you to search for plugins by name, vendor, and visibility status.

  • Redesigned the welcome screen.

  • Redesigned the Users page.

  • Enhanced the Available applications section in the profile editor.

• Profiles

  • Implemented the new logic for application filters. The list of applications available for a particular profile influences the application filters that you configure when adding a new setting or plugin.

  • Redesigned the Profiles UI.

• Plugins

  • Improved the API for working with plugins.

  • Added validation for plugin IDs and versions. Now, Toolbox Enterprise will show an error if these values contain the .., /, or \ symbols.

• Analytics

  • Reduced the number of analytics logs delivered to the Toolbox Enterprise Server for safety and better data compliance. This update improves the consistency of data delivery, making the process more transparent.

• Notification mechanism for restricting and updating IDEs

  • Added a possibility to schedule a force update in the Web UI

  • Added force update notifications to JetBrains IDEs

• UI improvements in the Web UI

  • Cleaned up the Home page

  • Redesigned the Configuration page

  • Added a link to the Toolbox Enterprise help to the main menu

  • Cleaned up the Users page

• Fixed a bunch of issues related to the analytics collection

More than 97 issues were resolved in this release, here are the most notable changes:

• Propagate IDE Settings

  • Supported IDE settings configuration in the Web UI

  • Provided predefined templates for common scenarios. Would you like to see more templates? Let us know

• Plugin Repository

  • Added plugin download events

  • Introduced the plugin repository audit log

• Supported aarch64 platform for docker images, Toolbox Enterprise Preview now runs on Apple Silicon computers

• The license agreement is shown when you launch the server for the first time. It will ask you to add a configuration parameter to mark your agreement and to let the server start

• The Toolbox App (1.26+) shows restart notifications in IDEs when new settings or plugins are applied

• Plugin repository:

  • Configured the internal plugin repository to use the database. The Toolbox Enterprise Server converts the current storage on the first start. It might take several minutes before you’ll be able to see all your plugins again. Furthermore, it is possible to trigger this synchronisation manually should you see any inconsistencies.

  • Introduced stability channels for plugins

• UI improvements:

  • Added a dark theme

  • Added a new filter to sort out users by their roles

  • Implemented a UI for editing available IDE plugins in profiles

  • Added the consent link to the Toolbox App

  • Fixed the way the data collection agreements are displayed

  • Added highlighting of unsupported VM options

• Analytics:

  • Improved the collection of freeze analytics and introduced the possibility to view details of freeze reports

  • Introduced the ability to download collected exceptions reports from the UI

• IDE Plugin:

  • Retired the support for 2020.3 IDEs

  • Fixed login flow and authentication for plugin repository in Android Studio

• Notable improvements:

  • Added an ability to infer object storage credentials implicitly when Toolbox Enterprise is deployed using the AWS stack

  • Updated the available filters for searching IDEs

  • Toolbox Enterprise can now work in specific network setups where authentication is provided by a forward proxy

• Added support for IntelliJ-based IDEs from the 2022.1 release

• Improved Docker Image, JAR package, and docker-compose demo

• Implemented analytics dashboard for:

  • IDE and plugin versions, OS, and options

  • Top exceptions dashboard

  • APDEX code completion performance

• Updated profiles:

  • Management of VM Options

  • Management of disabled plugins

  • Automatic configuration of plugin force-installation

• Plugin Repository:

  • Plugin dedicated page

  • Support for plugin channels

  • Authorization for plugin downloads

  • Plugin uploading from Gradle SDK

• Notable improvements:

  • Default profile is correctly added to all new users

  • Fixed too frequent login notifications from Toolbox App

  • Implemented better handling of OAuth2 server error responses

  • Added the possibility to show profiles on the Users page

  • Added an option to disable selected bundled plugins from an IDE

  • Added instructions on how to list current HTTPS certificates

  • Improved how we collect exceptions and freezes from an IDE

  • Warn HTTPS has to be used

  • Show plugin download link, size, and compatible IDEs

• Beta Plugin Channels issues

  • Plugins in the channels other than 'Stable' must have higher versions than the ones in 'Stable'. Otherwise, the IDE will update them to the version from 'Stable'. This happens because each plugin has a default channel, 'Stable', which is added to the IDE as a part of joining Toolbox Enterprise. When you select a different channel for some plugin, a separate repository is added, effectively appending some new versions of the plugin to the list. Then the IDE selects the highest version it can find. Unfortunately, we cannot forbid the IDE from pulling plugins from JetBrains Marketplace at the moment, but it's planned. Because of this, plugins from JetBrains Marketplace are treated as ones from the 'Stable' channel.

  • Toolbox Enterprise refreshes the list of plugins on IDE restart and periodically after two hours. After uploading a plugin, it may not be visible in the IDE instantly.

  • Changing a plugin channel in the list of plugin versions results in saving the selection without the need to click Apply. This issue will be fixed in the next preview build.

• In some cases, when you configure a force update due date, the date picker might work incorrectly. If the issue occurs, specify the necessary date manually in the "DD-MM-YYYY" format, for example, 30-11-2022.

• Toolbox Enterprise Server will not start filly without license agreement parameter, please read the instructions in the product and add the parameter to your configuration files

• Running an IDE may rewrite disabled_plugins.txt and thus revert the changes made on the Toolbox Enterprise Server.

• Auto installing plugins with specified version does not override plugins that are already present on developer's machine. As a result plugin may not be installed if the user already has it.

• The Demo Setup does not run on M1 (arm) computers, please use x86_64 hosts instead.

• Plugin repository access from Toolbox Enterprise Plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs may fail with the notification No DownloadSession in context. The Toolbox App restart fixes the problem, see TBX-7682 for details.

• Several Toolbox App instances may be running on macOS or Linux after several days of running. Close these instances as workaround, see TBX-7713 for details.

• After uninstalling the Toolbox Enterprise Plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs from an IntelliJ-based IDEs, the “send usage statistics” checkbox is left checked under the Appearance & Behaviour > System Settings > Data Sharing section. One has to manually update the checkbox state after the plugin is removed or disabled.

• The -Didea.fatal.error.notification=disabled VM Option is left on the IDE VM Options.