What’s new in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2

Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 is generally available now. Red Hat Developer Hub allows platform engineering teams to offer software templates based on your best practices to maximize developer skills, ease onboarding, and increase development productivity, and focus on writing great code by reducing friction and frustration for development teams.

New features in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2

Here is a summary of new features in the Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 release:

• New Audit Log feature captures important platform events and can stream them to log management platforms for better storage, analysis, security, and troubleshooting.
• New RBAC conditional policies allow finer grained access control to resources gated by RBAC - for example, the ability to limit the viewing of specific entities to specific roles etc.
• New ArgoCD frontend plugin has an updated UX, includes status per environment, and more information for developers.
• New RHDH Orchestrator extends the default scaffolder and allows templates to make use of eventing, notifications, approvals, retry, and long running tasks for more sophisticated Software Template automation.
• New ScaffoldedFrom metadata item brings greater clarity over component provenance to the software catalog by linking components to the software template that created them.
• New RHDH Theme uses the Patternfly design system,
• New Support for external PostgreSQL databases allows the RHDH database to now be managed independently of the RHDH container Pod in K8s (optional, not compulsory!).
• New Pull Request action is now available for Azure DevOps users.
• New Corporate Proxy support improves usability for customers operating Red Hat Developer Hub in enterprise environments.
• New FieldExtensions can be added that allow custom fields to be added into templates.
• The popular HttpRequest plugin is now included in the release.
• The Kiali service mesh plugin is now available. 
• Anonymised telemetry collection is now set to ON by default with the option to disable it in the configuration - see the docs for details.

You can read the release notes in full here. The updated documentation is here.

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