Red Hat Developer Hub serves as an enterprise platform designed to optimize the developer experience. Leveraging Backstage, an open source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Developer Hub provides a bespoke, unified environment where developers can access important tools, resources, and documentation for efficient application development and deployment.
RHDH offers support across Red Hat OpenShift, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE and integrates with a wide range of DevOps tools, including GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Jenkins, and PagerDuty. This broad information hub facilitates greater collaboration and enables self-service actions that keep developers productive throughout their working day (and night).
What's New in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8
RHDH is now based on Backstage 1.42. This release has many important features and enhancements, here are the most notable:
- [New] New Scorecard plugin provides insights into project health and compliance metrics (TP)
- [New] MCP Server in Red Hat Developer Hub for catalogs and techdocs (DP)
- [New] Persona based Homepage and user customization (DP)
- [New] Localization support and French Language support (TP)
- [New] Openshift AI Connector for Red Hat Developer Hub syncs AI assets with RHDH (DP)
- [New] Developer Lightspeed is now based on Llama-stack for greater flexibility (DP)
- [New] RHDH Dynamic Plugin Factory to help with plugin development (DP)
- [Enhancement] More detailed Extensions plugin information and clearer support status
- [Enhancement] RHDH Local has new built-in guides, docs & more features on by default
- [Docs] Additional documentation on migrating Backstage plugins to RHDH dynamic plugins
- [Docs] Add Orchestrator documentation to the RHDH docs
Learn more
For further information about all the new features and enhancements of RHDH 1.8, please refer to the documentation Release Notes.
For comprehensive product documentation, visit the RHDH documentation.
Visit Getting started with Red Hat Developer Hub to find additional resources.
For more information on the MCP tools read "MCP In Red Hat Developer Hub: Chat with your catalog!"
For more information on the Openshift AI Connector for Red Hat Developer Hub, check out this article.
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