Based on Che 7.26

• Critical & Blocker issues planned for this release

• Other issues planned for this release

• Completed issues for this release

• New & Noteworthy:
  • Che: label:noteworthy + label:noteworthy
  • CRW: unresolved + has workaround OR resolved + labels = noteworthy or release-notes

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New features

• OCP 4.7 now supported (in addition to OCP 4.6 EUS)
• Resource monitor plugin - https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/17205 - 7.25 done
• Issues setting tlsSecretName - https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18810 - 7.27, backported to 7.26
• Profile Che-Theia to determine the correct memory/cpu resources https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18565 (first part done, WIP continues in #18723)

Technical Debt

• CRW-1533 - support airgap envs for Z
• #17857 - migrate Che release process to GH actions
• #17748 - Che Release process enhancements - done
• CRW-1442, CRW-1444 - complete migration to casc Jenkins, including releng jobs + Z beaker nodes - done

Possible features / Slip to future release?

• CRW-1270 - Customer issues
• Improved support for Bitbucket - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CRW-1490 (2.8)
• Add resource limits/requests to the devfiles and plugins in the registries https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/16685 (in progress for 7.27 or 7.28)
• Che-Theia shows `Offline` mode, mistakenly https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18723
• Simplified factory link - https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18165 (depends on new dashboard in 7.26.x, so slip to 2.8)
• CRW-1030 - enable use of CPaaS (2.x)
• Plugin recommendations - https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/18274 - appears to have slipped to 2.8