Due to licensing issues, Red Hat can no longer ship openj9 binaries.  z & p architectures had used openj9 due to performance considerations, but will now switch to openjdk (inline with x).

Changes to be done for 2.15.1:

• x64 images will be switched to multiarch x/z/p: DONE
  • https://quay.io/repository/crw/plugin-java8-rhel8?tab=tags&tag=2.15-11
  • https://quay.io/repository/crw/plugin-java11-rhel8?tab=tags&tag=2.15-12
• operator, devfile and plugin registries will need to be updated to NOT switch to plugin-*-openj9 images in place of plugin-* images: DONE
• jobs need to be updated to not build plugin-java*-openj9: https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/codeready-workspaces/crw-jenkins/-/merge_requests/1092 DONE
  • job-config update: https://github.com/redhat-developer/codeready-workspaces/commit/d5a89ac048ff281424d7b359185cb6af4ab334be DONE
• Doc updates to crw-images repo - mark plugin-java8/11-openj9 folders deprecated; remove mention of plugin-java8/11-openj9 from the plugin-java-8/11 folders: https://github.com/redhat-developer/codeready-workspaces-images/commit/e3ef3d7880b36c192818c3392bf8fa7969db9b0e DONE

• update SSO 7.4 -> SSO 7.5.1 and verify it works for airgap scenarios (CIAM-1269): DONE
• update operator, devfile and plugin registries to remove swap_images.sh from .sh and dockerfile refs: DONE
• update java image descriptions (both jdk and j9) to mention Knowledge Base article (see RHMWRT-666): DONE

TODO:

• deprecate openj9 images in Comet (CRW-2780)

CRW 2.15.1 GA is scheduled some time between Mar 1 and Mar 17, subject to QE completion (and the ongoing war in Ukraine).

See also CRW-2729 for updates to CRW 2.16.

See also potential future followup work in CRW-2760 for 3.x