VS Code Browser Release 1.72

[mustard-mh]

Bug description

Endgame: microsoft/vscode#161755

Expected release date: 10/05

DRI: @jeanp413 @filiptronicek
Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/1.72
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.72 release/1.72
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/1.72
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.72 gp-code/release/1.72
    • Turn off all experimental feature flags in gitpod-web
      • Ports view (akin to gitpod-io/openvscode-server@488fe48)
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point to the release branches
  • insiders-gp.yml
  • insiders.yml
  • code-nightly.yaml
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo to generate stable image for VS Code (Build stable image for VS Code Browser 1.72 #13617)
  • Use the template from https://gist.github.com/filiptronicek/be19dcab639a1cdf08089cc762377a41
  • Smoke test version 1.72 in VS Code Insiders
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo updating VS Code stable image tags to image generated in previous step
  • constants.go
• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable
• Release OpenVSCode Server
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases/tag/openvscode-server-v1.72.0
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases/tag/openvscode-server-v1.72.1
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases/tag/openvscode-server-v1.72.2
• Port fixes from release/1.72 to main if any
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point back to main and gp-code/main branch
• Monitor for recovery releases and provide corresponding release in Gitpod and OpenVSCode if necessary
  • Update stable to 1.72.1 #13784
  • Update stable to 1.72.2 #13860

[mustard-mh]

@filiptronicek released stable 1.72.0 and it's deployed #13687 🙏 🧡

[filiptronicek]

Donezos 🎉! https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/milestone/211

[filiptronicek]

Looks like I made too quick of a conclusion: microsoft/vscode@43bde84.