[dashboard] display warning for latest IDE versions

Author: mustard-mh

components/dashboard/src/start/StartPage.tsx

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 import { useEffect } from "react";
+import InfoBox from "../components/InfoBox";
 import gitpodIconUA from "../icons/gitpod-ua.svg";
 
 export enum StartPhase {
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ export interface StartPageProps {
     error?: StartWorkspaceError;
     title?: string;
     children?: React.ReactNode;
+    showLatestIdeWarning?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface StartWorkspaceError {
@@ -105,6 +107,17 @@ export function StartPage(props: StartPageProps) {
                 )}
                 {error && <StartError error={error} />}
                 {props.children}
+                {props.showLatestIdeWarning && (
+                    <InfoBox className="mt-4">
+                        You are using the latest editor version.{" "}
+                        <a
+                            className="text-blue-400 dark:text-blue-300 hover:text-blue-600 dark:hover:text-blue-400"
+                            href="/preferences"
+                        >
+                            Change preferences
+                        </a>
+                    </InfoBox>
+                )}
             </div>
         </div>
     );

components/dashboard/src/start/StartWorkspace.tsx

@@ -650,9 +650,9 @@ export default class StartWorkspace extends React.Component<StartWorkspaceProps,
                 );
                 break;
         }
-
+        const useLatest = !!this.state.workspaceInstance?.configuration?.ideConfig?.useLatest;
         return (
-            <StartPage phase={phase} error={error} title={title}>
+            <StartPage phase={phase} error={error} title={title} showLatestIdeWarning={useLatest}>
                 {statusMessage}
             </StartPage>
         );

components/gitpod-protocol/src/workspace-instance.ts

@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ export interface WorkspaceInstanceConfiguration {
 
     // supervisorImage is the ref of the supervisor image this instance uses.
     supervisorImage?: string;
+
+    ideConfig?: {
+        useLatest?: boolean;
+    };
 }
 
 /**

components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts

@@ -314,9 +314,6 @@ export class GitpodServerImpl implements GitpodServerWithTracing, Disposable {
         delete res.status.ownerToken;
         // is an operational internal detail
         delete res.status.nodeName;
-        // configuration contains feature flags and theia version.
-        // we might want to share that in the future, but for the time being there's no need
-        delete res.configuration;
         // internal operation detail
         // @ts-ignore
         delete res.workspaceImage;

components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts

@@ -522,16 +522,20 @@ export class WorkspaceStarter {
         excludeFeatureFlags: NamedWorkspaceFeatureFlag[],
         ideConfig: IDEConfig,
     ): Promise<WorkspaceInstance> {
+        const ideChoice = user.additionalData?.ideSettings?.defaultIde;
+        const useLatest = !!user.additionalData?.ideSettings?.useLatestVersion;
+
         // TODO(cw): once we allow changing the IDE in the workspace config (i.e. .gitpod.yml), we must
         //           give that value precedence over the default choice.
         const configuration: WorkspaceInstanceConfiguration = {
             ideImage: ideConfig.ideOptions.options[ideConfig.ideOptions.defaultIde].image,
             supervisorImage: ideConfig.supervisorImage,
+            ideConfig: {
+                // TODO(hw): set false when latestImage not found
+                useLatest,
+            },
         };
 
-        const ideChoice = user.additionalData?.ideSettings?.defaultIde;
-        const useLatest = !!user.additionalData?.ideSettings?.useLatestVersion;
-
         if (!!ideChoice) {
             const mappedImage = ideConfig.ideOptions.options[ideChoice];
             if (mappedImage.image != null) {