A Look Back: Coder Releases of 2024
As 2024 winds down, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a busy year for Coder and our community. It’s been a year full of innovation, feedback, and collaboration—and it’s all thanks to you. To wrap things up, let’s spotlight a collection of features we released for our open-source community this year. Here’s to the journey and what’s to come in 2025.
New to Coder Open-Source in 2024
Backstage Integration
Give developers one-click access from Backstage to a pre-provisioned cloud development environment. This integration allows teams to simplify access to tools and ensure configurations stay consistent across projects.
Windows OS Support
Bring Windows development tools like Visual Studio, PowerShell, and MATLAB to the cloud. Developers working on Windows-specific projects can now enjoy the flexibility of cloud environments without giving up their preferred tools.
Dev Containers via Envbuilder
Dev Containers with Envbuilder let developers customize their environments on top of standardized base images. This flexibility ensures consistency across teams while allowing individuals to adapt workspaces to their specific needs.
ClickOps GitOps via Terraform Providers
Replace manual ClickOps with declarative infrastructure management through the coderd Terraform provider. Use Git workflows to manage templates, enforce governance, and give developers visibility into templates, allowing them to propose changes with pull requests.
Notifications
Stay updated with real-time notifications about workspace status and events via Teams, Slack, email, or webhook. Developers and admins can stay informed and respond quickly without constant manual checks.
New Workspace Modules
Extend your development environments with modules like KasmVNC for web-based desktops, Amazon DCV for high-performance remote Windows desktops, and Cursor AI for AI-powered coding assistance in the popular IDE.
Workspace Build Timeline
Visualize the steps in your workspace provisioning process to identify delays and improve setup times. This feature helps teams identify issues so they can optimize environment build performance.
Shared Ports
Easily share development server ports with your team, enabling collaborative testing and debugging without complex network configurations.
Observability Helm Chart
Deploy the Observability Helm Chart to monitor your Coder deployment with pre-configured Grafana dashboards and Prometheus metrics. This helps teams ensure reliability and identify performance issues quickly.
5x Faster Networking
Experience up to 5x faster throughput starting in Coder 2.12.0, thanks to resized TCP buffers and a reworked TCP stack that reduces packet loss. These enhancements improve file transfers, stabilize connections, and enhance performance for demanding applications.
Always Tinkering: Open-Source Projects Beyond Coder
At Coder, one of our core values is to always tinker. This means we’re constantly experimenting, building, and sharing new ideas with the open-source community, even when those projects aren’t directly tied to cloud development environments. This year, we’ve introduced a few open-source tools that reflect our commitment to always tinkering.
Wush: Peer-to-Peer File Transfers for Developers
Wush.dev is a peer-to-peer file transfer tool designed to overcome the limitations of traditional CLI tools. Built on the same high-performance networking layer as Coder’s core product, Wush avoids slow relay servers and third-party trust-based authentication, offering faster, more secure transfers.
Quartz: Deterministic Time Testing for Go
Quartz is a mocking library for Go that helps developers write precise, repeatable unit tests for time-dependent code. By mocking real-time calls, Quartz ensures consistent results and faster execution during testing. This tool is perfect for teams building time-critical systems.
See You in 2025
As we close out 2024, we want to thank you—our customers, contributors, and community—for your support, collaboration, and feedback throughout the year. Every feature we build and every project we tinker with is inspired by our community’s needs. We look forward to continuing to grow, innovate, and work together in 2025.
Here’s to another year of keeping developers in flow, together.
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