Release Recap: 2.14.0, Latest Customer Feedback, and the Road to 100K GitHub Stars

We’re excited to update you on Coder’s latest happenings and releases, including Coder 2.14.0. You can check out the 2.14.0 changelog on GitHub for a complete summary of updates. Read on to learn more about our recent feedback session with Coder customers, an approaching milestone for Coder, and a new open-source testing library for Go.

Technical Advisory Council Highlights

Last month, we hosted a roundtable discussion with Coder customers to gather feedback on in-flight initiatives and our product roadmap. The insights gathered will guide Coder's future improvements to address critical areas, including:

• Slack and email alerts to keep developers and Coder administrators informed about key events like failed Workspace builds and resource exhaustion
• Efficient access controls for running a single Coder deployment across multiple platform teams, each with their own Templates and infrastructure
• Best practices and patterns for managing version upgrades, replication handling, and optimizing Workspace startup times

If you have feedback or requests for the Coder team, let us know by tagging us on GitHub or reaching out to your Coder Customer Success team to join a future technical advisory council session.

We’ve released some experimental versions of features into early access with select customers for feedback and testing. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!

The Road to 100K GitHub Stars

We did the math and we’re on a trajectory to reach 100,000 GitHub Stars by year-end. It’s a stretch goal so we’d appreciate your help. We recognize that GitHub Stars are a byproduct of consistently delivering value to the open-source community, which remains central to our mission.

We’re grateful that the open-source community has rallied around Coder since our first big hit, code-server, and the project you know and love, Coder cloud development environments. If you haven’t ventured into our GitHub repos lately, please consider doing so and giving a star or two.

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New From Coder: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go

In case you missed it, Coder Principal Engineer Spike Curtis released a new open-source time-testing library for Go last month. The new project, Quartz, allows developers to create repeatable, deterministic, and fast unit tests by mocking out calls that query or depend on real time. Quartz addresses common issues such as race conditions and the need for specific test timing, making writing reliable and efficient tests easier. Quartz aims to improve the developer experience by reducing flaky tests and enhancing test reliability.

In a blog post that climbed the charts on Hacker News last month, Spike deep-dives into the principles of Quartz and how it works.