Iteration Plan for November 2024 #232927

This plan captures our work in November. This is a 6-week iteration in order to accommodate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States. We will ship in first half of December. The rest of December will be dedicated to our annual house keeping.

Endgame

• Dec 02, 2024: Endgame begins
• Dec 06, 2024: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team
• Interactive window accessibility issues for SR users vscode#209140 Aaron Munger (@amunger)

Workbench

• Layout Controls: move them to respective corners vscode#232798 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Tree find widget should not render over the tree contents vscode#232987 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Async tree highlight mode should signal match count in folders vscode#232988 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)
• Support finding folders in File Explorer using find widget vscode#232989 Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj)

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 Alex Ross (@alexr00) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Support search history persistence for the find widget vscode#92222 Osvaldo Ortega (@osortega)
• Make EditContext the default input strategy vscode#228093 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Make available an experimental initial version of Expandable Hover vscode#232685 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Enable by default the default color decorators vscode#233083 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• Expand line comments when pressing Enter vscode#180551 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)

Notebook Editor

• Multi cursor across cells: support selection highlights and select all find occurrences vscode#233612 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Support run cells in section from markdown cells vscode#232865 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Show last executed time on cell status bar vscode#168792 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)

Jupyter Notebooks

• 💪 Explore kernel persistence for Remote environments vscode-jupyter#16224 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig) team

TypeScript

• Ship TypeScript 5.7 vscode#234056 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Send Custom Requests To TypeScript Language Service Plugins vscode#218275 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Enable update imports on paste by default vscode#30066 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Authentication

• Adopt Broker flow in Microsoft Auth provider via MSAL-node vscode#229431 TylerLeonhardt

Source Control

• Support for blame inline decorations vscode#203841 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 💪 Support for ref context actions vscode#232992 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Testing

• Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Improve how failed tests are being displayed vscode#233454 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Improve continuous run UI vscode#210848 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug

• Find in output vscode#225417 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Terminal

• 🏃 Add support for terminal suggest in zsh/bash vscode#226562 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 API to expose the shell's actual environment to extensions vscode#227467 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• Ligatures in the terminal vscode#34103 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

API

• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Policy support for extensions allow/block lists vscode#84756 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) João Moreno (@joaomoreno) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Support bootstrapping extensions in desktop vscode#232990 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Better local extension search experience vscode#232991 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Support configuration contribution points of resolver extensions vscode#224236 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Remote Extension Contributions

General

• 🏃 Add proxy support to the fetch defined by node when in a remote vscode#228697 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

SSH Extension

• SSH connection issues joshspicer
  • SSH agent forwarding reports vscode-remote-release#10274
  • Can't establish connection with ProxyCommand vscode-remote-release#10331
  • Control characters not being filtered from parsed terminal output vscode-remote-release#10417
• Audit error handling for SSH connections vscode-remote-release#10249 joshspicer

Electron

• 🏃 Align Electron fetch with Node.js fetch electron#43715, electron#43712 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Deprecate macOS 10.15 vscode#232993 Robo (@deepak1556)

Documentation

• Address feedback from customer interviews on VS Code tutorial vscode-internalbacklog#5127 Nick Trogh (@ntrogh)
• Document Tools API vscode-docs#7725 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) roblourens Nick Trogh (@ntrogh)

Deferred

• Improve notebook model diff algorithm (cell id, execution count, etc) vscode#227928 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• Improve Context key for execution/debug/run-by-line actions vscode-jupyter#16189 Michael Lively (@Yoyokrazy)
• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru) Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Support global PR queries vscode-pull-request-github#6448 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• Finalize Related code vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 joshspicer
• 🏃 Change the global fetch available in local extension hosts to be the one from Electron vscode#228696 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• 🏃 Explore enabling COI on desktop, context for current block vscode#186614 Robo (@deepak1556)