This plan captures our work in April. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship our April Update in early May. The highlights include: a preview of a more flexible editor layout (since we didn't get to it in March), a better experience when changing settings, and several new APIs for extension authors.

Endgame

• April 23th: Code freeze for the endgame
• April 27th: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #48372.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team

Install

• 🏃 💪 Provide a VS Code snap package Build and distribute Snappy packages #5458 @Tyriar

Workbench

• 🏃 Preview for grid layout for editors Support a grid layout for editors #14909 @bpasero
• 🏃 Explore improving settings experience Explore improvements to settings editor #41040 @roblourens
• Explore enabling view contributions to the activity bar Ability to contribute views containers #43645 @sandy081
• Unbundle bundled language packs Investigate how to best unbundle prepackaed langauges #45663 @dbaeumer @sandy081 @ramya-rao-a
• Quick box improvements for multi-step inputs Quick box improvements for multi-step inputs #48116 @chrmarti
• Problems view support to exclude errors for some files/folders Ignore folders/files in Problems view #22289 @sandy081

Editor

• Ship a new version of the Monaco editor @alexandrudima @rebornix

Terminal

• 🏃 Enable multi-plexing of terminals Terminal Providers #46192 @Tyriar

Source Control

• Support custom view contributions to the Git viewlet Investigation: Support custom SCM views #45686 @joaomoreno
• Provide a protocol handler that clones a git repository and opens VS Code Support opening a git repository via a URL #45685 @joaomoreno

Languages

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript 2.8.x Adopt TypeScript 2.8.3 #48008 @mjbvz
• Explore moving Organize Import to be a code action Organise imports should be a refactoring/code action #46647 @mjbvz
• Support Organize Import on save Run organise imports on save #46678 @mjbvz
• Provide an NPM script explorer view that can run/debug scripts as tasks @egamma

CSS/HTML/JSON

• Support regions in CSS folding provider CSS #regions folding #46591 @octref
• Polish path completion [css] path completion not escaped #46644 [css] path completion "./" only suggests "." files/folders #46639 @octref
• 💪 Explore how to provide cross-file $ variable completions in SCSS and LESS [scss] instellisense doesn't work when importing variables from separate file #6734 @octref
• Investigate how to use MDN data to power our language servers Use MDN data to power the CSS language server vscode-css-languageservice#68 @octref @aeschli
• 💪 Explore how users could extend CSS support through settings Allow contributions of custom CSS properties to CSS extension #47775 @octref
• Expose API from JSON language server vscode-json-languageservice#18 @aeschli
• Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes #48777 @octref
• Make the supported schemes explicit for JSON @egamma

Markdown

• Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes Restrict handling to documents with file: and untitled: schemes #48777 @mjbvz

Extensions

• Extension install - detect incomplete installations @sandy081
• Document what document URIs extensions should handle @jrieken
• Review and ensure that bundled extensions handle non file based resource schemes @team
• Add a resource scope for global settings @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Sublime configuration settings importer Sublime Settings Importer Extension #45984 @tsalinger @sandy081

Debug

• Polish LogPoints support Context menu on log point talks about "breakpoint" #46821 @isidorn
• Provide setting to enable/disable show value hover only Add a setting to always enable the regular hover when debugging #47466 @isidorn
• Launch Debug Adapters in extension host Support debug adapters running in EH #45129 @weinand

API

• Provide API to register a protocol handler Support opening a git repository via a URL #45685 @joaomoreno
• Finalize the FileSystemProvider API Finalise FileSystemProvider api #47475 @jrieken
• Finalize FoldingProvider API Finalize folding providers #47808 @aeschli
• 🏃 Consolidate Debug Adapter launch API @weinand
• Finalize WebView API [Plan Item] Propose new Webview API #43713 @mjbvz @jrieken
• Finalize Task execution API @dbaeumer
• Make it easier for extension authors to deal with non-file-based URI schemes String DocumentFilter should only match scheme 'file' and 'untitled' #21886 @jrieken
• Explore support to resolve an unresolved response items (completions, code lens) when using the language API through commands Provide API commands to resolve codeLens, completion items .... #44846 @jrieken

Serviceability

• Process explorer as a separate renderer window Process explorer as a separate renderer window #41045 @RMacfarlane

Engineering

• Continue adoption of electron 2.0 @Tyriar @bpasero
• Automate adoption of new electron builds @bpasero
• Move off spectron for the smoke test Improve smoke tests stability and performance #47471 @joaomoreno

Documentation

• 🏃 Continue to refresh videos on the website Video: New getting started video #45924 @auchenberg

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Deferred Items

• 🏃 Allow user level installs on Windows Allow user-level installations #534 @joaomoreno
• 🏃 Finalize API to support computing definition locations Extend language API to allow sourceRange in Go to Definition #10037 @mjbvz
• Provide API for hierarchical document symbols, to enable early adopters @jrieken