This plan captures our work in August. We will ship in early September. This is a 4-week iteration. This iteration falls into our summer vacation season and although not a lot of traveling is happening, our team still takes time off.

Endgame

• August 31st, 2020: Endgame begins
• September 4th, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #105745.

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
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query team
• 🏃 Revisit navigation model of the settings UI Settings editor accessibility improvements prototype feedback #104318 @roblourens @sana-ajani

Workbench

• 🏃 Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane @sbatten
• Explore static registration of authentication providers Authentication providers, investigate static registration #103507 @RMacfarlane
• Polish rename on type Polish rename on type #104823 @aeschli
• Support for custom views with WebView contents Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911 @mjbvz
• format modified Format only modified lines #44075 @jrieken

Editor

• Release a new version of the Monaco Editor @alexdima

Tasks

• Expose variable resolvers for CustomExecution2 tasks CustomExecution2 Feedback: expose variable resolvers #81007 @alexr00

Notebook Editor

• Evaluate and respond to early adopter feedback for notebooks (execution counts, stop, clear outputs, ...) Notebook UX Feedback #104772 @misolori @roblourens
• Renderer API Notebook "Pure" Renderer API #102644 Add product and runCommand on notebook renderer API #103864 @connor4312
• 🔴 🏃 Collaborate with language teams on notebook support @jrieken
• 🏃 API to associate a notebook cell document with its notebook Better API to associate a notebook cell document with its notebook #102091 @jrieken
• API for metadata update and output clearing (Notebook execution model API (+ clear outputs side effects) #103713 @roblourens @rebornix @jrieken
• Rework API for cell execution Notebook execution model API (+ clear outputs side effects) #103713 @roblourens @rebornix @jrieken
• Explore UX for notebook diffing Explore diffing for notebook cells #99877 @misolori @rebornix @roblourens
• Identify and fill API gaps for Diffing Notebook source control / diff #94810 @rebornix
• 🏃 Identify and fill API gaps for Live Share API gaps to support Liveshare in Notebook #102503 @rebornix

Languages

LSP / LSIF

• 🏃 Towards LSP version 3.16 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Stabilize the LSIF TypeScript indexer @dbaeumer

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Adopt TS 4.0 Bundle TypeScript 4.0 with VS Code  #102919 @mjbvz

Debug

• Support filter in the debug console Word filter for debug console #20838 @isidorn
• Support menu contributions in the Variables view [Debug] Expose the contribution.menus for Variable view #70377 @weinand @isidorn
• Revisit the node auto-attach behavior for js-debug Reintroduce js-debug auto attach vscode-js-debug#703 @connor4312
• 🏃 Improve the inline value support Extension API for Inline Values #105690 @weinand

DAP

Investigations for:

• Support for indicating custom debug focus change Support for indicating custom debug focus change debug-adapter-protocol#128 @weinand
• 🏃 Support object IDs Proposal: Support object IDs debug-adapter-protocol#134 @weinand

SCM

• Address pain points of new SCM View SCM: Bring back SCM Providers view #104151 @joaomoreno

API

• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extensions

• Show Extension recommendation when the user switches the language mode Send Extension recommendation when user changes language mode #102823 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for August 2020 vscode-remote-release#3523 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR and Issues extension, see query @alexr00 @RMacfarlane

Engineering

• 🏃 Make VSCode Trusted Types compliant Trusted Types compatibility: Make VSCode TrustedTypes compliant #103699 @jrieken and team
• Azure DevOps - test improvements Azure DevOps - test improvements #103814 @lszomoru

Bots

• Make issue triaging extension available in browser store(s) Release in chrome extension store vscode-github-triage-extension#2 @JacksonKearl

Electron

• Upgrade to electron 9 Update to Electron 9 #100731 @deepak1556
• 💪 Investigate exploration builds for Apple Silicon Exploration builds for apple silicon #104780 @deepak1556

Node.js-free, sandboxed renderer

• Backlog Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556
  • Remove dependency on node for startup path Remove dependency on node require for startup code path #98682 @deepak1556 @alexdima
    • ✋ Electron 9: adopt V8 cached data option for browser windows @deepak1556
    • move off file:// protocol for serving static assets @deepak1556
  • Minimal sandboxed version of the workbench with stubbed services @bpasero @deepak1556

Documentation

• None.

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Deferred Items

• Undo/redo of workspace edit file operations, support linked undo operations Support linked undo operations #101789 @alexdima @jrieken
• Include Select Settings Sync Service... action as part of Settings Sync: Configure... Include select service flow into the configure command and turn on sync wizard #104496 @sandy081
• 💪 Investigate issues introduced by the Web UI stopped indication Improving stopped indication ("breakpoint hit") for Web UI #100757 @weinand @isidorn
• 💪 Support object favorites Proposal: Support object favorites debug-adapter-protocol#132 @weinand
• 💪 Improve existing Windows installer Exploration: Improve setup experience on Windows (Inno Setup) #102594 @lszomoru @joaomoreno
• 💪 Rework CLI to allow to use the macOS launch service Launch the app via open cmd on macOS #102975 @deepak1556 @bpasero