This plan captures our work in August. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early September.

Endgame

• August 22, 2022: Endgame begins
• August 26, 2022: 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:

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 @isidorn team
• Only use IAccessible2 interface to detect screen readers vscode#157504 @isidorn @deepak1556

UX

• Explore improvements to Command Center interactions vscode#155458 @daviddossett

Workbench

• Setting Profiles
  • 🏃 Improvements to the settings profile experience vscode#155067 @daviddossett @sandy081
  • 🏃 Support Syncing Settings Profiles vscode#154243 @Tyriar @sandy081
  • Correctly show language-specific defaults when a non-default profile is active vscode#156290 @rzhao271 @sandy081
  • CLI: Launch VSCode with a specific profile vscode#151301 @sandy081
• 🏃 💪 Support hiding/showing toolbar items using right-click vscode#150916 @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore Continue On... support in core vscode#141293 @joyceerhl
• Enable Window Controls Overlay by default vscode#157140 @sbatten @rzhao271
• 🏃 Define default snippets for languages (empty file getting started) vscode#145929 @digitarald
• Allow to open the merge editor in files with conflict markers vscode#153800 @jrieken @hediet
• Fully support codicons in extension contributed walkthroughs vscode#154963 @lramos15
• 🏃 Align trust and policy UX in settings editor with other indicators vscode#157564 @rzhao271 @sandy081
• 🏃 Support actions on quick pick categories vscode#149057 @TylerLeonhardt @daviddossett
• 🏃 Unify toggle UX in input fields throughout the workbench vscode#156179 @Tyriar @misolori

Web

• 🏃 Continue translations in the web vscode#82595 @TylerLeonhardt
• Missing translations in File-related dialogs vscode#150908 @TylerLeonhardt
• Improve VS Code WASI implementation vscode#154797 @dbaeumer

Code Editor

• Introduce the custom widget for code actions vscode#152913 @justschen
• Use custom widget to improve UX around distinguishing code action groupings (icons, separators) vscode#132109 @justschen
• 🏃 Support sticky scroll vscode#26757 @aiday-mar @jrieken
• Reliable removal of conflict markers in merge editor @hediet
• 🏃 Support snippets in workspace edits vscode#145374 @jrieken
• Support opening a merge editor through an extension vscode#153213 @lramos15

Notebook Editor

• Re-render outputs when missing renderer extensions are installed vscode#157689 @rebornix
• Restore view state for cells from redundant fs file change event vscode#157695 @rebornix
• 💪 Align editor find widget with the notebook find widget vscode#144851 @rebornix
• 💪 Show changes in the overview ruler of the notebook diff editor vscode#146224 @rebornix
• Improve rendering cell editors that have horizontal scrollbars vscode#153708 @roblourens
• 💪 Explore improving files search results for notebooks vscode#95275 @roblourens

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11064 team

Custom Views

• Support customize custom view height vscode#122283 @alexr00
• Disable tree items when enablement clause on linked command is false vscode#102794 @benibenj
• Pass selected tree item context to view/title commands vscode#42903 @benibenj
• 🏃 Allow tree items to have optional checkboxes vscode#116141 @benibenj

Comments

• Comments view should have ability to filter by resolved/unresolved vscode#150958 @alexr00
• Investigate improving commenting area for diffs vscode#115808 @alexr00
• Provide context menu on comment threads vscode#151533 @alexr00

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#19650 @brettcannon team

JavaScript/TypeScript

• ✋ Support TS project-wide intellisense on web typescript#47600 @mjbvz
• ✋ Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 @mjbvz
• 💪 Tooling for generating/hierarchies of tsconfig.json files vscode-languageserver-node#1026 @dbaeumer
• Adopt TypeScript version 4.8 vscode#157527 @mjbvz
• Enable TS Server plugins on web vscode#140455 @mjbvz

Markdown

• 🏃 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 @mjbvz

JSON

• 🏃 Sort JSON properties alphabetically vscode#155312 @aiday-mar @aeschli

Debug

• 💪 Remove special treatment of extension debugging in VS Code (Prototype extension debugging in a clean environment) vscode#126737 @weinand

DAP

• 🏃 Starting new debug session from within a debug adapter debug-adapter-protocol#79 @weinand @roblourens @connor4312
• Specify unit of DAP "character position" debug-adapter-protocol#285 @weinand @connor4312

js-debug

• 💪 Automatically create debug config with a "dry run" vscode-js-debug#1214 @connor4312
• 💪 ✋ Explore creating a debug config for a terminal command vscode#150460 @connor4312

Terminal

• Finalize custom shell integration sequences to allow other shells/REPLs to implement vscode#155639 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• 🏃 💪 Support custom terminal markers vscode#157026 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• 💪 Support shipping and automatic activation of bash and zsh completions on macOS when shell integration is enabled vscode#155733 @Tyriar @meganrogge
• Underline style and color support vscode#156983 @Tyriar
• Fix blurriness in terminal when not using a round zoom factor vscode#85154 @Tyriar
• Smooth scroll support vscode#125950 @Tyriar
• Investigate support for pinned commands vscode#154388 @meganrogge

Tasks

• Improve reconnecting tasks on window reload query @meganrogge

Source Control

• Polish SCM commit button query @lszomoru
• Ensure Commit button remembers the last state per repo so that Commit and Create PR could be the default @lszomoru
• 🏃 Support git with private key password vscode#13680 @lszomoru

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 @mjbvz @rebornix @roblourens
• 🏃 Support context menu actions in webviews vscode#54285 @mjbvz

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7033 @tanhakabir @chrmarti @aeschli
• GitHub Repositories: query @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Improve the experience with multi-root workspaces in Live Preview vscode-livepreview#143 @andreamah
• Fully localise the Live Preview extension vscode-livepreview#221 @andreamah
• ✋ Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 @andreamah @mjbvz
• Create Issue flow should never lose data vscode-pull-request-github#1988 @alexr00
• 🏃 Try to link PRs to issues mentioned in the PR title vscode-pull-request-github#3739 @alexr00
• Show notifications when there are changes to pull requests vscode-pull-request-github#1128 @benibenj
• Display colors for labels vscode-pull-request-github#1193 @benibenj

Install / Update

• ✋ Integrate with the Windows 11 explorer context menu vscode#127365 @deepak1556

Engineering

• 🔴 Adopt transpilation in dev-flow for watch tasks @jrieken
• 🏃 Explore using swc for transpilation vscode#150025 @jrieken
• Fix auto-generation of ILocalizedString for strings from extension package.json vscode#153538 @TylerLeonhardt

Electron

• Enable sandboxing for Insiders by default vscode#156440 @bpasero
• Windows layout styling issue on launch vscode#146683 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Investigate impact of WS_THICKFRAME for frameless windows vscode#158065 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• WCO on Windows has unaligned restore button vscode#157086 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• WCO on Windows don't respond to touch events electron#34364 @deepak1556
• Electron 19 update query @deepak1556 @bpasero
• Contribute the utility process and APIs to Electron vscode#154007 @deepak1556
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 @rzhao271 @deepak1556
• Add proprietary codecs to FFmpeg vscode#156558 @isidorn @deepak1556

Documentation

• 🏃 Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 @gregvanl
• 🏃 Investigate pulling out advanced, reference, and troubleshooting content from Terminal Basics vscode-docs#4809 @gregvanl @Tyriar

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Deferred

• Add configurations for search view decorations vscode#157462 @andreamah
• Explore showing search results as a tree view vscode#20224 @andreamah
• Reload extension host on server side when connected from web and locale is changed vscode#151000 @TylerLeonhardt
• Provide a web-shell with pluggable parser and multi-line editing capabilities shell-engine-js#1 @Tyriar
• Publish a new version of the Monaco editor monaco-editor @hediet
• Support HTML headers in the notebook outline vscode#134853 @roblourens
• vscode.open on document link doesn't accept additional arguments vscode#154993 @bpasero
• Exploration: Adopt utility process for shared process vscode#154050 @bpasero
• Parcel: Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules watcher#64 @bpasero
• 🔴 Navigate to test terminal output @connor4312
• Auto run tests vscode#134941 @connor4312
• Provide support for Go to Test/Go to Test Subject vscode#126932 @connor4312
• Explore improvements to Extensions view #151599 @misolori
• Support auto-complete of Powershell commands vscode#154662 @Tyriar
• WCO on Windows occludes dev tools electron#34129 @deepak1556
• Support contributing a diff provider for the merge editor vscode#84981 @hediet
• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#140708 @hediet
• Modernize the Monaco editor playground monaco-editor#3247 @hediet
• Merge Editor: Provide a 4-editor view which also shows the base editor vscode#155277 @hediet