This plan captures our work in April. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early May.

Endgame

• April 24, 2023: Endgame begins
• April 28, 2023: 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

• Improve command palette input box screen reader experience vscode#176081 @TylerLeonhardt
• Inline suggestions are read twice by screen reader vscode#177696 @hediet
• Set Selection Anchor and Select from Anchor to Cursor does not work in a11y terminal buffer vscode#177029 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Notebook output accessibility vscode#178630 @amunger
• allowNavigateToSurroundingCells should be false when screen reader is detected vscode#176286 @meganrogge
• Notebook cell complete audio cue didn't play if kernel was selected in same execution action vscode#176284 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team
• 🏃 Custom dialog does not properly return focus to webView vscode#170442 @sbatten @mjbvz

Workbench

• Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081
• 🏃 Support Dev Containers and WSL in new Connect to... experience on Welcome Page vscode-remote-release#8251 @bhavyaus @aeschli @chrmarti
• 🏃 Improve the keybinding recording widget vscode#178042 vscode#179015 vscode#179018 @ulugbekna
• 🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt
• Address performance regression in insiders vscode#177257 @bpasero
• Explore flatten "Continue On" options in Terminal welcome view vscode#179013 @joyceerhl
• Improve "Continue On" sign-in flow vscode#179012 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Support roaming open editors and notebook kernel state in "Continue On" vscode#179898 @joyceerhl @rebornix
• 🏃 Change default light and dark themes to the v2 themes vscode#179688 @aeschli @daviddossett

Code Editor

• Roll out async tokenization and add correctness assertions behind setting vscode#179133 @hediet
• Deprecate smart diffing algorithm in favor of experimental diffing algorithm vscode#164583 @hediet
• 💪 Collapse unchanged regions in diff vscode#3562 @hediet
• Accept inline completion words across lines vscode#172162 @hediet
• Allow inline providers to opt in to showing inline completions at the same time as completions vscode#179134 @hediet
• 🏃 Make editor hovers resizable vscode#14165 @aiday-mar
• 🏃 Allow using the color picker without a color region vscode#52364 @aiday-mar
• Monaco Editor Release 0.37.0 @hediet

Notebook Editor

• Allow toggling scrollable outputs per cell vscode#174951 @amunger
• Polish global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah
• 🏃 Static resources fail to load in Notebook renderer with 401 error vscode#175033 @mjbvz
• 💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger
• Support dynamic profile switching vscode#179224 @rebornix @bpasero
• Explore supporting replace while markdown cells are in preview mode vscode#179320 @rebornix

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#13250 team

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Finish up multi thread support for WASM-WASI threads vscode-wasm#45 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Convert Python WASM-WASI extension to the new library extension vscode-python-web-wasm#47 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20971 @brettcannon team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Project-wide IntelliSense on the web vscode#170920 @mjbvz
• TypeScript 5.1 move to existing file support typescript#29988 @mjbvz
• TypeScript 5.1 jsx mirror cursor support typescript#51832 @mjbvz

Language Server Protocol

• 🏃 Investigate to extract a base protocol definition out of the LS protocol 1707 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Support that servers can read from remote file systems 1264 @rchiodo / @dbaeumer

Source Control

• Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 @lszomoru
• SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 @lszomoru
• Handle push errors more gracefully vscode#178990 @lszomoru
• ⬛ vscode#179000 Exploration: Changes editor @lszomoru
• 💪 Surface Dependabot alerts in workbench vscode#178991 @lszomoru

Terminal

• Allow specifying workspace-specific environment variables via EnvironmentVariableCollection vscode#171173 @karrtikr @Tyriar
• Allow to provide description to environment collection API vscode#171108 @karrtikr
• 🏃 Finalize proposed APIs for environment workspace collection vscode#171108 @karrtikr
• 🏃 Allow EnvironmentVariableCollection API to apply changes via shell integration vscode#179476 @Tyriar @karrtikr

Testing

• Expose selection and profile of the test explorer vscode#179065 @connor4312
• Allow to watch subsets of tests vscode#178973 @connor4312
• Better indicators for what tests are running continuously vscode#178973 @connor4312
• 💪 Support for ANSI colors in test output vscode#151964 @connor4312
• 💪 Start drafting a retired test item API vscode#134970 @connor4312

vscode.dev

• 💪 Opening vscode.dev should not require a browser reload to update web extensions vscode#174682 @sandy081

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt

Extensions

• Show the publisher in notifications whenever we recommend extensions 179004 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti vscode-remote-release#8314 @aeschli @joyceerhl @connor4312
• 🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @hbons
• Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 @alexr00
• 💪 Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 @alexr00
• GHPR: Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 @alexr00

Engineering

• 🏃 💪 Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 @Tyriar @bpasero
• Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable vscode-internalbacklog#3456 @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald

Electron

• ⬛ Update to Electron 22 vscode#166265 @deepak1556 @bpasero @rzhao271

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Deferred

• Explore alternative wording for "Continue On" explanations vscode#180106 @hbons
• Exploration: Cross-profile settings and extensions vscode#176813 vscode#157492@sandy081
• Show existing tunnels on Welcome page in vscode.dev vscode#179687 @bhavyaus @aeschli @connor4312
• Support experimental contextual non-modal dialogs to educate users on web experiences vscode#179401 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett
• Walkthrough images load slowly vscode#166890 @bhavyaus
• UX to alert users of a slow remote connection vscode#178553 @bpasero
• Support scrollable outputs for streaming text vscode#177721 @amunger @mjbvz
• Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah
• Explore prompting to enable Cloud Changes on save in web vscode#179014 @joyceerhl
• Investigation: Azure DevOps multi-tenant support vscode-remote-repositories-github#241 @lszomoru
• Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312
• Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556
• Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599
• Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @Tyriar
• Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @Tyriar
• ✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) @hediet @alexdima
• ✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556
• 💪 Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556
• Add support for running macros vscode#871 @ulugbekna
• Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 @ulugbekna