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

Endgame

• September 23, 2024: Endgame begins
• September 27, 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:

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 @meganrogge team
• alt+f1 in standalone editor monaco-editor#4583 @hediet @meganrogge
• Allow focusing the suggestion details vscode#190096 @jrieken

Workbench

• Provide a way to sent ad-hoc notifications for Insiders users vscode#227321 @bpasero
• Tree: Support contributable find providers vscode#212077 @benibenj
• Support setting(my-setting-id) syntax in Release Notes editor vscode#228736 @alexr00
• Support a workspace table in profiles editor vscode#228087 @sandy081

Code Editor

• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
• 🏃 Make EditContext the default input strategy vscode#228093 @aiday-mar @hediet
• Syntax highlighting for inline completions vscode#225400 @hediet
• Release Monaco Editor @aiday-mar @hediet

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Review REPL/IW Accessibility vscode#209140 @amunger
• 🏃 Support core actions (type/cut/paste/delete/undo/redo) for multi cursors (cmd+d) across cells vscode#141673 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Clean up and review usage of notebook context menu (telemetry + proposal) vscode#219240 @Yoyokrazy
• Notebook diff: support collapsing unmodified lines in cell input/metadata editor vscode#227927 @DonJayamanne
• Notebook diff: support rendering notebook document metadata changes vscode#208280 @DonJayamanne

Search

• 🏃 Prepare FileSearchProvider API for finalization vscode#73524 @andreamah
• 🏃 Prepare TextSearchProvider API for finalization vscode#59921 @andreamah

Languages

Python

• Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team

Authentication

• Add UX for switching accounts for extensions vscode#225943 @TylerLeonhardt

Testing

• 💪 Finalize attributable test coverage API vscode#212196 @connor4312
• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312

Debug

• 💪 Find in output vscode#225417 @meganrogge
• 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge

Debug Adapter Protocol

• Support for ANSI styling debug-adapter-protocol#500 @connor4312

Terminal

• 🏃 API to expose the shell's actual environment to extensions vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
• 🏃 💪 Add support for terminal suggest in zsh/bash vscode#226562 @meganrogge

Source Control

• Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge
• Polish multi-repository scenario in SCM Graph view vscode#227211 @lszomoru
• Support selecting branches in SCM Graph view vscode#227213 @lszomoru
• Polish hover and context menu action in SCM Graph commits vscode#227214 @lszomoru

API

• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• Make repository signature verification blocking vscode#223942 @sandy081 @isidorn
• Support update extensions across profiles vscode#193446 @sandy081
• Dependent extension is not activated if the depending extension gets activated after getting updated vscode#226660 @sandy081
• Improve extension incompatibility UX vscode#227047 @sandy081
• 🏃 Change the global fetch available in local extension hosts to be the one from Electron vscode#228696 @chrmarti

Remote Extension Contributions

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

SSH Extension

• remote.SSH.connectTimeout overrides ConnectTimeout from config file vscode-remote-release#8519 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Catalog configurations for remote testing vscode-remote-release#10248 @joshspicer

Engineering

• Finish AMD to ESM migration vscode#160416 @bpasero @jrieken
• Support building the monaco-editor ESM variant from new sources vscode#227192 @bpasero @hediet
• Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources @hediet @alexdima
• Support blocking startup on pending update vscode#227322 @bpasero
• Stabilize FS watcher issues vscode#216825 @bpasero

Electron

• 🏃 Crash when searching in extension preview editor vscode#177046 @rzhao271
• Electron 32 update vscode#218245 @deepak1556
• 🏃 Support for V8 sandbox in the extension host vscode#202385 @deepak1556

Documentation

• Update Getting Started experience doc vscode-docs#7359 @ntrogh
• Explore updated Docs landing page to improve call-to-actions vscode-docs#7544 @ntrogh @daviddossett @bamurtaugh
• Refresh Workspace Trust article vscode-docs#7545 @ntrogh
• Describe Application settings vscode-docs#7480 @ntrogh
• Revisit Doc Writer profile template vscode-docs#7546 @ntrogh
• Update Tips & Tricks to include product walkthroughs vscode-docs#7547 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• Exploration on how to improve the diff algorithm vscode#227928 @DonJayamanne
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
• Audit error handling vscode-remote-release#10249 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Create suggestions from working tree changes vscode-pull-request-github#5256 @alexr00
• 🏃 Proposal for cleaning up our context menus vscode#225411 @daviddossett
• Support for blame inline decorations vscode#203841 @lszomoru
• 💪 Add setting to control rendering of multi-line inline completions vscode#225399 @hediet