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Description
This plan captures our work in March 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early April.
Since mid-December, GitHub Copilot has been available for free for everyone. This allows us to treat AI support as an out-of-the-box experience in VS Code. Consequently, going forward, we'll cover our client-side work for Copilot in this plan, similarly to how we have been tracking our work on our Remote Extensions over the last years.
Endgame
- March 24, 2025: Endgame begins
- March 28, 2025: 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
Workbench
- Support macOS Configuration Profiles as a policy backend vscode#148942 @joshspicer
- Adopt improved Settings editor search algorithm vscode#243091 @rzhao271
Code Editor
- 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
- 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
- 🏃 Add support for variable line heights vscode#147067 @aiday-mar
- 🏃 💪 Add support for multiple fonts in the editor vscode#237346 @aiday-mar
Notebook Editor / Jupyter Notebooks
- Shortcut for creating virtual environment with ipykernel preinstall for default Python interpreter on macOS/Linux @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#16481
- Bump minimal version of jupyter notebook document to 4.5 (supporting cell ids) vscode#243094 @amunger
Languages / Python
- 🏃 Implement package install with permissions for Python Environments vscode-python-environments#136 @eleanorjboyd @karthiknadig
- 🏃 Implement startup activation vscode-python#24759 @karthiknadig
- 💪 cpython upstream fix to adjust terminal cursor to correct place python#126131 @anthonykim1
Source Control
- 🔴 Support repository name in status bar @lszomoru
Terminal
- 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query @meganrogge @Tyriar
- 🏃 Terminal REPL completions using LSP vscode#241167 @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
- Finalize shell type API vscode#230165 @anthonykim1
- 🏃 Update Conpty in VS Code vscode#224488 @Tyriar @deepak1556
Tasks
- 🏃 Task status API vscode#241772 @meganrogge
API
- 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- Support encoding-related utils in extension host vscode#242547 @bpasero
Extensions
- Introduce new remote server flag to always redirect default extension installation to workbench vscode-remote-release#9994 @joshspicer
- ✋ Adopt pre-release extension query API support vscode#243072 @sandy081
- Adopt latest extension version API support vscode#243073 @sandy081
Extension Contributions
- Show
Checkout maincheckbox in PR creation view vscode-pull-request-github#6706 @alexr00
Remote Extension Contributions / SSH Extension
- 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer
GitHub Copilot
- 🔴 Improve Copilot Edits and agentic mode @kieferrm team
- 🔴 Improve next edit suggestions @alexdima team
- 🏃 Make language-specific context available to Copilot inline completions @dbaeumer
- 🏃 💪 Explore anchored quick widget for mouse interactions to attach context vscode#238095 @TylerLeonhardt
- 🏃 Support drag and drop images from web vscode#240025 @justschen
- Improve git commit message generation vscode-copilot-release#4877 @lszomoru
- Polish Copilot status bar indicator vscode#242548 @bpasero
Engineering
- 💪 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima
- 🔴 Implement the full macOS build job in arm64 @lszomoru
- 🔴 Support macOS jobs in PR builds @lszomoru
- Remove legacy server vscode#231623 @deepak1556
- Ensure pipelines can be retriggered vscode#231139 @joaomoreno
Electron
- 🏃 Ensure JS stacks are captured when window is unresponsive vscode#240178 @deepak1556
- 🏃 Electron: Page content resizes with noticable delay electron#36280 @deepak1556
- Reenable
PlzDedicatedWorkervscode#240180 @deepak1556
Documentation
- Update Copilot best practices doc vscode-docs#8013 @ntrogh
- 🏃 Restructure the User Guide ToC section vscode-docs#8126 @ntrogh
Deferred
- 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
- VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
- 🏃 Enable extension signature verification by default on Linux vscode#239579 @sandy081
- 💪 Explore computing the indentation level using tree-sitter's AST vscode#208985 @aiday-mar