This plan captures our work in March. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in late March.

Endgame

• March 20, 2023: Endgame begins
• March 24, 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:

Accessibility

• Dynamically update the terminal accessible buffer vscode#172582 @meganrogge

  Add symbol provider for terminal accessible buffer vscode#174079 @meganrogge

  Explore improviding accessibility for inline completions vscode#176501 @hediet @meganrogge

  Command palette placeholder text accessibility vscode#166920 @TylerLeonhardt

  Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @isidorn team
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UX

• Refine updated built-in themes vscode#164924 @daviddossett

  🏃 Explore improvements to the extensions list vscode#151599 @esonnino
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Workbench

• 🏃 Built-in Profiles vscode#166359 @isidorn @sandy081 @esonnino

  🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page vscode#173396 @bhavyaus

  🏃 Introduce an experimental modal welcome for web experiences vscode#171190 @bhavyaus @joyceerhl @daviddossett

  🏃 Improvements to Getting Started experience query @bhavyaus

  Make it easier to get sharing links vscode#175676 @joyceerhl

  Support parenthesis in context keys vscode#91473 @ulugbekna @jrieken

  Improve rendering of command palette when it is scrollable vscode#173851 @TylerLeonhardt

  Fix delay when opening the accounts menu vscode#111398 @TylerLeonhardt

  🏃 Explore support for multiple GitHub accounts vscode#127967 @TylerLeonhardt

  Logging is slow in web vscode#172336 @sandy081
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Code Editor

• Polish the interplay between intellisense and inline suggestions vscode#131940 @hediet @isidorn

  Add keyboard navigation to Sticky Scroll vscode#169107 @aiday-mar

  Allow configuring Sticky Scroll data provider vscode#162904 @aiday-mar

  Polish and enable async tokenization vscode#176499 @hediet

  ✋ Add elided text (editor core subset of vscode#170447) @hediet @alexdima

  Show markers at the top of editor hovers vscode#73120 @aiday-mar

  Scroll editor hovers using arrow keys vscode#69836 @aiday-mar

  🏃 Make editor hovers resizeable vscode#14165 @aiday-mar

  💪 Explore workaround for missing wheel event on iPad vscode#164220 @hediet

  Monaco Editor issue grooming @hediet

  Monaco Editor Release 0.36.1 @hediet
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Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Polish and enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#4406 @amunger

  💪 Align closing behavior of the Interactive Window with Untitled Files vscode#172974 @amunger

  Enable find in output by default vscode#174969 @rebornix

  🏃 Explore how to stop hanging network request from preventing the opening of notebooks vscode#166860 @mjbvz

  Introduce global search options for open notebooks vscode#164926 @andreamah

  Introduce onWillSaveNotebookDocument event to support run or format on save vscode#157844, vscode#130799 @rebornix
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Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#12994 team
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WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 Prepare WASI implementation for WASM threads @dbaeumer

  🔴 Translate core utils to WASM/WASI @connor4312

  💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 @dbaeumer @Tyriar
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Languages

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20796 @brettcannon team
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Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• 🏃 Explore support for statically linking and loading native modules @dbaeumer @brettcannon

  🏃 ⬛ How do users find packages that work in CPython WASI? issue; @brettcannon
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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
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Source Control

• Git - Deprecate Repository.refs property to improve performance vscode#170838 @lszomoru
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Terminal

• 🏃 Support external terminals as a default for WSL sessions vscode#167865 @Tyriar

  🏃 Continue pwsh autocomplete vscode#154662 @Tyriar

  🏃 Improvements to the environment collection API vscode#171173 vscode#171108 @karrtikr @Tyriar

  Provide API to set the terminal title and description vscode#171175 @karrtikr @Tyriar
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Comments

• ReviewZoneWidget makes duplicate calls to show() + hide() vscode#174263 @alexr00
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vscode.dev

• None.

API

• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

  API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz

  Remove the notebookControllerKind API Proposal vscode#168535 @mjbvz @rebornix

  Finalize static preloads notebook contribution vscode#163511 @mjbvz

  🏃 Explore support for extensions to provide additional data to the issue reporter vscode#46726 @TylerLeonhardt
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Extensions

• Improve user experience when installing an extension fails with signature verification vscode#173685 @sandy081

  Support extension recommendation based on regex matching file contents vscode#176768 @sandy081
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Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#8139 @eleanorjboyd @chrmarti @aeschli @joyceerhl @connor4312

  🏃 Exploration: Re-think PR creation flow vscode-pull-request-github#4403 @alexr00 @daviddossett

  ✋ 🏃 Add Team Reviewers to Pull Request vscode-pull-request-github#1126 @alexr00

  Make it very obvious when the rate limit has been hit vscode-pull-request-github#4546 @alexr00

  Have a setting for enabling auto merge by default vscode-pull-request-github#4308 @alexr00

  Allow me to checkout a PR in vscode.dev from the GHPRI PR view vscode-pull-request-github#4500 @alexr00 @joyceerhl

  💪 Respect git's pullBeforeCheckout setting for githubPullRequests.postCreate vscode-pull-request-github#4450 @alexr00
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Performance

• Defer eager activation events till initial events have settled vscode#171135 @joyceerhl

  ✋ ⬛ PGO for VSCode Desktop vscode#170931 @deepak1556

  🏃 UI stalls and freezes when searching single whitespace vscode#171436 @andreamah
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Install

• Update snap package to use base: vscode#119436 @deepak1556
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Engineering

Electron

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

  Electron Upgrades-WG roll champion (03/13 - 03/20) @deepak1556

  💪 Orca can't be stopped in native dialogs vscode#121811 @deepak1556

  💪 Right Click acting abnormal vscode#113175 @deepak1556
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Documentation

• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 @gregvanl @hediet

  Review and update Terminal Basics (git bash setup from verbatims) vscode-docs#6108 @gregvanl
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Deferred

• ⚫ Add support for running macros vscode#871 @ulugbekna

  ⚫ Add support for recording macros vscode#4490 @ulugbekna

  🔴 UX to alert users of a slow remote connection @bpasero

  🔴 Sandboxing: Investigate increased extension host crash rate in stable @bpasero @deepak1556 @digitarald

  Explore smart global search for notebooks in the workspace vscode#173726 @andreamah

  Git Status Updates Are Blocking vscode#168453 @lszomoru

  SCM - Add document property to expose the text document vscode#171504 @lszomoru

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

  Adopt utility process in terminal/pty host vscode#175335 @Tyriar @bpasero

  🔴 Explore improvements on how to manage accounts @esonnino

  🔴 Publish ProtoPie interactive components file for VS Code extensions @esonnino

  💪 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 @jrieken @alexdima

  🏃 Defer onStartupFinished activation vscode#164593 @joyceerhl

  🔴 💪 Investigate slow stacks reported to telemetry, ramp up the experiment @jrieken

  Improving the developer experience for the CLI within the vscode repo vscode#171515 @aeschli @connor4312

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