Iteration Plan for February 2025

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in February 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early March.

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

• Feb 24, 2025: Endgame begins
• Feb 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
• Accessible inline values for notebook cell execution vscode#239124 @Yoyokrazy
• Ensure VS Code sends OS version to update server vscode#240248 @joaomoreno

Workbench

• 🏃 Support macOS Configuration Profiles as a policy backend vscode#148942 @joshspicer @sandy081
• 🏃 Support multitext string for Windows string policies vscode#237915 @sandy081

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
• 🏃 Set WordHighlighter delay to 0 by default vscode#239492 @Yoyokrazy

Notebook Editor

• Improve inline value default fallback quality vscode#238912 @Yoyokrazy
• Contribute custom hover to notebook execution and debugger inline values vscode#239259 @Yoyokrazy
• Explore inline diff view for notebook documents vscode#239635 @amunger

Jupyter Notebooks

• Improve Context key for execution/debug/run-by-line actions vscode-jupyter#16189 @Yoyokrazy
• 💪 Explore kernel persistence for Remote environments vscode-jupyter#16224 @DonJayamanne

Languages

Python

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

Source Control

• Investigate blame in editor gutter vscode#203841 @lszomoru
• Warn about diagnostics when committing vscode#240245 @lszomoru
• 🔴 Support sending files to trash when discarding untracked changes @lszomoru

Terminal

• 🏃 Leverage fig's shell parser vscode#239519 @meganrogge, @Tyriar
• 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query @meganrogge @Tyriar
• 🏃 Terminal Environment Variable API vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
• 🏃 Update conpty setting to v1.22 and enable in insiders vscode#225719 @Tyriar @deepak1556

Tasks

• 🏃 Add rerun task action to task terminals vscode#236972 @meganrogge

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• Provide encoding-related APIs for editor extensions vscode#824 @bpasero

Extensions

• 🏃 Enable extension signature verification by default on Linux vscode#239579 @sandy081
• 🏃 Install extensions in workbench that fail to install from remote code-server vscode#238815 @joshspicer

Extension Contributions

• Support custom Copilot instructions in GHPRI vscode-copilot-release#3034 @alexr00

Remote Extension Contributions

SSH Extension

• 💪 Better proxy support for remote (install, download extensions, etc) vscode-remote-release#5927, vscode-remote-release#10491 @joshspicer
• 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer

GitHub Copilot

• 🏃 Consolidate Copilot status bar items vscode#237428 @bpasero
• 🔴 Improve Copilot Edits including agentic mode @kieferrm team
• 🔴 Improve next edit suggestions @alexdima team
• 🏃 Make language-specific context available to Copilot inline completions vscode-copilot-release#3976 @dbaeumer
• 🔴 Improve prompt file support @legomushroom
• 🔴 Explore anchored quick widget for mouse interactions to attach context @TylerLeonhardt
• Improvements for image attachments query @justschen
• Improve git commit message generation vscode-copilot-release#4877 @lszomoru

Engineering

• 💪 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima

Electron

• Exploration: Electron 34 vscode#237437 @deepak1556
• Deprecate macOS 10.15 vscode#232993 @deepak1556
• Ensure cache headers are respected for vscode-file:// resources vscode#148541 @deepak1556
• Ensure JS stacks are captured when window is unresponsive vscode#240178 @deepak1556
• Electron: Page content resizes with noticable delay electron#36280 @deepak1556
• Reenable PlzDedicatedWorker vscode#240180 @deepak1556

Documentation

• Optimize getting started docs section for new users vscode-docs#8012 @ntrogh
• Update Copilot best practices doc vscode-docs#8013 @ntrogh
• Refresh Debugging user guide vscode-docs#8014 @ntrogh
• Refresh IntelliSense user guide vscode-docs#7986 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer

[iwangbowen]

Couldn't wait to see the new update ☺️

[gjsjohnmurray]

Missing in action - last seen in the September 2024 Iteration Plan:

🙏 Please resurrect hope for those of us who have been (im)patiently waiting for more than 5 years for these APIs to finalize:

• FileSearchProvider API - Stabilize FileSearchProvider API #73524
• TextSearchProvider API - Stabilize TextSearchProvider API #59921

pinging @osortega