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Description
This plan captures our work in April 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early May.
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
- April 28, 2025: Endgame begins
- May 02, 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 JSON file as a policy backend on Linux vscode#148945 @joshspicer
- Allow a setting to open secondary sidebar by default vscode#191202 @bpasero
- Allow to set floating windows always on top vscode#200647 @bpasero
- Allow to set floating windows compact vscode#246411 @bpasero
Code Editor
- 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
- History persistence for notebook find widget vscode#238923 @Yoyokrazy
- Support drag and drop a cell output into the chat vscode#245364 @Yoyokrazy
- Improve large code cell execution experience vscode#246358 @Yoyokrazy
- 🏃 Explore rendering outputs in separate pane/view/editor vscode#143244 @Yoyokrazy @amunger
Languages / Python
- Implement package install with permissions for Python Environments vscode-python-environments#136 @karthiknadig @eleanorjboyd
- 🏃 UX and feedback for Shell Startup Environment Activation vscode-python-environments#227 @karthiknadig
- Fast create for Python Environments (for notebooks, PEP723, etc) vscode-python-environments#258 @karthiknadig
-
uvin python devcontainers vscode-python#24961 @karthiknadig - 💪 Get python for users with no python installed vscode-python#24963 @karthiknadig
- Update Python Environments README.md vscode-python-environments#259 @cwebster-99
- 🏃 "New project" for python work @eleanorjboyd
- use built-in templates,
uv,poetry,condato create new project templates forflask,fastapi,django,python package, andpep 723 style scriptvscode-python-environments#285 @eleanorjboyd - connect "New Project" to
/newfor copilot vscode-python-environments#286 @eleanorjboyd @bhavyaus
- use built-in templates,
- Redesign python environment tool and implement this tool and a package install tool for copilot vscode-python-environments#284 @eleanorjboyd
- Add support for branch coverage to python testing vscode-python#24976 @eleanorjboyd
Source Control
- Support diffing all changes in quick diff decorations vscode#60389 @lszomoru
- Experiment with single repo SCM view vscode#245346 @lszomoru
Terminal
- ✋ 🏃 PATH issues when multiple extensions contribute environment vscode#245613 @anthonykim1
- Shell Environment load performance @anthonykim1 vscode#245695 @anthonykim1
- Nushell detection on Windows and Linux vscode#245698 @anthonykim1
- 🏃 Terminal REPL completions using LSP vscode#241167 @anthonykim1
Tasks
- None.
API
- 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- Support encoding-related utils in extension host vscode#242547 @bpasero
Extensions
- Enable extension signature verification by default on Linux vscode#239579 @sandy081
- Allow for ESM-extensions (NodeJS EH) vscode#245214 @jrieken
Extension Contributions
- GHPRI: Support Issue view vscode-pull-request-github#6765 @alexr00
GitHub Copilot
- 🏃 Improve agent mode including improved MCP support @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 Copilot Chat in web vscode#245860 @bpasero
- 🏃 MCP: Better discovery/registry and one-click installation flow vscode#245717 @sandy081
- Extensions tools: agentic ability to search and install extensions vscode#245864 @sandy081
Engineering
- 💪 🏃 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima
- Implement the full macOS build job in arm64 @lszomoru
- Parallelize sign and test tasks in Windows, macOS and Linux build jobs vscode#245344 @lszomoru
- 🏃 Support macOS jobs in PR builds vscode#245345 @lszomoru
- Ensure pipelines can be retriggered vscode#231139 @joaomoreno
- Inline Linux snap build job vscode#245876 @joaomoreno
Electron
- 🏃 Crash issues, see query @deepak1556
- Exploration: Electron 35 vscode#245420 @deepak1556
- Electron: Page content resizes with noticable delay electron#36280 @deepak1556
- 🏃 Failed to execute 'createScriptURL' on 'TrustedTypePolicy' vscode#240780 @deepak1556
- Migrate from unsupported paste execCommand in desktop vscode#239228 @deepak1556 @aiday-mar
Documentation
- 🏃 Update Copilot customization content vscode-docs/issues/8240 @ntrogh
- 🏃 Add guidance about using Copilot for notebooks vscode-docs#8239 @ntrogh
- ✋ Add guidance to API docs about running MCP server in extension vscode-docs#8216 @ntrogh
- 🏃 Polish BYOK content vscode-docs#8214 @ntrogh
Deferred
- 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
- Show
Checkout maincheckbox in PR creation view vscode-pull-request-github#6706 @alexr00 - 🏃 Update Conpty in VS Code vscode#224488 @Tyriar @deepak1556
- 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
- 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
- VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
- 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer
- ✋ Adopt pre-release extension query API support vscode#243072 @sandy081