This plan captures our work in October. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship our October Update in early November. After this iteration, there will be one more iteration this year. It will also be 5 weeks long, and we’ll ship the November Update in the first half of December.

After our focus was limited on issue housekeeping, we now also look at features again. For example, we’ll work on dynamic menubar and multi-line search support, and we’ll explore more flexible workbench layouts. We also keep improving the GitHub Pull Request extension so that we are ready to meet you at Github Universe.

Endgame

• October 29th, 2018: Code freeze for the endgame
• November 2nd, 2018: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #62045.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Accessibility

• Improve screenreader support for focus changes in terminals Terminal: NVDA does not announce any information when a terminal gets added or deleted #52304 Alex Ross (@alexr00) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Improve tabbing order in extensions view in screenreader mode Accessibility: Extension list items in the installed extensions treeview are in the tab order. #51496 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Workbench

• Provide dynamic menubar support on all platforms Reenable dynamic menus on macOS in Insiders #58928 enable dynamic menu on linux/windows #59936 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Add support for multi-line file search Support multi-line search for Global search #13155 roblourens
• Improve sidebar/panel navigation Add sidebarFocus, panelFocus, a real editorFocus and focus for each view #59858 Pine (@octref)
• Improve centered layout Bring back old Centered Layout behavior #53989 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Support option to emphasize modified editor tabs more Highlight modified tabs #26284 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore a viewlet that shows search reference results make finding all references more user-friendly #22261 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Explore flexible panel/sidebar layout Investigate to rewrite workbench layout using grid widget #50853 SteVen Batten (@sbatten) João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Notifications – Revisit when a notification persists or disappears (related Hide notifications (info, warning) even when showing buttons #51013 Support command links in notifications #46571) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support for ‘Simple Full Screen’ mode on OS X (do not open a new ‘space’) Simple fullscreen support #5344 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Terminal

• Support maintaining context when splitting terminals Allow split terminal to inherit working directory from previous terminal #48447 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 💪 Support conpty on Windows Windows terminal issues caused by winpty #45693 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Tasks

• Add new setting for clearing terminal when running a task Task>Presentation should allow to clear the terminal output. #30058 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Source Control

• Allow SourceControl implementations to hide the SourceControlInputBox SCM: Allow SourceControl implementations to hide the SourceControlInputBox #51808 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Languages

• Use icons from file icon themes for completion items of kind file Path Completion: Use File Icon for suggestions #44860 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript maintenance release 3.1.x Adopt TypeScript 3.1.4 #60814 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Debug

• Multiple debug consoles, switch between outputs Switching between debugs outputs. #31377 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Collapse skipped stack frames into one node Support collapsing stack frames #50334 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• LoadedScripts View support to show related resources, e.g. TS source for JS scripts LoadedScripts view: support to show related resources #62034 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Investigate in webpacking the node-debug extension Use webpack for node-debug2 #59237 Andre Weinand (@weinand) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) roblourens
• F10 and F11 should start debugging with stopAtEntry:true F10 and F11 should start debugging with stopAtEntry:true #49855 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Migrate vscode-tslint to use tslint as a TS server plugin Todo typescript-tslint-plugin#1 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• GitHub PR extension Plan for October 2018 vscode-pull-request-github#544 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• 🏃 Sheppard performance improvement PRs through xterm.js Buffer performance improvements xtermjs/xterm.js#791 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Extensions

• Provide sample search extension to get feedback on performance and API Publish test search extension #60207 roblourens

API

• Custom tree view: Proposed API to expand/collapse tree items API to expand/collapse custom TreeItems #55879 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Custom tree view: Proposed API to support partial highlight of tree item labels TreeItem should support highlights #61313 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Engineering

• Electron 2.0.11 adoption electron@2.0.11 #60143 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Continue Electron 3.0 adoption, migrate local storage Explore update to Electron 3 #52629 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• 🔴 Tree widget performance improvements & filtering support João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Adopt new tree widget in Problems view João Moreno (@joaomoreno) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 🏃 WinJS.Promise removal WinJS.Promise removal plan #53526 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) team
• 🏃 💪 Strict null checking VS Code Strict null checking VS Code #60565 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) team
• 🔴 Perf – investigate into web pack bundling support for extensions Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Documentation

• Overhaul extensibility documentation Plan for migrating VS Code API docs vscode-docs#1949 Pine (@octref) team
• Normalize samples Plan for normalizing samples vscode-extension-samples#110 Pine (@octref) team

Deferred Items

• Allow for case-sensitive/insensitive file system providers Case-sensitivity and file system providers #48258 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)