This plan captures our work in November. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early December. Heads-up, we’ll use the month of December for our annual house keeping iterations. So, this is the plan for the last stable release of the year.

Endgame

• November 28, 2022: Endgame begins
• December 2, 2022: 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 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) team
• Improve accessibility of Setting indicators vscode#159088 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Fix accessibility issues in the welcome page query Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)

UX

• Identify Getting Started walkthrough improvements vscode#165846 David Dossett (@daviddossett) Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• 🏃 Explore surfacing the remote experiences on the welcome page vscode-internalbacklog#3276 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Provide guidance for usage of Quick Pick titles vscode#158895 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• Identify improvements to workbench usability and aesthetic vscode#115641 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• 🏃 Explore updated built-in themes vscode#164924 David Dossett (@daviddossett)

Workbench

• Exploration: Sharing profiles vscode#159891 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Allow hiding of badges for view containers vscode#158781 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Support exclusions for the explorer’s autoReveal behavior vscode#136905 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Investigate issue with users getting stuck in restricted mode vscode#161362 SteVen Batten (@sbatten)
• Swap Continue On item picker and asking for auth order vscode#165409 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Remove mention of edit sessions from: vscode#165408 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Surface Continue On in more places vscode#165406 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)

Web

WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Provide pluggable device drivers in WASM-WASI vscode-wasm#28Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 💪 Explore provide a web-shell shell-engine-js#1 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Code Editor

• Explore accepting parts of an inline completion proposal vscode#140708 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Explore moving tokenization to a web worker vscode#147066 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Have a setting to not focus suggestions vscode#151336 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Merge Editor

• Participate in undo stack vscode#158864 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Replace “Mark as Handled” with “Ignore” actions vscode#165696 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Explore a built-in variables viewer vscode#165445 roblourens
• 🏃 Enable scrollable notebook outputs vscode-jupyter#7096 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 💪 Drop NotebookContentProvider usage in the Interactive Window vscode#165252 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Use consistent origin in backlayer webview for notebooks to improve caching vscode#145567 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Help users diagnose notebook rendering perf issues vscode#154873 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Improvements to notebook opening performance query Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Allow searching dirty changes in open notebook editors in global search vscode#95275 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Allow searching rich content in notebooks in global search vscode#164926 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)

Jupyter Notebooks

• Contributions to the vscode-jupyter extension vscode-jupyter#11922 team

Languages

Language Server Protocol

• Publish new LSP release Fixed issue Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Python

• Contributions to the python extension vscode-python#20161 Brett Cannon (@brettcannon) team

Python WebAssembly Runtime Support

• Implement a debug device driver for Python Branch Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Help getting pdb work in the web PR Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• 🏃 Explore automatic type acquisition on web typescript#45314 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Debug

• Implement StartDebugging DAP request vscode#160169 roblourens
• Provide support for console.profile vscode-js-debug#1443 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Debug Adapter Protocol

• EOF behavior debug-adapter-protocol#239 Connor Peet (@connor4312) roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• 🏃 Memory reuse debug-adapter-protocol#238 Connor Peet (@connor4312) roblourens Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Testing

• 💪 Related code vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• 💪 Auto run tests vscode#134941 Connor Peet (@connor4312)

Comments

• Additional actions in the Comment Thread vscode#163281 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Terminal

• Allow extensions to contribute terminal quick fixes vscode#145234 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Adopt editor quick fix widget for terminal quick fixes vscode#162067 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Tasks

• Add run task action to terminal dropdown vscode#162469 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Investigate duplicate build tasks vscode#159640 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

Source Control

• Explore implementing certain git status operations without spawning git vscode#64234 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Responsive UI updates handling of slow status updates in large mono repos vscode#162417 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• SCM: Notification API vscode#161200 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Git: Improve unsafe repository warning vscode#157159 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

API

• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Continue finalization of remaining proposed notebook API vscode#149861 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Peng Lyu (@rebornix) roblourens
• Improve Extensions logging vscode#159892 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions vscode-remote-release#7479 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Christof Marti (@chrmarti) Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Improvements to the GitHub Repositories extension query Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)
• Live Preview: Add option to specify which external browser vscode-livepreview#69 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Live Preview: Add option to specify the root path of the server vscode-livepreview#155 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• 🏃 Fix preview of forwarded ports in Codespaces for Simple Browser and Live Preview vscode-livepreview#111 Andrea Mah (@andreamah) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• GHPRI: Show PR review status vscode-pull-request-github#681 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• GHPRI: Improve activation performance vscode-pull-request-github#4053 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 💪 GHPRI: Support GitHub’s suggested changes vscode-pull-request-github#603 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

Performance

• Introduce an Input Latency telemetry event vscode#163184 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Explore migrating from AMD to ESM vscode#160416 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
  • Explore using esbuild for transpilation / bundling Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
  • Explore AMD lazy code loading vscode#164068 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • 🔴 Explore splitting main AMD bundle in multiple files Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• 🏃 Investigate moving away from the styler pattern vscode#165478 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Explore mangling of private & protected properties in the codebase vscode#166126 vscode#165429 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Investigate reducing the size of the authentication extensions vscode#165728 TylerLeonhardt
• Explore improving the loading performance of the Jupyter extension (packing, splitting) vscode-jupyter#11996 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Why is the npm extension using workspaceContains:package.json? vscode#163480 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Generate implicit activation events from extension package.json contributions vscode#164701 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081) Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Add a new onNotebookSerializer:* vscode#134127 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Explore setTimeout for onStartupFinished extensions vscode#164593 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• 🏃 Explore running Remote Repositories in a dedicated extension host in vscode.dev vscode-internalbacklog#3204 Joyce Er (@joyceerhl)
• Load language wasm files on demand vscode-anycode#53 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Eliminate first request to update server on vscode.dev Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Generate <script> and <link> tags server-side on vscode.dev vscode-dev#454 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Web: Cache gallery extension resources vscode#165817 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Engineering

• Convert LSP and WASM to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Electron

• Enable AutoDisableAccessibility Chromium runtime flag vscode#162331 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Main Request service is throwing errors for valid requests vscode#155204 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Investigate Electron 22 upgrade vscode#166265 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Backport getPreferredSystemLanguages API in Electron electron#36035 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• Adopt display language as locale for electron to properly display WCO vscode#159958 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)

Documentation

• 🏃 Update Azure Content, ToC vscode-docs#5614 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Update repo locations in Dev Container docs vscode-docs#5736 Brigit Murtaugh (@bamurtaugh) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

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Deferred

• Support profiles in remote workspaces vscode#165247 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Settings Editor performance improvements query Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Investigate ways to reduce the performance cost of max results in search vscode#127621 Andrea Mah (@andreamah)
• Adopt webpack for emmet-helper microsoft/vscode-emmet-helper#27 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Update source control documentation to include the merge editor vscode-docs#5618 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Add an Git introductory page vscode-docs#5677 Harald Kirschner (@digitarald)
• Restructure and refresh dev containers docs within new Dev Containers node vscode-docs#5737 Brigit Murtaugh (@bamurtaugh) Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Convert LSIF to the new npm publish pipeline #3191 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Explore how to better express view display styles (tree versus list) vscode#162595 David Dossett (@daviddossett)
• Explore possibility of unifying explorer selection in focus behind a setting Logan Ramos (@lramos15)
• Sandboxing: Explore adopting utility process for shared process vscode#154050 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero) Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 White flashing when opening a new window vscode#132339 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271) Robo (@deepak1556)
• Review and update Configure C++ Debugging topic vscode-docs#5518 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• 💪 Explore ways to improve interacting with root files and folders in a crowded explorer view Logan Ramos (@lramos15) vscode#151630\
• 💪 Stabilize DocumentPasteEditProvider API to support pasting images vscode#30066 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)