Iteration Plan for March 2025

[kieferrm]

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

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

• March 24, 2025: Endgame begins
• March 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

Workbench

• 🏃 Support macOS Configuration Profiles as a policy backend vscode#148942 @joshspicer
• Adopt improved Settings editor search algorithm vscode#243091 @rzhao271

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
  • 🏃 🔴 Support injected languages: TypeScript + RegExp @alexr00
  • 🔴 Add CSS tree-sitter grammar @alexr00
• 🏃 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

Notebook Editor / Jupyter Notebooks

• Shortcut for creating virtual environment with ipykernel preinstall for default Python interpreter on macOS/Linux @DonJayamanne vscode-jupyter#16481
• Bump minimal version of jupyter notebook document to 4.5 (supporting cell ids) vscode#243094 @amunger

Languages / Python

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

Source Control

• 🔴 Support repository name in status bar @lszomoru

Terminal

• 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query @meganrogge @Tyriar
• Terminal REPL completions using LSP vscode#241167 @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
• Finalize shell type API vscode#230165 @anthonykim1

Tasks

• Task status API vscode#241772 @meganrogge

API

• 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• Support encoding-related utils in extension host vscode#242547 @bpasero

Extensions

• 🔴 Introduce new remote server flag to always redirect default extension installation to workbench @joshspicer
• Adopt pre-release extension query API support vscode#243072 @sandy081
• Adopt latest extension version API support vscode#243073 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Show Checkout main checkbox in PR creation view vscode-pull-request-github#6706 @alexr00

Remote Extension Contributions / SSH Extension

• 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer

GitHub Copilot

• 🔴 Improve Copilot Edits and agentic mode @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 drag and drop images from web vscode#240025 @justschen
• Improve git commit message generation vscode-copilot-release#4877 @lszomoru
• Polish Copilot status bar indicator vscode#242548 @bpasero

Engineering

• 💪 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima
• 🔴 Implement the full macOS build job in arm64 @lszomoru
• 🔴 Support macOS jobs in PR builds @lszomoru
• Remove legacy server vscode#231623 @deepak1556
• Ensure pipelines can be retriggered vscode#231139 @joaomoreno

Electron

• 🏃 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

• 🏃 Update Copilot best practices doc vscode-docs#8013 @ntrogh
• Restructure the User Guide ToC section vscode-docs#8126 @ntrogh

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Deferred

• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
• VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer
• 🏃 Enable extension signature verification by default on Linux vscode#239579 @sandy081
• 💪 Explore computing the indentation level using tree-sitter's AST vscode#208985 @aiday-mar

[iwangbowen]

Always looking forward to new features🫠

[gjsjohnmurray]

Another iteration of disappointment

#240160 (comment)

[BartolomeSintes]

Could you pin this issue, as usual? Thanks