Iteration Plan for March 2025 #243015

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.

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Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team

Workbench

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

Code Editor

• 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 Alex Ross (@alexr00) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
  • Support injected languages: TypeScript + RegExp vscode#244441 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
  • Add CSS tree-sitter grammar vscode#244442 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• 🏃 Add support for variable line heights vscode#147067 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• 🏃 💪 Add support for multiple fonts in the editor vscode#237346 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)

Notebook Editor / Jupyter Notebooks

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

Languages / Python

• 🏃 Implement package install with permissions for Python Environments vscode-python-environments#136 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Implement startup activation vscode-python#24759 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 💪 cpython upstream fix to adjust terminal cursor to correct place python#126131 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Source Control

• Support repository name in status bar vscode#244255 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Terminal

• 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• 🏃 Terminal REPL completions using LSP vscode#241167 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1) Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Finalize shell type API vscode#230165 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃 Update Conpty in VS Code vscode#224488 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Robo (@deepak1556)

Tasks

• Task status API vscode#241772 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

API

• API proposals: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• API finalization: query Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support encoding-related utils in extension host vscode#242547 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Extensions

• Introduce new remote server flag to always redirect default extension installation to workbench vscode-remote-release#9994 joshspicer
• ✋ Adopt pre-release extension query API support vscode#243072 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Adopt latest extension version API support vscode#243073 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extension Contributions

• Show Checkout main checkbox in PR creation view vscode-pull-request-github#6706 Alex Ross (@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 Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm) team
• Improve next edit suggestions Alexandru Dima (@alexdima) team
• 🏃 Make language-specific context available to Copilot inline completions Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• 🏃 💪 Explore anchored quick widget for mouse interactions to attach context vscode#238095 TylerLeonhardt
• Support drag and drop images from web vscode#240025 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Improve git commit message generation vscode-copilot-release#4877 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Polish Copilot status bar indicator vscode#242548 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)

Engineering

• 💪 🏃 Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Alexandru Dima (@alexdima)
• ✋ 🔴 Implement the full macOS build job in arm64 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• ✋ 🔴 Support macOS jobs in PR builds Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Remove legacy server vscode#231623 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Ensure pipelines can be retriggered vscode#231139 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Electron

• Ensure JS stacks are captured when window is unresponsive vscode#240178 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Electron: Page content resizes with noticable delay electron#36280 Robo (@deepak1556)
• 🏃 Reenable PlzDedicatedWorker vscode#240180 Robo (@deepak1556)

Documentation

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

Deferred

• 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 Connor Peet (@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 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• 💪 Explore computing the indentation level using tree-sitter's AST vscode#208985 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)