This plan captures our work on the Remote development extensions in August. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Remote - Core

• Generalize SSH explorer to allow contributions from Containers and WSL Generalize SSH explorer to also be usable for Containers and WSL #926 @rebornix
• Polish reconnect dialog / UX When disconnected waiting to reconnect, user should be able to "retry now" #1246 @sbatten
• Ensure VS Code server doesn't listen on 0.0.0.0 It's unsafe to expose ports to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 in remote server #1016 @roblourens @alexandrudima
• Improve connection/reconnection reliability Investigate reconnection reliability #955 @alexandrudima
• Improve discoverability of the 'install local extensions' command Improve discoverability of 'Install Local Extension...' #1066 @sandy081
• Create ARM64 server builds @joaomoreno
• Polish extension readme files @chrisdias @sana-ajani @bowdenk7 @gregvanl @Chuxel

Remote - SSH

• Enable dynamic forwarding out of the box Use dynamic forwarding by default #1157 @roblourens
• Support installing the VS Code server through the VS Code client Use VS Code Remote Development w/o marketplace, update connectivity #15 @roblourens
• Explore how to prevent passphrase and password prompts to appear behind the reconnect dialog SSH reconnect requires password in background #1072 @roblourens @sbatten
• Automatically enable SSH agent forwarding if needed Allow ssh agent forwarding by default, (when user has enabled in ssh config) #1158 @roblourens
• Support connection sharing between windows that connect to the same host ControlMaster is not supported on Windows - find a workaround or document it #96 @roblourens
• Adopt ARM64 support Please add support for Linux on ARM64 #69 @roblourens
• 🏃 SSH Blog post series @sana-ajani @gregvanl

Remote - Containers

• Add command 'Open Workspace in Container', 'Reopen Workspace in Container' Open Workspace in Container... improve support for multi root workspaces #387 @chrmarti @aeschli
• More guidance in devcontainer.json when reusing an existing Docker Compose / Dockerfile Provide more devcontainer.json guidance when reusing an existing Docker Compose / Dockerfile #1076 @chrmarti
• Investigate: Reducing reliance on runArgs for common scenarios: mount points, environment variables Investigate: Reducing reliance on runArgs for common scenarios: mount points, environment variables #1201 @chrmarti
• Contribute to Remote Explorer Use remote explorer contribution point to add containers to remote explorer #1141 @alexr00
• 🏃 Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated Prompt to rebuild on reload if devcontainer.json or associated Dockerfile/compose files have been updated #758 @chrmarti
• Support ${localWorkspaceFolder} in devcontainer.json Support ${workspaceFolder} or ${hostWorkspaceFolder} #442 @chrmarti
• Support all docker related settings provided by the Docker extension Adopt new Docker settings from Docker extension #859
• 🏃 Container Blog post series @bowdenk7 @gregvanl

Remote - WSL

• WSL Blog post series Part III @gregvanl
• 🏃 WSL2 Blog post @fiveisprime @gregvanl

Deferred Items

• 🔴 💪 Support to debug the local and remote Extension Host at the same time @weinand