This plan captures our work in March. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early April.

Endgame

• March 25, 2024: Endgame begins
• March 28, 2024: 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

• Add context actions to Comments view vscode#5741 @alexr00
• Inform users of running cells and inline suggestions in notebooks vscode#176288 @amunger
• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

Workbench

• Improve quick pick experiences, see query @TylerLeonhardt
• Adopt the multi-file diff editor for rendering refactor previews vscode#204370 @aiday-mar @hediet @jrieken
• Support moving webviews to aux window vscode#195715 @bpasero @rebornix @mjbvz
• Move activity bar to bottom vscode#118692 @benibenj
• Allow custom editor labels vscode#41909 @benibenj @bpasero
• Synchronized Scrolling in Split Editor vscode#33110 @benibenj
• Allow to easily stage code from the diff editor vscode#206808 @hediet

Code Editor

• Explore using the new EditContext API vscode#204371 @hediet
• 🏃 Explore hover enriching vscode#195394 @aiday-mar @hediet
• Merge rendering logic of PR "Support dynamic line heights using decorations #194609" @hediet
• Explore tree-sitter parser ecosystem @alexr00 vscode#207416
• Missing quick fixes immediately after introducing an error vscode#117812 @justschen
• 🏃 Multi-file diff editor has no TabInput vscode#206411 @lramos15 @hediet
• Release the Monaco Editor CHANGELOG @hediet

Search

• Polish the quick search preview editor experience vscode#204853 @andreamah

Authentication

• Prevent logging in with multiple GitHub accounts while its not supported vscode#203850 @TylerLeonhardt

Notebook Editor

• 🏃 Polish variables view vscode#203480 @amunger
• Explore run in section in sticky scroll / outline / Go to Symbols vscode#199992 @Yoyokrazy
• Polish outline view entries for notebook vscode#206308 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Explore notebook level formatting support vscode#207334 @Yoyokrazy @rebornix
• Notebook edit history polish (timeline, undo/redo of notebook operations) vscode#205634 @DonJayamanne
• Support browser keybindings (arrow, pageup/down, shift+pageup/down, ctrl+a) vscode#206747 @DonJayamanne
• Remove custom entry from Jupyter notebook metadata (coordinate with .NET and Julia) vscode#205637 @DonJayamanne

Jupyter Notebooks

• Update Codespace with latest Kernel Provider api vscode-jupyter#15125 @DonJayamanne
• Support module import/usage analysis in Run Dependent Cells vscode-jupyter#14674 @rebornix w/ Pylance team

WebAssembly Support

• 🏃 Document how to use VS Code's component model tooling to use WASM services inside a VS Code extensions vscode-wasm#157 @dbaeumer

Issue Reporter

• 🏃 Explore supporting the issue reporter in the web @justschen

Languages

Python

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

TypeScript

• ✋ Automatic type acquisition on the web vscode#172887 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Support bringing along imports with copy paste typescript#50187 @mjbvz
• Adopt CodeAction ranges for refactorings @mjbvz
• Ship TypeScript 5.4 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Use vscode watches for tsserver vscode#193848 @bpasero
• Explore adoption of new issue reporter command contribution in TS extension @justschen

Terminal

• Release xterm.js 5.4 xterm.js@5.4.0 @Tyriar
• Explore automatic glyph scaling opt-out vscode#206342 @Tyriar
• 🏃 Explore exposing shell integration command knowledge to extensions vscode#145234 @Tyriar

Source Control

• Quick diff decorators for incoming changes vscode#204982 @lszomoru

Testing

• 🏃 Finalize test coverage API vscode#123713 @connor4312

Debug

• 🏃 Expose current thread/stack frame id vscode#63943 @connor4312

Debug Adapter Protocol

• Support additional data fields for breakpoint debug-adapter-protocol#455 @connor4312

API

• Explore improvements to the proposed IssueReporter API vscode#196863 @justschen
• API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
• API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz

Extensions

• 🏃 Investigate high extension install error rate vscode#190233 @sandy081
• Update extensions whenever VS Code is about to update vscode#125417 @sandy081
• Support extensions from the workspace vscode#206783 @sandy081

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions, see plan @roblourens @chrmarti @connor4312 @joyceerhl
• 🏃 Allow resolving merge conflicts without checking out PRs vscode-pull-request-github#5802 @alexr00
• Improve outdated comments experience vscode-pull-request-github#5760 @alexr00
• Improve support for ESLint rules that have inter-file dependencies vscode-eslint#1774 @dbaeumer
• 🏃 Adapt the new ESLint flat config support vscode-eslint#1644 @dbaeumer

Engineering

Electron

• 🏃 V8: Support usage of external array buffers for embedders in sandbox mode chromium#14585 @deepak1556

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Deferred

• Investigate text-to-speech in panel/inline chat interfaces vscode#196261 @bpasero
• Improve auto indentation in the editor vscode#206891 @aiday-mar @hediet
• Explore better handling of merge conflicts for .ipynb files vscode#160941 @DonJayamanne
• Continue debug visualization exploration vscode#197287 @connor4312
• 💪 Explore Lay-of-the-Land command vscode#201898 @meganrogge
• 🏃 Implemented WASI preview 2 pollables and streams on top of the shared-memory model wasm-wasi#155 @dbaeumer
• 💪 Remove "sortByLabel" default behavior and stale proposed API vscode#73904 @TylerLeonhardt
• 🏃 Allow "Files Changed" in new PR to diff against file on disk vscode-pull-request-github#5163 @alexr00