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

Endgame

• April 27th, 2020: Endgame begins
• May 1st, 2020: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #96277.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

UX

• 🏃 Notebook UX explorations Notebook UX Explorations #95154 @misolori
• Reconsider timeline icons and follow active editor UX Timeline pin state #94092 Make pinned timeline more explicit #94091 @misolori @eamodio

Accessibility

• Improve status bar accessibility, enable F6 style UI navigation Screen reader: Access the status bar using the keyboard. #94677 @isidorn
• Investigate accessibility for debugging: Screen readers are not announcing encountered break points Screen readers not announcing encountered break points #90842 @isidorn
• Investigate/assess JAWS support Investigate into JAWS support #95225 @isidorn
• Accessibility issues, see query @isidorn

Workbench

• Migrate to dynamic view containers View Layout Customizations Part 4 #94688 @sbatten @sandy081
• Stabilize account management UI and flows Stablize account management UI and flows #95163 Improve the settings sync flows with authentication #94766 @RMacfarlane @sandy081 @misolori
• 🏃 Use encrypted keychain for account management Use encrypted keychain for account management #95475 @RMacfarlane
• Add support for GH accounts for setting sync Support GitHub logins in settings sync #95160 @Tyriar @RMacfarlane @sandy081
• 🏃 Stabilize and document Custom Editor support Custom webview editor API #77131 @mjbvz @bpasero @jrieken
• 🏃 Provide in core implementation for notebooks Notebook Backlog #91987 @rebornix @jrieken @roblourens @weinand @connor4312
• 🏃 Adopt Open With... Share "Reopen with" command and Editor Associations with notebooks, settings and keybindings UIs #94408 @rebornix team
• Allow for better support of guiding users in the presence of deprecates settings Add extension setting field for indicating it may be influenced by a deprecated/renamed setting #91618 @roblourens

Theme Support

• 🏃 Supporting to customize the product icons Allow configuration of product icons #79130 @aeschli @misolori
• Adopt and enrich the semantic coloring support for bundled VS Code color themes [themes][semantic] default themes: new constant color #95346 @aeschli
• Work with popular themes to adopt the semantic coloring support @aeschli

Terminal

• Allow extensions to customize the environment of terminal processes Allow extensions to modify terminal environment variables #46696 @Tyriar
• Link provider based terminal links preview Terminal link provider-based links preview #95081 @Tyriar
• xterm.js: Prepare client/server separation for terminals Create a node.js target for xterm.js xtermjs/xterm.js#2749 @Tyriar

Languages

• 🏃 Support richer labels in completion items Consider showing completion item detail if available for all list items #39441 @octref @jrieken

LSP / LSIF

• Adopt the latest semantic coloring API in the LSP spec @dbaeumer

TypeScript/JavaScript

• Collaborate with TS team on documentation of how to work with large TS projects Collaborate with TypeScript team on documenting large project best practices #92820 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Improve presentation of TS hovers Improve TypeScript hovers #92787 @octref @mjbvz
• Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling Help TS team to assume ownership of semantic highlighting in TS tooling #92789 @aeschli @mjbvz @alexdima

Debug

• Allow debug extensions to provide configurations to display in Select and Start Debugging Implement VS Code support for dynamic debug configs #95835 @isidorn @weinand
• 🏃 Improve the single file debug experience Explore improving the single file debug experience #92269 @weinand @isidorn
• Adapt "auto attach" feature in js-debug Adapt "auto attach" feature to js-debug #88599 @connor4312 @weinand
• Adopt Select and Debug for js-debug Adopt select and start debugging provider API vscode-js-debug#433 @connor4312
• Provide basic support for capturing and viewing performance profiles in js-debug Profiling support in js-debug vscode-js-debug#388 @connor4312
• Support necessary UI adaptations for profiling UI changes for profiling state in debuggers #94812 @isidorn
• Investigate how to support StepInTarget in the UI Support StepInTarget #90793 @weinand @isidorn

SCM

• Provide commands for git status Add a git extensions api to check for unsynced changes #93779 @joaomoreno
• Git: Support that extensions can contribute repository sources to clone from. @joaomoreno
• Git: Provide automatic HTTPS authentication with GitHub Git: Provide automatic HTTPS authentication with GitHub #96241 @joaomoreno

API

• April extension authors call Extension Authors Call for April 2020 #96927 @eamodio @fiveisprime
• API finalization: query
• API proposals: query

Extension Contributions

• Improvements to the Remote extensions Remote: Iteration Plan for April 2020 vscode-remote-release#2752 team
• Improvements to the GitHub PR extension GHPR: Iteration Plan for April 2020 vscode-pull-request-github#1619 @alexr00 @RMacfarlane
• Improvements to the GH Issues Notebook extension https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-github-issue-notebooks/issues @jrieken
• Provide an extension contributing a flame chart presentation for performance profiles April visualization work vscode-js-debug#434 @connor4312

Engineering

• 🏃 Explore node-free renderer processes Implement a node.js-free, sandboxed, context isolated renderer  #92164 @bpasero @deepak1556
• Adopt working copy service in Search editor Search editor: registers as working copy even if saved #89268 @JacksonKearl
• Bring back automated issue classification Issue Classification Bot #95086 @JacksonKearl
• Ongoing work on proposing and implementing new bots (query) @JacksonKearl
• Contribute to electron's continuous Chromium update @deepak1556

Deferred Items

• Support for custom views with WebView contents Support WebViews in extension contributed custom views #83911 @mjbvz
• Support to preview refactoring changes for other refactorings than Rename Support preview a WorkspaceEdit #77728 @jrieken @mjbvz
• Global undo/redo: support to undo an operation for a file that is not in memory Support undoing textual edits in text buffers that were disposed #92272 @alexdima
• Introduce a memory limit to saved undo-redo elements. Introduce a memory limit to saved undo-redo elements. #93687 @alexdima
• Support to eventually activate an extension on startup @alexdima
• Settings sync: Explore support for extensions to participate in global state synchronization Support synchronising extension's global state #95209 @sandy081
• Adopt GH account for issues reporter Adopt GitHub Auth provider for issues reporter  #95165 @RMacfarlane
• Support url query params for custom editor resources Pass line number to custom editor when opening custom editors #94037 @mjbvz
• Investigate into an ARM product build for Windows Support ARM64 build for Windows #33620 @joaomoreno
• Explore how to make it easier for extension authors to react to deprecated API Provide linting support (eslint?) for deprecated extension APIs #94751 @eamodio