Visual Studio Code September 2020 (version 1.50) (part 2)

VS Code September 2020 (v 1.50) (part 2)

Workbench

Pinned tabs improvements

Pinned tabs were introduced in our May 2020 release. Since then, we've received valuable feedback on how to improve this experience further, and for this milestone there are a couple of changes worth mentioning.

A new setting workbench.editor.pinnedTabSizing allows you to configure how large a pinned tab should appear:

normal: a pinned tab inherits the look of other tabs (new default)
shrink: a pinned tab shrinks to a fixed size showing parts of the editor label
compact: a pinned tab will only show as icon or first letter of the editor label

If you liked how pinned tabs looked prior to this release, make sure to configure "workbench.editor.pinnedTabSizing": "compact".

Pinned tabs also show a new "pinned" icon to allow you to unpin with one click. This icon will also appear in the "Open Editors" view.

Theme: GitHub Light

Some other improvements include:

Editors can now be pinned even when tabs are disabled.
Cmd+W (Ctrl+W) no longer closes a pinned editor, but selects the next non-pinned editor.
A new command workbench.action.closeActivePinnedEditor can be assigned to close a pinned editor.
A new tab.lastPinnedBorder color can be assigned to draw a border to the right of the last pinned tab.

Renamed some editor-related context keys

A few new editor context keys have been introduced, deprecating some of the existing ones. If you are using these in your keybinding settings, please update them:

groupActiveEditorDirty was renamed to activeEditorIsDirty
editorPinned was renamed to activeEditorIsNotPreview
editorSticky was renamed to activeEditorIsPinned

Added new resource (explorer-related) context keys

Two new context keys have been added for resources.

resourceDirname for the folder path of the resource, equivalent to dirname(uri.fsPath)
resourcePath for the full path of the resource, equivalent to uri.fsPath

Extensions: Simplified recommendation notifications

In this release, we improved the experience of recommending extensions using notifications by making them smarter and less noisy to users.

Recommendations notifications are not shown again after you tried them or went through them.
Only one recommendation notification is shown at any time in VS Code window. You can access already recommended notifications under the notification manager, the bell icon in the status bar.

Theme: GitHub Sharp Dark

Recommendation notifications supporting installations, like WSL, Docker etc., on your system, are made less noisy by showing only one such notification once per VS Code session - a session begins when you open VS Code and ends when you quit.

Panel layout improvements

New panel maximization setting

For those who prefer to work with the panel maximized, you no longer have to maximize the panel each time after toggling it open. For those that don't, the old panel behavior isn't going away.

Instead, a new setting, panel.opensMaximized, allows users to adjust to their own preference whether or not the panel always opens maximized when toggled with Toggle Panel. The options are always, never, and the default value preserve. The preserve option opens the panel maximized if it was maximized before being closed, and opens it non-maximized otherwise.

Additionally, if the panel is hidden, Toggle Maximized Panel will now always open the panel maximized.

Decreased minimum window width when panel is on the bottom

When the panel is on the bottom rather than on the side, the minimum window width is 400px instead of 600px. This way, developers who want a narrower editor-only or panel-only window can now move the panel to the bottom, optionally hide or maximize it, and then resize the window to the new narrower minimum width.

Linux ARM builds

VS Code is now available for both Linux ARMv7 and ARM64 architectures. This means you can now officially use VS Code on a Raspberry Pi, Chromebook, and other ARM-based devices! On these devices, you can also leverage the VS Code extensions for {Remote Development} to get access to more powerful development environments when you need them.

Visual Studio Code September 2020 (version 1.50) (part 1)

VS Code September 2020 (v 1.50) (part 1)

Welcome to the September 2020 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include: Accessible settings editor - Interact with the settings list like any other list in VS Code. Pinned tabs improvements - Resize pinned tabs, unpin with one click, and more. Linux ARM builds - VS Code is now available for both Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. Improved debugging experience - Improved hover and filtering in debug console. New JS debugger features - Toggle auto attach flows and see performance in real-time. Panel layout improvements - New panel maximization settings and bottom panel size. Webview Views support - Build extensions with webview views in the sidebar and panel. Updated "Create a Dev Container" tutorial - Get started with Development Containers. macOS: Keychain access moved to a different process Some…