2022.12.0

What's Changed

Enhancements

• Improve how to notify the user they don't have Python installed when installing the Python extension for the first time by @karrtikr in #19379
• Add tip to reload window if user has attempted to install Python in the interpreter quickpick by @karrtikr in #19446
• Improve prompts in case no Python is installed or an invalid interpreter is selected by @karrtikr in #19397
• Do not attempt to launch Jedi language server in case when selected Python interpreter is invalid by @karrtikr in #19449
• Register a command to trigger environment diagnostic prompts by @karrtikr in #19462
• Trigger select environment prompt if an invalid interpreter is selected by @karrtikr in #19473
• Do not trigger test discovery if an invalid interpreter is selected for the workspace by @karrtikr in #19470
• Ensure prompts related to environment selection do not show up at startup by @karrtikr in #19483
• Do not trigger any commands which requires an interpreter if an invalid interpreter is selected by @karrtikr in #19481
• Ensure Install Python button on the walkthrough opens and fills in the suggested command by @karrtikr in #19487
• Implement automatic configuration for Django by @paulacamargo25 in #19350
• Ensure install pylance prompt does not show up when starting codespaces by @karrtikr in #19495
• Use status bar to indicate whether selected Python interpreter is invalid by @karrtikr in #19510
• Add dynamic FastAPI debug config by @paulacamargo25 in #19505
• Added setting to control when interpreter information is displayed in the status bar by @karrtikr in #19513
• Add flask debug config by @paulacamargo25 in #19536
• Source the conda activation script when using Gitbash by @karrtikr in #19552
• Look one more level deep in the fastAPI detection by @paulacamargo25 in #19578

Bug Fixes

• Ensure tooltip for environment in status bar updates when env is changed by @karrtikr in #19409
• Do not restart language server for Pylance on interpreter change by @karrtikr in #19425
• Unittest top-level-directory option by @dazfuller in #19398
• Ensure all components in extension are correctly re-activated when a workspace is trusted by @karrtikr in #19488
• More clear error message for invalid debug configuration by @scottshambaugh in #19436
• Ensure virtual environment created using python -m venv . is recognized by @karrtikr in #19543
• Fix prompt that shows up when debugging using an invalid Python by @karrtikr in #19561
• Display problematic environments towards the end of the interpreters list by @karrtikr in #19588

Code Health

• Add verbose logging as to what activation command is sent to terminal by @karrtikr in #19416

New Contributors

• @dazfuller made their first contribution in #19398
• @scottshambaugh made their first contribution in #19436

Full Changelog: 2022.10.1...2022.12.0

2022.10.1

2022.10.1 (14 July 2022)

Code Health

• Update app insights key by karthiknadig in (#19463).

Full Changelog: 2022.10.0...2022.10.1

2022.10.0

2022.10.0 (7 July 2022)

Enhancements

• Add breakpoint support for django-html & django-txt by Lakshmikanth2001 in (#19288).
• Fix unittest discovery issue with experimental component by ksy7588 in (#19324).
• Trigger refresh when using Select Interpreter command if no envs were found previously by karrtikr in (#19361).
• Update debugpy to 1.6.2.

Bug Fixes

• Fix variable name for flake8Path's description by usta in (#19313).
• Ensure we dispose objects on deactivate by karthiknadig in (#19341).
• Ensure we can change interpreters after trusting a workspace by karrtikr in (#19353).
• Fix for :::: in node id for pytest by karthiknadig in (#19356).
• Ensure we register for interpreter change when moving from untrusted to trusted. by karthiknadig in (#19351).

Code Health

• Update CI for using GitHub Actions for release notes by brettcannon in (#19273).
• Add missing translations by paulacamargo25 in (#19305).
• Delete the news directory by brettcannon in (#19308).
• Fix interpreter discovery related telemetry by karrtikr in (#19319).
• Simplify and merge async dispose and dispose by karthiknadig in (#19348).
• Updating required packages by karthiknadig in (#19375).
• Update the issue notebook by brettcannon in (#19388).
• Remove notebookeditor proposed API by karthiknadig in (#19392).

Full Changelog: 2022.8.1...2022.10.0

2022.8.1

2022.8.1 (28 June 2022)

Code Health

1. Update vscode extension-telemetry package.
   (#19375)

2022.8.0

2022.8.0 (9 June 2022)

Enhancements

1. Make cursor focus switch automatically to the terminal after launching a python process with configuration option. (Thanks djplt)
   (#14851)
2. Enable localization using vscode-nls.
   (#18286)
3. Add support for referencing multiroot-workspace folders in settings using ${workspaceFolder:<folder_name>}.
   (#18650)
4. Ensure conda envs lacking an interpreter which do not use a valid python binary are also discovered and is selectable, so that conda env list matches with what the extension reports.
   (#18934)
5. Improve information collected by the Python: Report Issue command.
   (#19067)
6. Only trigger auto environment discovery if a user attempts to choose a different interpreter, or when a particular scope (a workspace folder or globally) is opened for the first time.
   (#19102)
7. Added a proposed API to report progress of environment discovery in two phases.
   (#19103)
8. Update to latest LS client (v8.0.0) and server (v8.0.0).
   (#19114)
9. Update to latest LS client (v8.0.1) and server (v8.0.1) that contain the race condition fix around LangClient.stop.
   (#19139)

Fixes

1. Do not use --user flag when installing in a virtual environment.
   (#14327)
2. Fix error No such file or directory on conda activate, and simplify the environment activation code.
   (#18989)
3. Add proposed async execution API under environments.
   (#19079)

Code Health

1. Capture whether environment discovery was triggered using Quickpick UI.
   (#19077)

2022.6.3

2022.6.3 (31May 2022)

Fixes

1. Update to latest LS client (v8.0.2) and server (v8.0.2) that contain fixes for language server start/stop scenarios.
   (#19215)

2022.6.2

2022.6.2 (12 May 2022)

Fixes

1. Update to latest LS client (v8.0.1) and server (v8.0.1) that contain the race condition fix around LanguageClient.stop.
   (#19139)

2022.6.1

2022.6.1 (10 May 2022)

Enhancements

1. Update to latest LS client (v8.0.0) and server (v8.0.0).
   (#19114)
2. Improve information collected by the Python: Report Issue command.
   (#19067)

2022.6.0

2022.6.0 (5 May 2022)

Enhancements

1. Rewrite support for unittest test discovery.
   (#17242)
2. Do not require a reload when swapping between language servers.
   (#18509)

Fixes

1. Do not show inherit env prompt for conda envs when running "remotely".
   (#18510)
2. Fixes invalid regular expression logging error occurs when file paths contain special characters.
   (Thanks sunyinqi0508)
   (#18829)
3. Do not prompt to select new virtual envrionment if it has already been selected.
   (#18915)
4. Disable isort when using isort extension.
   (#18945)
5. Remove process check from browser specific entry point for the extension.
   (#18974)
6. Use built-in test refresh button.
   (#19012)
7. Update vscode-telemetry-extractor to @vscode/[email protected].
   (Thanks Quan Zhuo)
   (#19036)
8. Ensure 64-bit interpreters are preferred over 32-bit when auto-selecting.
   (#19042)

Code Health

1. Update Jedi minimum to python 3.7.
   (#18324)
2. Stop using --live-stream when using conda run (see conda/conda#11209 for details).
   (#18511)
3. Remove prompt to recommend users in old insiders program to switch to pre-release.
   (#18809)
4. Update requirements to remove python 2.7 version restrictions.
   (#19060)

2022.4.1

2022.4.1 (7 April 2022)

Fixes

1. Ensure conda info command isn't run multiple times during startup when large number of conda interpreters are present.
   (#18200)
2. If a conda environment is not returned via the conda env list command, consider it as unknown env type.
   (#18530)
3. Wrap file paths containing an ampersand in double quotation marks for running commands in a shell.
   (#18722)
4. Fixes regression with support for python binaries not following the standard names.
   (#18835)
5. Fix launch of Python Debugger when using conda environments.
   (#18847)