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)