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v2.21.0
Highlights
This release delivers improvements across authentication-aware prompts, Cursor integration, MCP reliability, and significant enhancements to Open in IDE and repository navigation.
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Chat & Prompts
- Prompt generation is now deferred until after sign-in, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience for unauthenticated users.
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MCP Integration
- Improved telemetry and diagnostics, making issues easier to detect and troubleshoot.
- Refined enablement checks to improve stability across environments.
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Git, Open in IDE & Source Locator
- Reduced the likelihood of timeouts during Git fetch operations.
- Improved messaging and behavior when opening repositories, depending on path availability.
- Repositories are now automatically fetched when the target reference is not found.
- Automatically open the appropriate folder or window when a repository is detected.
- Added a Git checkout menu to make branch selection clearer and more guided.
- Fixed issues where a specified branch was not checked out correctly.
- Simplified internal resolution logic to improve reliability when opening repositories.
Check out the extension README to get a detailed description of all the extension features and how you can use them in your workflow.