Dev Meetings

Purpose

Developers and everyone interested meet every Tuesday from 4:00 to 4:30 PM CET, to discuss anything related to the development of Theia. If you want to bring up a specific topic at the next meeting, please add it to the agenda below.

Meeting details

https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/87062337291?pwd=S0JzVEdOS0NkNFJ0VU1rbzZURUtKQT09

2026-02-10

• [Nina]
  • Release updates 1.68.x: Theia IDE 1.68.x Preview Testing ongoing, promotion to stable expected tomorrow, Feb 11th
  • Windows Defender issue: resolved for the new version for now, Microsoft submission for detected file still pending (although current state says no malware detected) - relevant for older versions

2026-02-03

• [Nina]
  • Release updates 1.68.x: Theia IDE 1.68.x Preview Testing started
  • Update on the Windows issues from last week:
    • We decided to try to go back to the asar packaging for the Theia IDE product. (Details see https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide/pull/649 and https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-ide/pull/651). This was already done for the Preview 1.68.x - any feedback on that would be very welcome!

2026-01-27

• [Mark] Do we want to have an AI tool policy? Does the Eclipse Foundation care about this? (reference)
• [Nina]
  • Eclipse Theia v1.68.0 release scheduled for Thursday, 2026-01-29
    • Endgame Plan for 1.68.x
  • Theia IDE Fails to start on Windows: we are currently working on addressing this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/defender-endpoint-false-positives-negatives#false-positives-and-how-to-address-them

2026-01-13

• [Nina] - update built-in extensions
  • Temporarily as GH release: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/vscode-builtin-extensions/releases/tag/1.104.0
  • Ongoing PR: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/vscode-builtin-extensions/releases/tag/1.104.0

2026-01-06

• No meeting