Patch Release v0.7.4 📎

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Patch Release v0.7.4

This patch adds URL-encoded password detection, rich markdown tooltips across all tree item levels, a new "Copy Reference" context menu, and several dependency updates.

What's Changed in v0.7.4

💠 URL-Encoded Password Detection (#444, #594)

Connecting with a URL-encoded password no longer results in a cryptic authentication failure. When a connection attempt fails and the password contains URL-encoded characters (%XX sequences), the extension now offers a "Retry with Decoded Password" option in the error dialog. If the retry succeeds, the decoded password can be saved — no manual editing required.

📣 Thanks to @vaibh123540 for the original contribution in #454!

💠 Rich Markdown Tooltips (#579, #588)

Hovering over tree items in the Connections view now reveals rich markdown tooltips at cluster, database, and collection levels — giving you useful details at a glance without expanding or connecting.

• Cluster tooltips show the display name, hostname, authentication method, and TLS status.
• Database tooltips display the database name and estimated storage size.
• Collection tooltips show estimated document count and storage size.

All data comes from information already fetched during tree expansion, so no extra API calls are needed.

💠 Copy Reference Context Menu (#545, #587)

A new "Copy Reference…" right-click option is available on database, collection, and index nodes. Instead of copying a single fixed format, a QuickPick lets you choose the most useful representation:

• Database: Name, Shell Command (use dbName), Qualified Name (host/dbName)
• Collection: Name, Namespace (db.coll), Shell Reference (db.coll), Shell Command (db.getCollection("coll"))
• Index: Name, Key Definition ({ field: 1 }), Shell Command (db.coll.getIndexes().find(...))

Names containing special characters (spaces, parentheses, etc.) automatically use the safe db.getCollection("...") form, and dot-notation options are hidden when they would produce broken syntax.

📣 Thanks to @bgaeddert for the original contribution in #545!

💠 Improved CONTRIBUTING.md (#565)

The contributing guide now includes a PR submission checklist (localization, formatting, linting), corrected Node/npm version requirements, and multi-platform setup stubs — making it easier for new contributors to get started.

💠 Dependency Updates (#552, #556, #558, #586)

Updated handlebars (4.7.8 → 4.7.9), lodash (4.17.23 → 4.18.1), lodash and @microsoft/api-extractor in /api, and follow-redirects (1.15.11 → 1.16.0) to their latest versions.

Changelog

See the full changelog entry for this release:
➡️ CHANGELOG.md#074