Cody for VS Code 0.16.0

✨ See the What’s new in v0.16 blog post for what’s new in this release ✨

What's New in This Release

Completions and Autocomplete

• Fixed duplicate InlineCompletionItemProvider bug (#1579 by @umpox)
• Removed unused enableExtendedTriggers flag (#1647 by @philipp-spiess)
• Added initial prompting for Mistral 7b (#1671 by @philipp-spiess)
• Added feature flag for Sourcegraph specific Fireworks setup (#1670 by @philipp-spiess)
• Migrated retrieval strategies to new API (#1682 by @philipp-spiess)
• Implemented top-k retrieval mixing and made section history a retriever (#1705 by @philipp-spiess)
• Implemented a variant of RRF for retrieval mixing (#1710 by @philipp-spiess)
• Prepared mixed retrieval examples (#1752 by @philipp-spiess)

Editing

• Fixed recursive diff expansion bug (#1621 by @umpox)
• Made code action fixes faster (#1639 by @umpox)
• Improved quality by adding related fix context when available (#1723 by @umpox)
• Fixed flickering code lens for autoSave users (#1767 by @umpox)

Interfaces

• Added Cody search panel (#1546 by @beyang)
• Cleaned up login page styles (#1708 by @toolmantim)

Chat & Commands

✨ Set cody.experimental.chatPanel to enable the new experimental Chat UI!

• Updated chat panel icon (#1727 by @iswarmondal)
• Added a dropdown menu for selecting a different LLM model for chat (#1676 by @abeatrix)
• Added contextual file passing in chat via @ (#1631 by @abeatrix)
• Updated context file display widget (#1706 by @abeatrix)
• Add a new option that allows users to toggle on or off the addition of codebase context for each question (#1738 by @abeatrix)
• Commands and Custom Commands now support user input that follows the command name as additional instruction (#1731 by @abeatrix)

Other Fixes

• Fixed GitHub SSH URL parsing (#1574 by @deepak2431)
• Updated FixUp retry instruction text (#1615 by @deepak2431)
• Fixed stop generating error (#1668 by @umpox)
• Fixed chat history view (#1703 by @deepak2431)
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts with Ctrl key (#1690 by @abeatrix)
• Removed blank task list entries (#1697 by @kalanchan)

Infrastructure

• Updated dependencies (#503 by @renovate)
• Converted issue templates to forms (#1628 by @kalanchan)
• Added PRD issue template (#1616 by @kalanchan)