Visual Studio Code Extension (Preview) Changelog

All notable changes to the Visual Studio Code Extension (Preview)

v0.64.0 (2025-12-10)

• Show progress indicator while preparing container creation (e.g. when waiting for user inputs)

v0.63.1 (2025-12-10)

• Fix issue where the container creation for an Azure DevOps branch didn't work

v0.63.0 (2025-12-08)

• Update Alpaca API client and adapt changes
• Use dedicated container create endpoints
• Ask for BcArtifact properties (version, country, etc.) when creating a demo or standalone container
• Add search functionality for Azure DevOps and GitHub view (hit Ctrl+F or Cmd+F when focused on the tree view)

v0.62.1 (2025-12-01)

• Don't ask for BcArtifact selection when creating standalone containers

v0.62.0 (2025-11-27)

• Implement demo containers option for standalone containers
• Implement BcArtifact selection while creating containers for an Azure DevOps repository
• Update Alpaca API client

v0.61.2 (2025-11-13)

• Improve API client caching to depend on token expiration

v0.61.1 (2025-11-11)

• Add caching for user profile
• Update Alpaca API client

v0.61.0 (2025-11-10)

• Remove token parsing and determine the user type via an API call
• Hide COSMO specific actions for non-COSMO users (e.g. entity assignment)
• Update Alpaca API client
• Update dependency packages

v0.60.0 (2025-10-30)

• Update Alpaca API client and translations
• Add Azure DevOps PAT helper and related settings: cosmo-alpaca.azureDevops.autoManagePATs, cosmo-alpaca.azureDevops.autoManagePATLifetime
• Add action to create containers for an Azure DevOps repository (cosmo.json)
• Refactor container creation
• Add tree item to show Pull-Requests of an Azure DevOps repository
• Set strict order of labels below Repositories and Projects

v0.59.0 (2025-10-29)

• Update dependency packages
• Add action to update CI/CD of an Azure DevOps project

v0.58.1 (2025-10-02)

• Fix issue where containers created by a pipeline or workflow would show up as containers of the current user

v0.58.0 (2025-10-01)

• Use Alpaca Api to retrieve and prune container configurations

v0.57.1 (2025-09-26)

• Fix issue where an expired Microsoft authentication token could be used

v0.57.0 (2025-09-23)

• Update dependency packages
• Internal improvements

v0.56.0 (2025-09-12)

• Improve stability of container health checks
• Internal improvements
• Display image building errors next to the container status
• Add dedicated support URLs for COSMO users

v0.55.0 (2025-09-09)

• Add action to import the backlog of another Azure DevOps project
• Add action to onboard existing Azure DevOps projects for usage with COSMO Alpaca
• Update dependency packages

v0.54.2 (2025-09-05)

• Remove dependency on GitHub Actions extension to improve stability when switching contexts

v0.54.1 (2025-09-02)

• Fix an issue where a wrong authentication was reused from cache when switching views between GitHub and Azure DevOps

v0.54.0 (2025-08-29)

• Migrate container execution and logging operations from Container API to Alpaca API
• Add new container actions: base app preparation, NAV/BC server instance restart and event log download
• Implement container selection functionality for operations that don't have a specific container context
• Internal improvements
• Update Alpaca API client
• Update README (add Azure DevOps features)

v0.53.0 (2025-08-28)

• Add function to create projects

v0.52.1 (2025-08-27)

• Fix issue when creating launch.json
• Fix SSH key permission error on Windows when opening terminal or file share (related change)
• Cache expiration is now configurable: cosmo-alpaca.cacheExpirationHours (related change)
• Update dependency packages

v0.52.0 (2025-08-13)

• Move to new Alpaca-API endpoints & models

v0.51.0 (2025-08-07)

• Update Alpaca API client
• Add function to customize Azure DevOps processes

v0.50.1 (2025-07-24)

• Update Alpaca API client
• Update dependency packages

v0.50.0 (2025-07-10)

• Fetch Azure DevOps repositories and branches from new Alpaca API endpoints
• Add action to clone an Azure DevOps repository
• Show Containers for Azure DevOps repositories and branches
• Update Alpaca API client
• Update dependency packages

v0.49.0 (2025-07-09)

• Internal improvements
• Update API clients
• Update dependency packages

v0.48.0 (2025-07-02)

• Support specific backend per Azure DevOps project
• Update API clients
• Internal improvements

v0.47.0 (2025-06-30)

• Fetch Azure DevOps organizations and projects (and their assigned entities) from new Alpaca API endpoints
• Streamline entity handling between Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Streamline handling for Azure DevOps organizations/projects and GitHub owners/repositories
• Update API clients
• Update dependency packages

v0.46.1 (2025-06-20)

• Fix issue where permissions weren't correctly set for SSH private key file on some Windows systems
• Update dependency packages

v0.46.0 (2025-06-13)

• Add action to customize the process of Azure DevOps projects (based on the available customizations for the assigned COSMO entity)
• Update dependency packages

v0.45.0 - v0.45.1 (2025-06-03)

• Implement VS Code Extension Telemetry

v0.44.0 (2025-05-30)

• Streamline COSMO entity assignment for both Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Add commandPalette action to switch between view modes (functional/technical)
• Add support for custom backendUrl on GitHub repository level
• Update API clients
• Update dependency packages

v0.43.1 (2025-05-15)

• Update the container status after changing the owner

v0.43.0 (2025-05-14)

• Add action to change the owner(s) of a container (or share a container)

v0.42.0 (2025-05-13)

• Add action to assign a COSMO Entity to a GitHub repository
• Update dependency packages

v0.41.0 (2025-04-30)

• Allow to specify project name on AL-Go app creation (allows multi-project repos)
• Update dependency packages

v0.40.2 (2025-04-03)

• Add multi-backend support for containers tree view
• Update dependency packages

v0.40.1 (2025-03-28)

• Fix retrieving containers for a specific project/branch
• Fix typo in title of containers tree view
• Update dependency packages

v0.40.0 (2025-03-14)

• Add handling of GitHub owner specific Alpaca backends
• Update API clients
• Several internal improvements

v0.39.0 (2025-03-13)

• Adapt specification of release types due to changes in AL-Go

0.38.0 (2025-03-11)

• Several internal improvements
• Update API clients
• Update dependency packages

0.37.0 (2025-02-14)

• Update API clients
• Move to GitHub specifc endpoints of Alpaca API
• Update dependency packages

0.36.0 (2025-02-06)

• Update API clients
• Update dependency packages

0.35.1 (2025-01-27)

• Fix prefixes of support issues (bugs & feature requests)

0.35.0 (2025-01-22)

• Add actions to open status page links externally

0.34.0 (2025-01-22)

• Add Alpaca Home page to show the changelog and status information
• Remove unnecessary status bar items for username and Azure tenant
• Update dependency packages

0.33.0 (2025-01-10)

• Improve webview implementation
• After an update of the extension, the changelog will now be shown automatically
• Update translations
• Update dependency packages

0.32.0 (2024-12-09)

• Add optional setting to always show the container id (cosmo-alpaca.visibility.alwaysShowContainerId)
• Improve container status/health checks (esp. after restarts)
• Improve documentation of auto start/stop actions and settings
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.31.0 (2024-11-19)

• Fix visibility issue when switching to only show favorites
• Add additional container labels in the container tree view
• Add action to only show own branches (incl. default branches)
• Add multi-language support with translations for English and German
• Add action to open branch in browser
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.30.0 (2024-10-31)

• Support Alpaca-PTE template for AL:Go

0.29.0 (2024-10-30)

• Don't show all containers for projects beneath a branch

0.28.0 (2024-10-29)

• Support Azure DevOps in vscode.dev

0.27.0 (2024-10-18)

• New Azure Devops features:
  • show and assign COSMO entities
  • list branches
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients
• Show all containers from all branches underneath the project

0.26.0 (2024-10-01)

• Fix missing container actions for technical users

0.25.1 (2024-09-26)

• Improve role selection for existing users

0.25.0 (2024-09-26)

• Sort treeview items alphabetically by name
• Update API clients
• Add simplified fullscreen views for functional roles with reduced actions, add walkthrough

0.24.1 (2024-09-25)

• Bundle VS Code Elements for webview

0.24.0 (2024-09-25)

• Preview: Add framework for future webview support in Alpaca

0.23.0 (2024-09-19)

• Add support to prune obsolete configurations of the vscode launch.json
• Split launch.json and terminal functions from container.ts
• Implement container tree view
• Add new action to create standalone containers
• Improve container creation
• Support GitHub containers based on a branch
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.22.0 (2024-09-03)

• Fix problem where part of a setting could be read as "AI" instead of "AL"
• Add support to clear existing symbols before downloading symbols from a container
• Add welcome page with view selection when opening the extension for the first time
• Refactoring and several internal improvements
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.21.0 (2024-08-13)

• Update API clients

0.20.0 (2024-07-31)

• Update API clients

0.19.0 (2024-07-29)

• Fix issue where "Create release" action wasn't displayed
• Hide container actions based on container state

0.18.0 (2024-07-26)

• Moved Launch.json creation/extension to k8s-api
• Add support to cache the container credentials and download symbols directly after successfully creating the launch.json
• Improved container status handling & health checks
• New actions:
  • rename container
  • set container auto start & stop mode
  • (un-)favorite accounts and repositories (stored in settings)
  • hide accounts and repositories (stored in settings)
• Refactoring and several internal improvements
• Fix an issue where canceling an input dialog was not handled correctly and didn't cancel the action #3
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.17.0 (2024-06-07)

• Updated README with more information

0.16.0 (2024-06-06)

• Improve caching: remember collapse state of tree items
• Refactoring and several internal improvements

0.15.0 (2024-06-04)

• List/create deployments and show deployment status
• List/create pull requests and show checks

0.14.0 (2024-05-17)

• More details for apps including app dependencies
• List branches
• Show/open releases & download release assets
• Environment management (list, create, delete)
• Action to deploy releases to one or multiple environments
• Create releases from branches

0.13.0 (2024-05-08)

• Disable caching for containers, refactor deletion

0.12.0 (2024-05-08)

• Show AL-Go apps underneath projects
• New actions:
  • Import apps into AL-Go repository
  • Init existing AL-Go repo for usage with COSMO Alpaca
  • Update AL-Go system files
  • Create release
  • Increment version number

0.11.0 (2024-05-03)

• Update API clients

0.10.0 (2024-05-03)

• Add code generation to automate & validate user inputs, responses & error messages
• Update API clients
• Improve caching
• Add action to create AL-Go app repositories
• Add AL-Go app creation workflow

0.9.0 (2024-03-22)

• Make extension more compatible with codespaces
• Update API clients
• UI/UX improvements - tree view, icons, favorites- Execute DLL collection asynchronously

0.8.3 (2024-01-18)

• Fix packaging issue
• Fix asynchronous view-based functions
• Add hidden action to refresh auth/login

0.8.0 (2024-01-18)

• Make extension work on the web version of VS Code
• Rework caching
• Improve waiting for IP address and SSH connection
• Remove sasToken
• Update dependency packages
• Update API clients

0.7.1 (2023-11-10)

• Add BCST restart after base app preparation

0.7.0 (2023-11-09)

• Base app preparation moves all extensions into dev scope

0.6.0 (2023-10-20)

• Initial release