Release schedule

[ragnard]

How are monaco-editor releases planned and scheduled? Is there any public information on roadmap and release planning?

Asking because I'm affected by a number of bugs fixed in vscode, and I'm wondering when I can expect a new monaco-editor release where they are included.

Great project by the way, best embeddable JS text editor I've found and I've tried a few.

[ryanlin1986]

Curious for me too

[jacobyf]

The version v0.8.3 has been released for a long long time

[alexdima]

We are planning to do a release in the ~ next few days/weeks. I'm sorry for the delays, we've been all kept quite busy by vscode.

[ragnard]

@alexandrudima Thanks for the reply! To be clear, I'm not asking you make a release ASAP, or release more often in general, just whether it would be possible to provide some more information regarding the intended release schedule and roadmap of monaco. Great work with vscode!

[mattgodbolt]

@alexandrudima Thanks so much for the update. I know I was just starting to wonder if Monaco had been abandoned, so I'm super-glad things are still progressing. Thanks for all the hard work!

[aoto]

@alexandrudima Thanks a lot for yours great work. I want a roadmap too, i am plan to use Monaco-editor in my product soon. also i want know if the editor code will stripping out from VSCode.

[alexdima]

The editor can always be extracted from VS Code master and it is not that complicated once you understand what's going on. The editor always works on master.

But the trouble with that is that there might be some browser-specific regressions, as we test our daily changes in VS Code (running on Chromium). When we do an official monaco editor release, we go through open issues and try to address them, bring in PRs, and then do a lot of browser-specific testing. Sometimes we tweak some changes to try to keep the API stable or sometimes we need to think how to expose internal changes with new API and what is the migration path.

Depending on things, or the amount of breakage, this might take ~1 week. The trouble is to find a good time to fit in this ~1 week of work. We're trying to do this every ~3 months.

If there's some critical bug coming in, we're doing fix-releases (like e.g. 0.8.3).

If you would like to help, we're happy to take any PRs ❤️

[alexdima]

Let's track the 0.9.x release in #467