Unable to open Release Notes - cannot read property replace of null

[normalser]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.8.0-insider (44901c2, 2016-11-08T07:55:03.135Z)
• OS Version: Darwin x64 16.1.0

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Got "New update available" top bar
2. Clicked Read Release Notes

workbench.main.js:92 Unable to open 'Release Notes: VSCode': Cannot read property 'replace' of null
Please report this to https://github.com/chjj/marked..: Error: Unable to open 'Release Notes: VSCode': Cannot read property 'replace' of null
Please report this to https://github.com/chjj/marked..
    at t.doHandleSetInputError (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:15892)
    at file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:15498
    at then (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:32:17435)
    at t.doSetInput (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:15246)
    at file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:13133
    at then (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:32:18059)
    at t.doOpenEditor (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:13105)
    at t.openEditor (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:118:12384)
    at e.doOpenEditor (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:105:13762)
    at e.openEditor (file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.main.js:105:13192)

[joaomoreno]

This was fixed by my latest merge from the update branch.

Great catch, no one actually found this for quite some time.

[ad05bzag]

I got the same error today:

VS info:
Version 1.7.2
Commit 7ba55c5
Date 2016-11-21T22:14:18.217Z
Shell 1.3.8
Renderer 52.0.2743.82
Node 6.5.0

OS:
4.4.0-51-generic #72~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 24 19:22:30 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

steps to reproduce:

1. Got "New update available" top bar
2. Clicked Read Release Notes

[gregzuro]

Got this today:

Version 1.10.0-insider
ad605ea
2017-02-06T07:02:27.982Z

on OSX 10.12.3

Just clicked "Read Release Notes"

Have been getting this error with each new release.

[joaomoreno]

@gregzuro Update to the latest. 👍

[bbonczek]

Got this today on Windows 8.1. My spec: