CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Unreleased

Fixed

• Fixed SSH config writes failing on Windows when antivirus, cloud sync software, or another process briefly locks the file.

Added

• Automatically set reconnectionGraceTime, serverShutdownTimeout, and maxReconnectionAttempts on first connection to prevent disconnects during overnight workspace sleep.
• New Coder: Apply Recommended SSH Settings command to overwrite all recommended SSH settings at once.
• Proxy log directory now defaults to the extension's global storage when coder.proxyLogDirectory is not set, so SSH connection logs are always captured without manual configuration. Also respects the CODER_SSH_LOG_DIR environment variable as a fallback.
• SSH options from coder config-ssh --ssh-option are now applied to VS Code connections, with priority order: VS Code setting > coder config-ssh options > deployment config.

v1.14.0-pre 2026-03-06

Added

• Re-introduced OS keyring support for session tokens (reverted in v1.13.2), now delegating to the Coder CLI instead of native @napi-rs/keyring binaries. This keeps the credential format in sync with the CLI automatically.

Fixed

• --use-keyring and --global-config are now explicitly filtered from user-configured global CLI flags to prevent conflicts with the extension's auth mode.

v1.13.2 2026-03-05

Fixed

• Removed OS Keyring behavior changes

v1.13.1 2026-03-04

Added

• Session tokens are now stored in the OS keyring (Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows) instead of plaintext files, when using CLI >= 2.29.0. Falls back to file storage on Linux, older CLIs, or if the keyring write fails. Controlled via the coder.useKeyring setting.

Fixed

• Fixed CLI binary downloads failing when servers or proxies compress responses unexpectedly.
• Clarified CLI download progress notification wording.

v1.13.0 2026-03-03

Added

• Tasks panel: a new sidebar panel to create, view, and manage AI tasks directly from VS Code. Includes a task list with status indicators, a detail view with chat-style log streaming and real-time workspace build logs, and the ability to send messages or pause the agent without leaving the editor.
• New "Switch Deployment" command to change deployments without clearing credentials.
• New "Manage Credentials" command to view and remove stored credentials for individual deployments.

Changed

• Logout now clears stored credentials for the current deployment.
• The workspace update confirmation button now reads "Update and Restart" to clarify that updating will restart the workspace.

v1.12.2 2026-01-27

Added

• Support for VS Code's built-in proxy settings: http.noProxy (as fallback when coder.proxyBypass is not set), http.proxyAuthorization, and http.proxyStrictSSL.

Fixed

• Fixed proxy scheme handling where URLs with schemes got duplicated and URLs without schemes were not normalized.

Changed

• WebSocket connections are now more robust and reconnect less frequently, only when truly necessary, reducing unnecessary disconnections and improving stability.

v1.12.1 2026-01-23

Fixed

• Fixed GPG signature verification failing when public keys have been reformatted.
• Fixed race conditions when multiple VS Code windows access deployments simultaneously.

Changed

• Refined logging with clearer messages and more accurate severity levels for easier troubleshooting.

v1.12.0 2026-01-21

Added

• Automatic TLS client certificate refresh via new coder.tlsCertRefreshCommand setting. Detects certificate errors (expired, revoked, etc.) and automatically refreshes and retries.
• OAuth 2.1 authentication support (experimental): Enable via coder.experimental.oauth setting. When connecting to an OAuth-enabled Coder deployment, you can choose between OAuth (with automatic token refresh) or legacy session tokens. OAuth tokens refresh automatically in the background, eliminating manual re-authentication.
• Multi-deployment support: The extension now remembers credentials for multiple Coder deployments. When you log into a different deployment, existing credentials are preserved and automatically restored if you log back in. Credentials sync automatically across VS Code windows.
• WebSocket connections now automatically reconnect when proxy, TLS, or header settings change (coder.headerCommand, coder.insecure, coder.tlsCertFile, coder.tlsKeyFile, coder.tlsCaFile, coder.tlsAltHost, http.proxy, coder.proxyBypass).

Fixed

• Fixed SetEnv SSH config parsing and accumulation with user-defined values.
• Improved WebSocket error handling for more consistent behavior across connection failures.
• Commands now correctly appear/hide in the command palette based on login state and remote connection.
• Opening a workspace via URI (vscode://coder.coder-remote/open?...) now properly prompts for login when credentials are missing.
• Network info files are now automatically cleaned up, and the SSH process is re-detected after repeated failures to read network info.
• Proxy log files are now automatically cleaned up when the count exceeds 20 and the oldest files are more than 7 days old.

Changed

• Breaking: Minimum VS Code version is now 1.95.0.

v1.11.6 2025-12-15

Added

• Log file picker when viewing logs without an active workspace connection.

Fixed

• Fixed false "setting changed" notifications appearing when connecting to a remote workspace.

v1.11.5 2025-12-10

Added

• Support for paths that begin with a tilde (~).
• Support for coder ssh flag configurations through the coder.sshFlags setting.

Fixed

• Fixed race condition when multiple VS Code windows download the Coder CLI binary simultaneously. Other windows now wait and display real-time progress instead of attempting concurrent downloads, preventing corruption and failures.
• Remove duplicate "Cancel" buttons on the workspace update dialog.

Changed

• WebSocket connections now automatically reconnect on network failures, improving reliability when communicating with Coder deployments.
• Improved SSH process and log file discovery with better reconnect handling and support for VS Code forks (Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity).

v1.11.4 2025-11-20

Added

• Support for the google.antigravity-remote-openssh Remote SSH extension.

Changed

• Improved workspace connection progress messages and enhanced the workspace build terminal with better log streaming. The extension now also waits for blocking startup scripts to complete before connecting, providing clear progress indicators during the wait.

v1.11.3 2025-10-22

Fixed

• Fixed WebSocket connections not receiving headers from the configured header command (coder.headerCommand), which could cause authentication failures with remote workspaces.

v1.11.2 2025-10-07

Changed

• Updated Visual Studio Marketplace badge in README to use img.shields.io service instead of vsmarketplacebadges.

v1.11.1 2025-10-07

Fixed

• Logging in or out in one VS Code window now properly updates the authentication status in all other open windows.
• Fix an issue with JSON stringification errors occurring when logging circular objects.
• Fix resource cleanup issues that could leave lingering components after extension deactivation.

Added

• Support for CODER_BINARY_DESTINATION environment variable to set CLI download location (overridden by extension setting coder.binaryDestination if configured).
• Search filter button to Coder Workspaces tree views for easier workspace discovery.

v1.11.0 2025-09-24

Changed

• Always enable verbose (-v) flag when a log directory is configured (coder.proxyLogDirectory).
• Automatically start a workspace without prompting if it is explicitly opened but not running.

Added

• Add support for CLI global flag configurations through the coder.globalFlags setting.
• Add logging for all REST traffic. Verbosity is configurable via coder.httpClientLogLevel (none, basic, headers, body).
• Add lifecycle logs for WebSocket creation, errors, and closures.
• Include UUIDs in REST and WebSocket logs to correlate events and measure duration.

1.10.1 2025-08-13

Fixed

• The signature download fallback now uses only major.minor.patch without any extra labels (like the hash), since the releases server does not include those labels with its artifacts.

v1.10.0 2025-08-05

Changed

• Coder output panel enhancements: all log entries now include timestamps, and you can filter messages by log level in the panel.

Added

• Update /openDevContainer to support all dev container features when hostPath and configFile are provided.
• Add coder.disableUpdateNotifications setting to disable workspace template update notifications.
• Consistently use the same session for each agent. Previously, depending on how you connected, it could be possible to get two different sessions for an agent. Existing connections may still have this problem; only new connections are fixed.
• Add an agent metadata monitor status bar item, so you can view your active agent metadata at a glance.
• Add binary signature verification. This can be disabled with coder.disableSignatureVerification if you purposefully run a binary that is not signed by Coder (for example a binary you built yourself).

v1.9.2 2025-06-25

Fixed

• Use --header-command properly when starting a workspace.

• Handle agent parameter when opening workspace.

Changed

• The Coder logo has been updated.

v1.9.1 2025-05-27

Fixed

• Missing or otherwise malformed START CODER VSCODE / END CODER VSCODE blocks in ${HOME}/.ssh/config will now result in an error when attempting to update the file. These will need to be manually fixed before proceeding.
• Multiple open instances of the extension could potentially clobber writes to ~/.ssh/config. Updates to this file are now atomic.
• Add support for anysphere.remote-ssh Remote SSH extension.

v1.9.0 2025-05-15

Fixed

• The connection indicator will now show for VS Code on Windows, Windsurf, and when using the jeanp413.open-remote-ssh extension.

Changed

• The connection indicator now shows if connecting through Coder Desktop.

v1.8.0 (2025-04-22)

Added

• Coder extension sidebar now displays available app statuses, and lets the user click them to drop into a session with a running AI Agent.

v1.7.1 (2025-04-14)

Fixed

• Fix bug where we were leaking SSE connections

v1.7.0 (2025-04-03)

Added

• Add new /openDevContainer path, similar to the /open path, except this allows connecting to a dev container inside a workspace. For now, the dev container must already be running for this to work.

Fixed

• When not using token authentication, avoid setting undefined for the token header, as Node will throw an error when headers are undefined. Now, we will not set any header at all.

v1.6.0 (2025-04-01)

Added

• Add support for Coder inbox.

v1.5.0 (2025-03-20)

Fixed

• Fixed regression where autostart needed to be disabled.

Changed

• Make the MS Remote SSH extension part of an extension pack rather than a hard dependency, to enable using the plugin in other VSCode likes (cursor, windsurf, etc.)

v1.4.2 (2025-03-07)

Fixed

• Remove agent singleton so that client TLS certificates are reloaded on every API request.
• Use Axios client to receive event stream so TLS settings are properly applied.
• Set usage-app=vscode on coder ssh to fix deployment session counting.
• Fix version comparison logic for checking wildcard support in "coder ssh"

v1.4.1 (2025-02-19)

Fixed

• Recreate REST client in spots where confirmStart may have waited indefinitely.

v1.4.0 (2025-02-04)

Fixed

• Recreate REST client after starting a workspace to ensure fresh TLS certificates.

Changed

• Use coder ssh subcommand in place of coder vscodessh.

v1.3.10 (2025-01-17)

Fixed

• Fix bug where checking for overridden properties incorrectly converted host name pattern to regular expression.

v1.3.9 (2024-12-12)

Fixed

• Only show a login failure dialog for explicit logins (and not autologins).

v1.3.8 (2024-12-06)

Changed

• When starting a workspace, shell out to the Coder binary instead of making an API call. This reduces drift between what the plugin does and the CLI does. As part of this, the session_token file was renamed to session since that is what the CLI expects.

v1.3.7 (2024-11-04)

Added

• New setting coder.tlsAltHost to configure an alternative hostname to use for TLS verification. This is useful when the hostname in the certificate does not match the hostname used to connect.

v1.3.6 (2024-11-04)

Added

• Default URL setting that takes precedence over CODER_URL.
• Autologin setting that automatically initiates login when the extension activates using either the default URL or CODER_URL.

Changed

• When a client certificate and/or key is configured, skip token authentication.

v1.3.5 (2024-10-16)

Fixed

• Error messages from the workspace watch endpoint were not logged correctly.
• Delay notifying about workspaces shutting down since the connection might bump the activity, making the notification misleading.

v1.3.4 (2024-10-14)

Fixed

• The "All Workspaces" view was not being populated due to visibility check.

Added

• Log workspaces queries when running with --log=debug.
• Coder output logs will now have the date prefixed to each line.

v1.3.3 (2024-10-14)

Fixed

• The plugin no longer immediately starts polling workspaces when connecting to a remote. It will only do this when the Coder sidebar is open.

Changed

• Instead of monitoring all workspaces for impending autostops and deletions, the plugin now only monitors the connected workspace.

v1.3.2 (2024-09-10)

Fixed

• Previously, if a workspace stopped or restarted causing the "Start" dialog to appear in VS Code, the start button would fire a start workspace request regardless of the workspace status. Now we perform a check to see if the workspace is still stopped or failed. If its status has changed out from under the IDE, it will not fire a redundant start request.
• Fix a conflict with HTTP proxies and the library we use to make HTTP requests. If you were getting 400 errors or similar from your proxy, please try again.

Changed

• Previously, the extension would always log SSH proxy diagnostics to a fixed directory. Now this must be explicitly enabled by configuring a new setting coder.proxyLogDirectory. If you are having connectivity issues, please configure this setting and gather the logs before submitting an issue.

v1.3.1 (2024-07-15)

Fixed

• Avoid deleting the existing token when launching with a link that omits the token.

v1.3.0 (2024-07-01)

Added

• If there are multiple agents, the plugin will now ask which to use.

Fixed

• If the workspace is stopping as the plugin tries to connect, it will wait for the stop and then try to start the workspace. Previously it would only start the workspace if it happened to be in a fully stopped state when connecting.
• Whenever the plugin wants to start a workspace, it will ask the user first to prevent constantly keeping a workspace up and defeating the point of auto-stop.

v1.2.1 (2024-06-25)

Fixed

• Fix the update dialog continually reappearing.

v1.2.0 (2024-06-21)

Added

• New setting coder.proxyBypass which is the equivalent of no_proxy. This only takes effect if http.proxySupport is on or off, otherwise VS Code overrides the HTTP agent the plugin sets.

v1.1.0 (2024-06-17)

Added

• Workspace and agent statuses now show in the sidebar. These are updated every five seconds.
• Support http.proxy setting and proxy environment variables. These only take effect if http.proxySupport is on or off, otherwise VS Code overrides the HTTP agent the plugin sets.

v1.0.2 (2024-06-12)

Fixed

• Redirects will now be followed when watching a workspace build, like when a workspace is automatically started.

v1.0.1 (2024-06-07)

Changed

• Improve an error message for when watching a build fails.

v1.0.0 (2024-06-05)

Added

• Support opening workspaces that belong to a different deployment than the one which is currently logged in. This will only work for new connections. If you have an existing connection that errors when connecting because of this, please connect it again using the plugin or the Coder dashboard. Optionally, you may also want to delete your old workspaces from the recents list.

Fixed

• Escape variables in the header command. If you have a variable in the header command itself, like echo TEST=$CODER_URL, it will now work as expected instead of being substituted with a blank or erroneous value.

v0.1.37 (2024-05-24)

Added

• openRecent query parameter to open the most recent workspace or directory for that remote.
• Setting to disable downloading the binary. When disabled, the existing binary will be used as-is. If the binary is missing, the plugin will error.

Fixed

• Increased timeout will apply to reconnects as well.

Changed

• Show certificate errors under the token input.

v0.1.36 (2024-04-09)

Changed

• Automatically update a workspace if required by the template.
• Show more information when remote setup fails.

Fixed

• Abort remote connection when remote setup fails.

v0.1.35 (2024-03-12)

Changed

• Support running within Cursor.

v0.1.34 (2024-03-03)

Changed

• Improve fetching the Coder binary. This is mostly just better logging but it also will avoid fetching if the existing binary version already matches, to support scenarios where the ETag is ignored.

v0.1.33 (2024-02-20)

Fixed

• Prevent updating template when automatically starting workspace.