CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v1.26.1 (2023-04-16)

Changes

• Apply a patch to ssh2 and make use of it to fix OpenSSH 8.8+ disabling ssh-rsa (SHA1) by default (#309) (8f62809)
  • Patch file in .yarn/patches based on https://github.com/Eugeny/ssh2/tree/rsa-sha applied to [email protected]
  • The patch adds an option convertSha1 to publickey and agent authentication methods on top of Eugeny's modifications
    • When the option is present, ssh-rsa keys will be treated as rsa-sha2-512 or rsa-sha2-256, if the server supports it
  • Added a flag OPENSSH-SHA1 (enabled by default) to pass this convertSha1 flag when using publickey or agent auths
  • Part of this change required creating a custom ssh2 authHandler (based on the built-in version) to pass the option if desired
• Changed the lastVersion extension version tracking to a new versionHistory system to better track bug origins (5314e21)
• Fix error notifications appearing for missing Python config file (d878b78, #379)
  • The FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag was supposed to default to 'write' for VS Code 1.56+ but defaulted to true (i.e. 'all') instead
  • Added /pyproject.toml to the ignore list (added as a configBasedExtensionTips in product.json in VS Code 1.77)

v1.26.0 (2023-03-25)

Changes

• Internally we now have a subscribeToGlobalFlags to use up-to-date global flags (1fb7a52)
  • Currently, this makes it that changing the global flags can immediately have an effect for some flags
  • Global flags are those defined in your User Settings or Workspace(Folder) Settings
  • Mind that if you override those flags by specifying them in your SSH FS config, it'll keep using them
• Added the DEBUG_FS flag to allow enabling detailed conditional logging in sshFileSystem (76a28be, #341)
  • This flag will auto-update when it changes in global flags, unless it's overriden in your SSH FS config
  • Mostly meant for internal debugging or helping with debugging specific user-reported issues
• Added the DEBUG_FSR flag to allow enabing detailed conditional logging for the FileSystemRouter (7d59992)
  • Similar to DEBUG_FS this is mostly meant for internal debugging or when useful for user-reported issues
  • This flag will also auto-update when it changes in global flags.
  • This is a singleton flag and thus unaffected by overriding it in your SSH FS configs
• Improved the above DEBUG_FS flag and refactored the already-existing FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag (20cf037, #341)
  • The FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag will auto-update when it changes in global flags, unless it's overriden in your SSH FS config
  • The FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag is now a string representing a comma-separated list instead of just a boolean
  • While disabled by default for older VS Code versions, starting from VS Code 1.56.0 the default is write
  • The write flag will show a notification should an error happen for a "write" operation
  • Write operations are: createDirectory, writeFile, delete, and rename
  • Since readDirectory, readFile and stat are disabled by default, it should prevent extension detection spam (see #341)
• Added the SHELL_CONFIG flag to force a specific remote shell configuration (5721f1c, #331)
• Refactored how (and also from where) configuration files are loaded (831a247)
  • The extension is now better at splitting up where it loads configs from into layers (global, workspace, ...)
  • When settings change, only the appropriate layer (e.g. a workspace folder) is reloaded, instead of reloading everything
  • Loading config files from the VS Code settings in remote workspaces is now supported
  • All layers, including (remote) workspace folders should fully support the sshfs.configpaths setting
  • Although this can change, for workspace folders, paths specified in the global/workspace settings are also scanned
• Add a new extend config option that allows a config to extend one or more other configs (6eff0be, #268)
  • The extension will automatically detect and report missing or cyclic dependencies, skipping them
  • Note that if a config tries to extend a non-existing config, it will be skipped and an error will also be shown
• Start screen of Settings UI will use the cached list of configs instead of reloading them (5900185)
  • This should make navigating to the start screen (especially when navigating back and forth between configs) faster
  • The Refresh button is now renamed to Reload and will still reload the configs (from disk, remote workspaces, ...)
• Add support for extending configs to the Settings UI (a5372a4, #268)
  • This adds a visual editor to the Settings UI for the extend config option

Development changes

• Move the whole flag system from config.ts to flags.ts (11b8f05)
• Updated Yarn to version 3.5.0 (4d389f3)
• Upgrade a ton of dependencies (8909d05)
  • Replace deprecated vsce with @vscode/vsce@^2.18.0
  • Upgrade TypeScript from ~4.5.5 to ~5.0.2
  • Upgrade Webpack from ^5.69.1 to ^5.76.3
  • Upgrade a bunch of plugins and other dependencies
• Fix linter warnings in Markdown files and remove default webview/README.md (4a62035)
• Fix build workflow to account for incompatibility from using a new vsce version (6985ead)
• Updated the GitHub workflows (eac8a06, #372)
  • Added issue/** to the push and pull_request triggers to automatically build on these branches
  • The build workflow upgraded from ubuntu-18.04 to ubuntu-22.04
  • All actions are upgraded to a more recent version
  • Caching of Yarn dependencies is now handled by actions/setup-node
  • Migrated from actions/create-release and actions/upload-release-asset to softprops/action-gh-release
• Fix Webpack only listening on IPv6 instead of all interfaces + update VS Code default styles (574d466)
• Added the FieldList and derivate FieldConfigList field types to the Settings UI (796d1c2)

v1.25.0 (2022-06-01)

Major change

• Updated from [email protected] to [email protected] (2e14709)
  • Part of this update forces me to ditch ssh2-streams which played a major role for SFTP
  • The ssh2 package has a built-in but unexposed alternative we can more or less use directly
  • The @types/ssh2 is semi-outdated and has lots of inaccuracies, along with missing internal things
  • For this major update a ssh2.ts replacing @types/ssh2 is added to the common module
  • This does pull in a lot of new fixes/features added since [email protected] though
  • Some feature requests are now easier/possible to implement with these new features
• Add initial support for Windows OpenSSH servers (fixes #338) (9410ac2)
  • This adds initial support for Command Prompt, and theoretically PowerShell (untested)
  • The REMOTE_COMMANDS is not yet supported, as it uses the pty's tty for cross-terminal communication
  • Future REMOTE_COMMANDS support for PowerShell (since it can interact with named pipes) is planned
  • Future REMOTE_COMMANDS support for Command Prompt is currently not yet planned, but might be possible
  • Mind that some (future) features won't work (maybe just for now, maybe forever) on Windows

New features

• Added FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag to display notifications for FS errors (ddfafd5, #282)
• Added a ${workingDirectory} variable that gets replaced during terminal creation (ddfafd5, #323)
  • This applies to both the Terminal Command setting and ssh-shell task type
  • See the issue (#323) for why this got added and how you can use it

Changes

• Small improvements to Dropdown(WithInput) UI components (9c83b07)
• Delay and wait for loadConfigs() after logging version info (8c8b950)
  • This solves a small issue/annoyance where logs regarding loading logs appear before the version logging
• When ${workingDirectory} is present in a terminal command, the extension doesn't auto-cd anymore (749a611)
  • Normally the extension runs cd <workingDirectory>; <terminalCommand> or similar
• Auto-silence FileNotFound erors for stat (dc20709, #334)
  • The extension will no longer show notification bubbles for failed stat operations due to non-existing files

Development changes

• Added semver as dependency in preparation of FS_NOTIFY_ERRORS flag (57b8ec6)
• Pin some dependencies and in-range upgrade recursively (c7ac129)
  • More specifically, we now use typescript@~version instead of typescript@^version
  • All dependencies are upgraded within their (package.json-specified) ranges, to get latest patches
• Update to Yarn 3.1.1 and TypeScript ~4.5.5 (83cf22a)
  • Also ditched @yarnpkg/plugin-version which wasn't even really used in the first place
• Created a common module which now holds fileSystemConfig.ts and webviewMessages.ts (85f7a69)
• Improve webview ESLint setup, namely update @typescript-eslint/* and remove unused plugins (2673c72)
• Add prettier and its Yarn PnP SDK integration + VS Code settings (e95c16a)

v1.24.1 (2021-12-07)

New features

• The settings UI now has a table-like field to modify newFileMode (b904fb9, #214)

Changes

• The default newFileMode is now 0o664 instead defaulting to the underlying library's 0o666 (af76438, #214)
  • This changes the permission for newly created files, defaulting to rw-rw-r-- instead of rw-rw-rw-
  • While 0o664 is the default umask for non-root users and 0o644 for root, we default to 0o664 regardless

Development changes

• Fix/improve map-error.js utility (now also uses formatId from webpack.plugin.js) (768bfda)
• Update build process (fa3bc68)
  • Build workflow broke due to using yarn dlx vsce and an vsce major version update requiring Node 14
  • The workflow is now configured to use Node 14 instead of Node 12
  • vsce is now added as a devDependency, which will also result in a speedup due to Yarn caching
• The FieldNumber component in the webview now doesn't always default to 22 as value (00b52d7)
  • This component is only used for the port field, which now passes 22 to FieldNumber by default
• Extracted checkbox CSS from FieldCheckbox to something generic using CSS classes to allow reuse (10cfa31)
  • Also added getValueClassName(): string to FieldBase to allow extra classes. Defaults to "value"

v1.24.0 (2021-11-02)

Changes

• Set $TERM to xterm-256color instead of the default vt100 (16ffd1e, #299)
• Terminals that exit within 5 seconds should now remain open until a key is pressed (55d7216)
• Refactored the REMOTE_COMMANDS beta feature (#270) to use the new ShellConfig system (b9f226e)
  • Commands (currently only code) are now written to a unique folder and passed to $PATH
  • Commands are written in shell scripts (#!/bin/sh shebang) and should work on all shells/systems
  • Using $PATH should allow support for recursive shells, switching shells, ...

Fixes

• Write REMOTE_COMMANDS profile script to separate file for each user (69c2370, #292)
  • Multiple users making use of this feature would use the same /tmp/... file, resulting in permission issues

New features

• Added a ShellConfig system to support more shells regarding environment, home detection and REMOTE_COMMANDS (cc823c6)

v1.23.1 (2021-10-06)

Hotfix

• Fix the issue with failing home detecting for csh/tcsh shells (7605237, #295)

Development changes

• More improvements in logging, especially regarding async stack tracing (e326a16)
  • Properly "set boundaries", detect/analyze and log toPromise/catchingPromise calls

v1.23.0 (2021-10-02)

Fixes

• Fix remote code command (#267) not working without the filesystem already connected (#292) (b821bae)
• Fix bug with broken connections when connections are initiated by spawning named terminals (6f6e3ad)
• Fix issue where .bashrc echoing would result in home directory detection failing (860f65a, #294)

Changes

• Proxy hop field now actually lists all known configs to pick from, instead of "TO DO" (1f7e333, #290)
• Remote code command (#267) now prompts to create an empty file for non-existing path (30c213a)
• Remote code command (#267) now displays a help message when not providing arguments (518e246)

Development changes

• Webpack setup has been improved quite a bit, mostly to clean up long ugly paths and make builds deterministic:
  • The custom ProblemMatcherReporter plugin is moved to /webpack.plugin.js and renamed to WebpackPlugin
  • Now both webpack configs (extension and webview) make use of this plugin
  • The plugin has the ability to remap module names/paths, accounting for several things:
    • Paths in the global /Yarn/Berry/ folder are now displayed as /yarn/ and are simplified for easier reading
    • Paths in the local .yarn folder get the same treatment as global ones, but using .yarn/ as the prefix
    • Other paths that are located within the (config's) project are made relative to the (config's) project root
  • The plugin enhances the stats printer to use the clean simplified paths instead of e.g. ../../../Yarn/etc
  • The plugin handles generating chunk ids (optimization.chunkIds option)
    • Acts mostly like a simplified version of the built-in deterministic option
    • Uses the path remapping, resulting in paths not being different depending on where your global Yarn folder is
    • These deterministic builds result in e.g. the same output chunk filenames
    • Building the same commit on GitHub Actions or your own PC should result in e.g. the same source maps
  • The excludeModules is now configured (and better handled) by the plugin
  • Commits: 3d1aff3, 865969f, c121647
• The problem matcher for the Extension Webview - Watch task has been simplified and fixed due to the above change (3d1aff3)
• Updated Yarn to 3.0.2 (with manual git issue fix applied) (06c8e21)
• Updated TypeScript to ^4.4.3 (06c8e21)
• Added enhance-changelog.js which add commits to "top-level" items in the changelog's "Unreleased" section (dce279d)

1.22.0 (2021-09-21)

Fixes

• Partially fix issue with debug mode on code-server (05e1b69, #279)

Development changes

• I've added a CHANGELOG.md file to the repository containing the changelog for earlier versions. It'll contain already committed changes that have yet to be released.
• The extension now only enters debug mode when the environment variable VSCODE_SSHFS_DEBUG is the (case insensitive) string "true". The ExtensionContext.extensionMode provided by Code does not influence this anymore. This is part due to #279, implemented in 05e1b69 which supersedes 48ef229.

1.21.2 (2021-08-05)

Fixes

• Fix bug in connect command with Root starting with ~ (803dc59, #280)

Changes

• Remove (SSH FS) label from editor titles (fcbd6d7, #278)

1.21.1 (2021-08-01)

Fixes

• Improve effect of CHECK_HOME flag (ef40b07b2d, #277)

Changes

• Better error handling and CHECK_HOME flag support for tryGetHome (87d2cf845a)

Development changes

• Improve map-error.js to work for /dist/extension.js and error report better (bda36c998c)
• Improve logging of errors through promises (c7f1261311)

1.21.0 (2021-07-01)

Major change (315c255)

• An internal change happened, making URIs now represent an absolute path on the server
• In the past, ssh://config/some/path for a config with /root as Root would actually point to /root/some/path on the remote server
• Now, the Root is ignored, so ssh://config/some/path will actually point at /some/path on the remote server
• The Root field is now only checked by the "Add as Workspace Folder" and "Open remote SSH terminal" for the default path. In the above example, you'd get the workspace folder ssh://config/root and have your terminal open with the current directory being /root, assuming you didn't open the terminal by using the context menu in the explorer
• While this shouldn't affect most people, it means that people that have saved/open workspaces with configs with a non-/ Root, it might point at the wrong file/directory. Updating the URI or removing and re-adding the workspace folder should fix it
• This change simplifies a lot of complex code accounting for calculating/validating relative paths, and also allows for future improvements, a good example being a beta feature shown in #267

Fixes:

• Fix proxies breaking when no port is defined (which should default to 22) (a41c435, #266)

New features:

• Added statusBar/remoteIndicator (remote button left-bottom) (d3a3640, #260) See microsoft/vscode#122102 for info and this for an example (with different extensions)
• Add support for environment variables (3109e97, #241) Currently you have to manually edit your JSON settings files to add environment variables. This can be done by adding e.g. "environment": { "FOO": "BAR" }. Variables will be export FOO=BAR'd (fully escaped) before running the shell command. This affects both terminals and ssh-shell tasks.
• Added a CHECK_HOME flag (default: true) to toggle checking the home directory (315c255) The extension checks whether your home directory (queried using echo ~) is a directory. Since some exotic setups might have home-less users, you can add -CHECK_HOME as a flag (see #270)
• Add code as a remote command to open files/directories locally (7d930d3, #267) Still a beta feature which requires the REMOTE_COMMANDS flag (see #270) enabled. Tries to inject an alias (well, function) named code in the remote terminal's shell. The "command" only accepts a single argument, the (relative or absolute) path to a file/directory. It will tell the extension (and thus VS Code) to open the file/directory. Files are opened in an editor, directories are added as workspace folders. Errors are displayed in VS Code, not your terminal. Due to how complex and unreliable it is to inject aliases, this feature is still in beta and subject to change.

Minor changes:

• Added virtualWorkspaces capabilities to package.json (8789dd6)
• Added untrustedWorkspaces capabilities (cca8be2, #259, microsoft/vscode#120251)
• The Disconnect command now only shows connections to choose from (36a440d)
• Added resourceLabelFormatters contribution, for better Explorer tooltips (5dbb36b)
• Added viewsWelcome contribution, to fill in empty configs/connections panes (4edc2ef)

Development changes:

• Added some initial when clause contexts (b311fec)
  • Currently only sshfs.openConnections, sshfs.openTerminals and sshfs.openFileSystems
• Some small refactors and improvements (5e5286d, 06bce85, f17dae8, 1258a8e, f86e33a)

1.20.2 (2021-06-28)

Fixes

• Allow usernames with dashes for instant connection strings (#264, f05108a) This only affected the "Create instant connection" option within certain commands in the public version of the extension. This also affected people (manually) using connection strings to interact with file systems or use as "hop" within JSON configs.

New features

• Add config option for agent forwarding (#265, d167ac8) The settings UI now has a simple checkbox to toggle agent forwarding. Mind that this automatically gets disabled if you authenticate without an agent!

Development changes

• Updated to TypeScript 4.3.4
• Updated defaultStyles.css for VS Code CSS variables
• Settings UI now supports checkbox fields
• Extension code base now uses webpack 5 instead of webpack 4

1.20.1 (2021-04-14)

Fixes

• Closing connection shouldn't delete workspace folders if a related filesystem exists (cdf0f99) Basically you have connection A (with a terminal or so) and connection B (with a file system) both for the same config name. Before, closing connection A would also delete/remove the workspace folder, even though connection B still provides the file system. With this change, closing a connection won't delete the folder if it detects another connection (for the same name) providing SFTP.
• Add WINDOWS_COMMAND_SEPARATOR config flag to support Windows OpenSSH servers (see #255) Mind that you'll also need to change Terminal Command into e.g. powershell, as Windows doesn't support the $SHELL variable

Changes

• The extension now tracks which version was last used (fdb3b66) Currently unused, but might be used in the future to notify the user of breaking changes, optionally with auto-fix.
• Config flags can now be specified per config (9de1d03)
  • An example use of this an be seen in #255.
  • Note: Configs (and thus their flags) are cached when a connection is created!
    • This means that changes to the config flags won't apply until the connection is closed and a new one is created.
    • The extension already starts a new (parallel) connection when the currently saved config mismatches a running connection's config.
• The extension will now replace task variables (e.g. remoteWorkspaceFolder) in Terminal Command (#249) This does *not handle VS Code's built-in "local" task variables like workspaceFolder, although support for this could be added later.

1.20.0 (2021-03-19)

New features

• Add task variables for remote files #232 (example)
  • Supported variables (e.g. ${remoteFile}) can be seen here
  • Some variables support a workspace name as argument, similar to the built-in variables, e.g. ${remoteWorkspaceFolder:FolderName}
• Add taskCommand #235
  • Similar to terminalCommand, but for ssh-shell tasks
  • Setting it to e.g. echo A; $COMMAND; echo B results in the task echoing A, running the task command, then echoing B

Development changes

• Switched from official ssh2-streams to Timmmm/ssh2-streams#patch1
  • Potentially fixing #244
• Updated to TypeScript 4.2.3
• Updated all other dependencies within the existing specified version range (minor and patch updates)
• Build workflow now caches the Yarn cache directory
• Build workflow now uses Node v12 instead of v10
• Added a Publish workflow to publish the extension to VS Marketplace and Open VSX Registry

1.19.4 (2021-03-02)

Changes

• Flag system is improved. The DF-GE flag (see #239) will now automatically enable/disable for affected Electron versions. People that were making use of the DF-GE flag to disable this fix, should now use -DF-GE or DF-GE=false instead.

Development changes

• GitHub Actions workflow now makes use of the Event Utilities GitHub action (6d124f8) This is mostly the old code, but now better maintained and made publicly available to anyone. Doesn't really affect the extension. Just cleans up the workflow file, instead of requiring a relatively big complex chunk of bash script.

1.19.3 (2021-02-15)

Changes

• Instant connections with as hostname an existing config will result in the configs being merged
  • e.g. user2@my-config will use the same config as my-config, but with user2 as the user
  • The "instant connection bonuses" are still applied, e.g. trying to match the (new) config against a PuTTY session on Windows
• Typing in a config/connection picker (e.g. the SSH FS: Open a remote SSH terminal command) acts smarter for instant connections
  • Entering a value and selecting Create instant connection will carry over the entered value to the new input box
• Instant connections are now much better at matching against PuTTY sessions
  • The discovery process of PuTTY sessions will no longer spam the output (only "interesting" fields are outputted)
  • It will now try to first find a session with the given host as name, then try again by matching username/hostname
  • This improved matching should also work for non-instant connections, aka regular configurations
• Overhauled README with updated graphics, list of features, ...
• Fixed a bug regarding the SFTP Sudo config field misbehaving in the config editor

Other news

I'm in the process of claiming the "Kelvin" namespace on the Open VSX Registry. In the future, new versions will also be pushed to it, instead of relying on their semi-automated system to do it sometime.

1.19.2 (2021-02-11)

Hotfix

• Add an auto-enabled patch for #239
  • Disables all diffie-hellman-group-exchange KEX algorithms (unless the user overrides this option)
  • Adding the flag DF-GE to your sshfs.flags, e.g. "sshfs.flags": ["DF-GE"] disables this fix

New features

• Instant connections
  • The "Add as Workspace Folder" and "Open remote SSH terminal" now suggest "Create instant connection"
  • Allows easily setting up unconfigured connections, e.g. [email protected]:22/home/user
  • The connection string supports omitting user (defaults to $USERNAME), port (22) and path (/)
  • On Windows, the extension will automatically try to resolve it to a PuTTY session (e.g. user@SessionName/home/user)
    • This part is still not fully finished, and currently has bugs. Use [email protected] to make it work
    • Better support for PuTTY will be added soon
  • A workspace file can add instant connections as workspace folders by using the instant connection string
    • If the connecting string does not contain a @, it's assumed to be a config name (old default behavior)
  • Roadmap: once #107 is fully added, instant connections will also support OpenSSH config files, similar to PuTTY support
• Flag system, available under the sshfs.flags config option. Allows specifying flags to change certain options/features that aren't supported by the UI.
• Adding "debug": true to your SSH FS config will enable ssh2/ssh2-streams debug logging for that config

Development changes

• The GitHub repository now has a workflow (GitHub Actions) to build the extension and draft releases
• Improve how the extension "simplifies" error messages for missing files for (built-in) extension checks
  • Now supports workspace folders with ssh://name/path as URI instead of just ssh://name/
  • Added /app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml to the ignore list (recently added in VS Code itself)
• WebView went through a small refactorization/cleanup, to make future work on it easier
  • Unused files removed, small basically identical files merged, ...
  • Switch from deprecated react-scripts-ts to react-scripts (with ESLint support)
  • Removed the custom react-dev-utils module (was required for react-scripts-ts with VS Code)
  • Fix problemMatcher for the webview watch build task
• Remove streams.ts + simplify tryGetHome in manager.ts to not depend on it anymore

1.19.1 (2020-12-17)

New features

• Add TerminalLinkProvider for absolute paths

Changes

• Upgrade @types/vscode and minimum VSCode version from 1.46.0 to 1.49.0
• Small internal improvements
• Fix some bugs

1.19.0 (2020-12-17)

New features

• SSH FS view with nice UI for listing configs, managing connections/terminals, ...
• Support prompting the Host field
• Add Terminal command field to change the terminal launch command (defaults to $SHELL)

Changes

• Upgrade codebase to [email protected]
• Refactor Manager, add ConnectionManager
• Small bug fixes, improved logging, ...

Earlier

Check the releases page to compare commits for older versions.