0.98.0 Release Notes Draft

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Release notes for 0.98.0

[daverayment]

I've done a pass to consolidate several related items and to reword some entries to make the overall document more user-facing. I've maintained attribution for external contributors, including adding some corrections where they've been missed in the original doc (specifically @michaeljolley and @chatasweetie).

[daverayment]

I've done a pass to consolidate several related items and to reword some entries to make the overall document more user-facing. I've maintained attribution for external contributors, including adding some corrections where they've been missed in the original doc (specifically @michaeljolley and @chatasweetie).

[niels9001]

@daverayment Big thanks, Dave.. this is great! Yeah, some of these were auto-generated based on commit history and human fine-tuning was required :)!

Parts of the blog post will show up in the release notes too, and this list of release notes at the end so that should cover the education and announcing new features in more details (like we've done in 0.97).

I'll copy your refinements to the actual release draft so they will show up there once 0.98 gets released!

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Suggested Addition — Command Palette → Extensions & SDK

Missing PR #44278: CmdPal: Cache and show information for disabled command providers.

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• Added caching for disabled command providers so their names and descriptions still display in #44278. Thanks @jiripolasek!

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Addition — Command Palette → Bug Fixes

Missing PR #45614: CmdPal: Fix starting new web URI for default browser that doesn't support exe arguments.

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• Fixed opening web URIs in default browsers that don't support exe arguments in #45614. Thanks @jiripolasek!

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Addition — Command Palette → Bug Fixes

Missing PR #45381: CmdPal: Fix alias UI clearing when toggling Direct/Indirect combobox.

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• Fixed alias UI clearing when toggling Direct/Indirect combobox in #45381. Thanks @jiripolasek!

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Addition — Command Palette → Extensions & SDK

Missing PR #46053: CmdPal: make RDP fallback non-global by default.

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• Changed RDP fallback to non-global by default in #46053. Thanks @jiripolasek!

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Addition — Command Palette → Infrastructure & Code Quality

Missing PR #46061: CmdPal: Adding a lock around perf monitor updates.

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• Fixed thread-safety issue in Performance Monitor extension updates in #46061.

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Addition — Keyboard Manager

Missing PR #46069: [KBM] Fixing text replacement bug.

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• Fixed a text replacement bug in #46069.

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Update — Mouse Utilities section

The ## Mouse Utilities\ header exists but has no content. Either add the badge removal entry or remove the empty header:

• Removed new-info badge for Cursor Wrap in #45803.

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Update — Dock section duplicate

The Dock section has two lines referencing #46052 for pin instructions:

• \Added instructions for pinning items to Dock in [Dock] Add pin instructions #46052\
• \Added pin instructions for Dock in [Dock] Add pin instructions #46052\

One of these should be removed.

[yeelam-gordon]

Suggested Update — Always On Top #44815 attribution

The current line thanks @copilot\ for the transparency feature (#44815). The GitHub profile https://github.com/Copilot is the AI bot, not a human contributor. Consider removing the Thanks attribution for this entry.

[Copilot]

@yeelam-gordon I've opened a new pull request, #46149, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you.