article: VS Code v1.9.0 release

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+title: Radu Rentea
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+title: "ESP-IDF VS Code Extension v1.9.0 release"
+date: 2025-01-16
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+featureAsset: "img/featured/featured-vscode-extension-release.webp"
+tags: ["News", "ESP-IDF extension", "VSCode", "Visual Studio Code", "IDE"]
+authors:
+- "radu-rentea"
+---
+[ESP-IDF VS Code Extension](https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension) v1.9.0 has been released! It introduces new features and many improvements. If you face any issues or have improvement ideas, please share them as a [Github issue](https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/issues).
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+## New Features and Improvements
+
+**Enhanced User Experience**
+- Added two new interactive walkthroughs: "Basic Usage Guide" and "Advanced Features" for better user onboarding
+- Improved project creation from examples with enhanced UI/UX
+- Enhanced framework selection in examples and new projects
+- Optimized UX/UI for creating projects from examples
+
+**Serial Device Management**
+- Introduced new configuration options for serial port filtering with `idf.useSerialPortVendorProductFilter` and `idf.enableSerialPortChipIdRequest`
+- Added customizable USB PID/VID filters through `idf.usbSerialPortFilters`
+- Default filtering now shows only known USB serial ports based on product and vendor IDs
+- Added option to disable chip ID display in serial port list
+
+**Project Configuration**
+- Enhanced support for multiple sdkconfig files in Project Configuration Editor with multiple profiles
+- Automated environment setup by computing ESP-IDF tools from `IDF_PATH` and `IDF_TOOLS_PATH`
+- Removed redundant configuration options in favor of automated path computation
+- Added notification for missing **compile_commands.json** file with generation option for better IntelliSense support
+- Improved ESP-IDF variables handling using `idf_tools.py export --format key-value`
+
+**Development Features**
+- Added linker (ld) error display in VS Code 'Problems' window (Thanks to contributor [@GillesZunino](https://github.com/GillesZunino))
+- Implemented support for new ESP-IDF Size JSON format in binary analysis (ESP-IDF v5.3+)
+- Added validation to prevent device reset during active debug sessions
+- Updated QEMU implementation with support for both ESP32 and ESP32-C3 targets
+- Enhanced telemetry reporting
+
+## Bug Fixes
+- Fixed monitor terminal reset issues when using separate window layouts
+- Fixed unit tests not refreshing when using the Refresh tests button
+- Fixed ESP-IDF constraint file version parsing to match ESP-IDF's naming convention (major.minor only)
+- Fixed monitoring message display during flash failures
+- Fixed monitor device reset behavior during debug sessions
+- Fixed Docker configuration by using ESP-IDF tools version of QEMU
+
+Check the full [release notes](https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/releases/tag/v1.9.0) for more detailed information.

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+	"bio": "Software Engineer at Espressif",
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+			{ "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/radu-rentea/" },
+			{ "github": "https://github.com/radurentea" }
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