Amazon Q - 1.40.0-SNAPSHOT 2024-12-04

Bug Fix @workspace is missing from the welcome to q chat tab

Bug Fix Fix chat syntax highlighting when using several different themes

Bug Fix Amazon Q /doc: progress bar persists after cancelling README creation

Feature UI improvements to Amazon Q Chat: New splash loader animation, initial streaming card animation, improved button colours

Feature Navigate through prompt history by using the up/down arrows

This is an unsupported preview build of the feature/lambda-get-started branch of AWS IDE Extensions for VSCode.

Install

Download the vsix file(s) from "Assets" below.
- Amazon Q 1.31.0 is provided by amazon-q-vscode….vsix
- AWS Toolkit 3.30.0 is provided by aws-toolkit-vscode….vsix
Run Extensions: Install from VSIX... from the VSCode command palette and choose the vsix file(s).

Changes

Bug Fix EC2 connect: improve management of SSM sessions to minimize chance they are left active.
Bug Fix fixed device code detection when running auth through tunneled vscode
Feature EC2: provide view of ec2 system logs
Feature Added quick action icons and guided walkthrough to more easily build Lambda applications

Breaking Change Change keybind for focusing chat to ctrl+win+i on Windows, ctrl+cmd+i on macOS and ctrl+meta+i on Linux
Bug Fix Inline Suggestions: Occasional ValidationException if user context has too many characters.
Bug Fix Update @workspace index when adding or deleting a file
Bug Fix fixed device code detection when running auth through tunneled vscode
Feature Use inline chat to select code and transform it with natural language instructions
Feature Amazon Q /dev: Add stop generation action
Feature Provide more frequent updates about code changes made by agent