The Cody Core team follows a weekly release cadence, with one week of QA soak time before the release is promoted to stable. In addition to these planned releases, patch releases are cut as needed to address critical bugs and fixes through cherry-picks.

We encourage team members to use pre-release channels for both VS Code and JetBrains during the QA soak time to help identify any issues early.

Unified Release Process

Starting from November 6 2024, we are aligning the JetBrains and VS Code release processes. Both the JetBrains and VS Code extensions are now cut from the same commit. This alignment allows us to maintain a consistent development and release cycle across both platforms.

• Pre-releases will now be weekly and no longer be nightly
• Pre-releases for both VS Code and JetBrains are cut from the same commit.
• Pre-releases are provided to QA at the same time.
• The QA soak time is one week, during which the QA team and internal users validate the releases.
• Upon successful QA validation, and ensuring there are no ship-blocking bugs, we proceed to submit stable versions to the respective marketplaces.
• The marketplace approval process:
  • Not required for VS Code.
  • May still take up to two business days for JetBrains.

For more information, see the Release Captain Playbook

Release Captain Playbook

Release Schedule

Depending on the timezone of the release captain and the status of QA, you can expect:

• VS Code release every Wednesday, and no later than Thursday of that week.