KBEditor Changelog

All notable changes to the KBEditor product. Each release documents changes across three independent streams:

• ✦Plugins — GeneXus language extensions (IntelliSense, parser, validator, visual editor, etc.)
• ✦Platform — KBEditor-specific infrastructure (license manager, MCP server, embed pipeline, CI/CD)
• ✦VS Code — Upstream VS Code base (via VSCodium)

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1.10.0 — 2026-08-10

Plugins v1.11.6 | VS Code 1.109.4

MINOR bump — ten plugin versions pulled (v1.10.3 → v1.11.6). Headline: WorkPanel is a first-class object type and its Win Form has a full visual editor — render, select, move, resize, align, multi-select, add/remove grid columns and tab pages, and edit every property from the GX Properties panel, with the .gxWinForm XML preserved byte for byte through the round-trip. The desktop-form object that the modern GeneXus IDE no longer lets you create is now editable in KBEditor. Also in the range: a data-loss fix where editing an SDT member's property could corrupt an unrelated source file, and the watcher fixes that stopped saves from being silently swallowed after a KB re-export.

⚠️ Requires KB Sync Engine v1.7.6+ (v1.7.6.1+ for the full Work Panel property set) — a larger jump than usual. Older Engines will not round-trip .gxWinForm files.

📎 Upstream renumbered its own versions. What we shipped in KBEditor 1.9.0 as Plugins v1.9.17 / v1.9.18 / v1.9.19 is now called v1.10.0 / v1.10.1 / v1.10.2 in the plugins repo — same commits, same content, renamed in place because the File object type warranted a MINOR bump on their side. The 1.9.0 entry below is left as it was published; no KBEditor release is missing.

Plugins

v1.11.6 — 2026-08-10

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Builds canceled because the KB needs a database reorganization are labeled "Reorg pending" instead of the generic "Canceled", with the Engine's explanation of what to reorganize expanded by default. The existing Retry button re-sends the same request once the reorg has been applied from the GeneXus IDE (Build > Impact Database Tables). Recognised by the request-level message code, so cancellations for any other reason still read as plain Canceled.

v1.11.5 — 2026-08-07

• ✦Changed: A Win Form is now a .gxWinForm file, and .gxForm means a web form and nothing else — the two are different XML formats that had been sharing one extension, and that collision is what kept a Transaction's desktop form from being synchronised at all. A Work Panel's form is now <Name>.WorkPanel.gxWinForm, and a Transaction can carry three files (source, web form, Win Form). File contents are unchanged and there is nothing to migrate — Work Panel support was never released, so no file in the field carries the old name. Requires KB Sync Engine v1.7.6+.
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] The Win Form editor opens by extension rather than by object type, so it covers a Transaction's Win Form with no further work. Everything that derives one companion file from another was updated with it, and the "is this variable/attribute used on the form?" check now looks at both forms.
• ✦Changed: [core] .gxWinForm has its own file icon, language association and syntax; the Open Win Form link above a source points at it, and the back-to-source button appears in the Win Form toolbar. Where an object has both forms, the link above the source still offers only the web one.
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] .gxWinForm files are watched, tracked and grouped under their object like the other companion files — without this, editing a Win Form produced no pending change at all.
• ✦Added: [core-lib] Work Panel property vocabulary expanded from 8 to 38 entries in the shared properties config, so the GX Properties panel exposes the object's full set (Triggers, ConfirmTransactions, BorderStyle, ModalDialog, JoinManagement, …). All labels reuse tokens already coined for Transaction / Procedure / SDPanel. Requires KB Sync Engine v1.7.6.1+.

v1.11.4 — 2026-08-06

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Win Form Position (Left/Top/Width/Height) now nests under Layout in the GX Properties panel, matching the designer — the 19 schemas that declare them moved to the hierarchical category: "Layout/Position" convention.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Dynamic Combo/List Box bound to a short attribute but showing a long description is sized by the description, in both Win Form and Web Form — a TestId (Numeric(4)) drawn as a combo whose description comes from TestTitle (Character(50)) was ~4 characters wide instead of ~50. Sizing now resolves from the first attribute of Item Descriptions (or Item Values), falling back to the bound attribute.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The same sizing now also works with Data Source From = Data Provider — the editor walks .gxForm → DP .gxSource → output SDT → field, reading the declared length off the field's DataType. Any broken step falls back silently to the previous behaviour.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Win Form Radio Button draws one radio per option instead of a single 13-pixel circle labelled with the attribute name — Values = Name1:1,Name2:2 renders one glyph per pair, vertical or horizontal per Radio Direction, and auto-resizes accordingly.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Data Provider and Parameters in a Win Form get their picker / code editor, matching the Web Form — they were declared as plain read-only strings.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Item Values / Item Descriptions become dropdowns of the DP output SDT's fields when Data Source From = Data Provider, populated by walking the DP → SDT chain. Item Values filters to fields type-compatible with the bound attribute, both preserve the SDT's declaration order, and the first compatible field is pre-selected as a hint — written to the .gxForm only when the user explicitly picks it.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The … picker of any type: reference property now works from the Win Form editor — only the Web Form and Pattern Editor were wiring that bridge, so the button silently did nothing.

v1.11.3 — 2026-08-05

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Win Form control bound to an attribute keeps its Control Info, and its control type survives an edit — where those settings live is the opposite of the variable case (form file vs. source), and only the variable case was handled.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] A Web Panel attribute now shows the full Control Info for its control type — a Dynamic Combo Box used to display only Add Empty Item; 13 properties were added (Data Source From, Data Provider, Parameters, Item Values, Item Descriptions, Sort Descriptions, Conditions, Instantiated Attributes, Filter Operator, Suggest Max Items, Case Sensitive, Radio Direction, Control Title), each visible only when its control type applies.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Edit-only properties no longer appear on other control types in a Web Panel — Input Type, Suggest, Auto correction, Auto capitalization, Notify Context Change and Is Password are now hidden when Control Type ≠ Edit.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] The shared attribute picker gained an "attributes only" mode — Item Values, Item Descriptions and Instantiated Attributes only accept attributes, so offering variables there was misleading.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The code editor popup (…) of Conditions / Parameters works outside the Pattern Editor — it was routed exclusively to the Pattern Editor, so clicking … on a Web Panel attribute did nothing. Both routes now use the shared native code-editor service (temp file in a split below, Ctrl+S applies and closes).
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The GX Properties panel stays populated while that popup is open, and repeated open/save cycles never lose the change — three mechanisms cover the three failure modes seen in testing (context snapshot + repopulate, serialised open/close so two cycles cannot race, and a fallback to the last non-empty context).
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Win Form Conditions / Instantiated Attributes get their … button, and Item Values / Item Descriptions / Instantiated Attributes open the attribute-only picker.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Data Source From for a Win Form dynamic combo/list no longer defaults to Values — a value the designer never offers; it now drops that option and defaults to Attributes.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Values on a Win Form combo / list box / radio button gets the two-column values editor instead of an empty read-only text box.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Seven Control Info properties whose stored XML name differs from their label now read and write the right entry — Item Values, Item Descriptions, Suggest Max Items, Sort Descriptions, Radio Direction, Conditions and Instantiated Attributes are stored as ControlItemValues, ControlItemDescription, MaxItems, ControlSortDescription, ControlDirection, ControlWhere, ControlRestrictedBy. Values already saved in a form are now visible and editable.

v1.11.2 — 2026-08-04

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Win Form combo, list box, radio button or check box shows its actual values instead of blank fields — Values, Item Values, Suggest, Checked Value, Data Provider and the rest of the Control Info block are not stored in the .gxForm at all: GeneXus keeps them on the bound variable, inside #Variables of the .WorkPanel.gxSource. The editor now reads both sources and shows them merged, as the designer does.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Editing one of those properties no longer loses the change silently — the fields were shown empty and editable, and whatever was typed went into the .gxForm, which the Sync Engine does not read on import. The value reappeared in the panel (re-read from the same wrong place), so the edit looked saved and never reached GeneXus. Each property now goes to the file that owns it.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Complex properties in GX Properties are editable at last, each with the right editor — Values opens the two-column Values Editor, Item Values / Item Descriptions / Instantiated Attributes the attribute picker, Conditions / Data Provider Parameters the code editor, Data Provider a KB picker, Font the font editor. They used to be greyed out and read-only on every panel, so this reaches well beyond Win Forms.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Changing a data control's Control Type keeps both files in step — the type is carried by the XML tag (<CTRL_COMBO>) while the variable records it as a property; only the tag was being rewritten. Requires KB Sync Engine v1.5.22+.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Control Info properties of a dynamic combo/list appear and disappear as in the designer — the SDK states every dependency (Data Provider only when the source is Data Provider, Item Values only when Attributes, the Suggest family only when suggestions are on) and all of them were being listed at once.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] 53 properties whose default GeneXus computes at runtime no longer show a wrong one — where the definition file and the designer disagree, the property falls back to the value declared at the variable level; where they are the same value spelled differently (Begins with vs BeginsWith) they are reconciled instead of dropped.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Selecting a Work Panel variable in the .gxSource shows its Control Info — the panel looked for the binding as an XML attribute (web form / abstract layout), but a Win Form writes it as an element, so no Work Panel variable was ever recognised as being on its form.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A variable lists only the Control Info its control type actually has — a combo used to show the properties of a plain edit and of a dynamic combo alongside its own, twenty at once.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Auto capitalization offers the options GeneXus accepts (None, First word, First letter of each word) instead of the mobile-platform set, and Auto correction defaults to True as in the IDE. Both also show on the form, not only in the source.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Changing a variable's control type removes the settings that no longer apply, listing what was dropped in the GeneXus Visual Editor output channel; undo restores it in one step.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Editing a variable's properties no longer mixes LF into a CRLF .gxSource — every edit used to leave a few lines in a different style and show up as diff noise.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] DataProvider is accepted as a property name inside a variable's property block — DataProvider = 'RetMenus' next to ControlType = 'DynamicCombo' (the standard way to bind a dynamic combo to a DP) failed with Mismatched input 'DataProvider' because it is a dedicated object-type keyword.

v1.11.1 — 2026-08-03

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] The Toolbox offers Win Form controls and dropping one on a Work Panel form creates it — Button, Text, Attribute/Variable, Rectangle, Line, Image, Grid, Tab, Group Box. The drop lands in whatever container is under the cursor however deep (a control dropped on a tab page belongs to that page; one dropped on a grid becomes a column), and inherits the font, colours and border style of its new siblings rather than the SDK defaults.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Controls can also be created from the canvas right-click menu, inserted exactly where the menu was opened.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Picking up a Toolbox item puts the editor in "place" mode as a fallback — VSCode renders each panel in its own iframe and Chromium withholds drag events from an iframe that has not been focused recently, so a drag intermittently delivers nothing. A bar then reads "Click on the form to place the … · Esc to cancel" and a single click drops the control.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Buttons show their real caption instead of the word "Confirm" — the format has no Caption property: button, label, check box, radio button, group box and tab page captions live in CaptionExpression as a token stream. All six types now read and write it, and refuse to overwrite a computed expression.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Controls that size themselves are drawn at their real size — while Auto Resize is on (the default) GeneXus ignores the stored Width/Height and recomputes from the data type and font. Resizing with the mouse now writes Auto Resize = False alongside the new size, as the designer does.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Same Width / Same Height / Same Size on a multi-selection (W E S), in both the Win Form and Procedure Layout editors.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Auto Resize is editable from the panel on every control that has it.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Win Form control properties now come from the Sync Engine's catalogue instead of a hand-made list — the schemas had been reconstructed from an exported .gxForm, and since the Engine only externalises what differs from the default, every property left at its default was missing: a button showed 11 properties and actually has 22, a data control went from 20 to 64. The catalogue also carries each property's real name inside the file, so the editor no longer writes properties GeneXus silently ignores. Requires KB Sync Engine v1.5.22+.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Properties are listed in the designer's order, under its headings, with its conditional behaviour — IDE-only properties (Tag, Enabled, the individual font flags) are gone from the grid, Width/Height are greyed out while Auto Resize is on, Horizontal Alignment disappears on a check box.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Win Form combo, check box or dynamic combo is shown as what it is — the kind is carried by the XML tag alone (<CTRL_COMBO>, <CTRL_CHECK>), with no property saying so, and the editor was reading a Control Type property the file never has, so everything rendered as a plain edit.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Objects the user never touched no longer appear as pending changes after a window focus — a fix from two days earlier (preserving the snapshot entry when the export filter skipped a change) injected false positives in the opposite direction: once the Engine re-exported any other object, the shared exports file's mtime moved and the protection window quietly stopped applying, so the leftover diff was reported as Modified. The reconciler now absorbs the actual state of disk on every pass.

v1.11.0 — 2026-08-02

• ✦Added: WorkPanel (Win Form) is a first-class GeneXus object type across every extension — a .WorkPanel.gxSource is parsed, validated, indexed, iconified and searchable exactly like a Web Panel. Work Panels are the legacy desktop-form object that GeneXus still supports but the modern IDE no longer lets you create. Before this release the analyzer flagged WorkPanel as an unknown keyword on line 1, the object never entered the KB cache, and the Explorer showed the generic fallback icon. Requires KB Sync Engine v1.5.19+.
• ✦Added: [analyzer] The WorkPanel header accepts the same sections as a Web Panel (#Rules, #Events, #Conditions, #Variables), and &WorkPanel keeps working as a variable name — the same regression that hit &File was headed off up front this time, in both the variable and member positions.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] New visual editor for the Win Form — it renders as a form, not as raw XML — the frame surface, rectangles and lines, labels, 3D-sunken data fields, raised buttons, the grid with its column titles, and the tab control with clickable pages. Containers nest to any depth and coordinates follow the IDE's rules (children of a tab page are relative to the page; grid columns have no coordinates — their order in the document is their order on screen). Zoom with Ctrl + wheel, drag to pan, Fit to frame.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Win Forms are editable — properties and the layout itself. Setting a property back to its default removes it from the file rather than writing the default, exactly as the Engine stores forms; new properties are inserted where the Engine would put them, and existing ones are never reordered, so a form written by GeneXus keeps its shape and edits produce a minimal diff.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] The .gxWinForm XML survives an open/close cycle byte for byte — the parser and serializer preserve the encoding="utf-16" declaration the Engine writes (even though the file is UTF-8), CRLF endings, two-space indentation, the four-line shape of every <Property>, empty blocks, the absence of a trailing newline, and the original property order. A verification script (scripts/test-winform-roundtrip.js) checks this against any folder of forms.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Drag to move, eight handles to resize, alignment guides that snap (Ctrl to place freely), arrow-key nudge (Shift for ten pixels), and a line — being zero pixels tall — offering only the two handles that can stretch it.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Multi-selection with Shift+click or a selection box, dragged as a group in a single undo step, with a primary control (solid blue, the rest dimmed) anchoring the alignment commands.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Floating alignment toolbar with the same commands, icons and shortcuts as the Procedure Layout editor: align (L C R T M B), distribute (H V), bring to front / send to back (] [).
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Grid columns and tab pages can be added, removed and reordered — Arrange Columns lists every column with its width and buttons to add, delete and move; adding a column asks for its binding through the shared picker and creates it the way the Engine writes them (no coordinates, inheriting font and colours from its siblings).
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] A data control's binding can be changed with the shared attribute/variable picker, and binding to an undeclared variable declares it in #Variables — writing to the sibling .WorkPanel.gxSource with that section's existing indentation, producing its own entry in the changes file. GeneXus' predefined variables (&Today, &Time, …) are never declared.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Data fields without an explicit Width are sized from what they are bound to, following AttID → variable or attribute → domain → base type, because the Engine only externalises properties that differ from the SDK default.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Controls extending past the form's edge are drawn overflowing, with the same red "!" corner marker the Procedure Layout editor uses, and the canvas scrolls far enough to reach them.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Forms declared for more than one generator show a tab per variant (Windows / Text / Mobile) — Windows is rendered, the others preserved untouched. A form marked dynamic="true" is read-only with a banner offering to unlock it, since the Engine regenerates those from the KB and would discard the changes.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Work Panel is in the "New Object" dialog with its own icon; unlike other form-bearing types whose form is created empty, the Win Form is seeded with a minimal valid document, because an empty file is not a parseable Win Form.
• ✦Added: [core] New WK badge and dedicated icons for .WorkPanel.gxSource / .gxProperties / .gxWinForm, plus WorkPanel header highlighting on line 1. The CodeLens above the source reads "Open Win Form".
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Work Panel changes show up with a WkP type badge — source and form already travelled to the Engine sharing one qualifiedName, like a Web Panel's pair.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] A Win Form no longer opens in the web Form Editor, where it rendered as a stray text node and could be corrupted on save — the custom editor claimed every **/*.gxForm, so the first save would have rewritten the document with the HTML serializer, destroying the <Property> structure the round-trip depends on.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The GX Properties panel populates from line 1 of a Panel, WebComponent and WebMasterPage source — those keywords were missing from the object-declaration matcher.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] "Save Object As…" rewrites the first line when duplicating a WebMasterPage — the duplicate kept the original object name on its header, which the Engine would import as an edit of the original. Table and Group were missing too.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] WebComponent and WebMasterPage are no longer analysed as if they were Procedures — both detection paths fell through to their default branch, so those sources were validated with Procedure rules.

v1.10.5 — 2026-08-02

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Property edits on an SDT member no longer risk corrupting an unrelated source file — a data-loss bug confirmed by the KB Sync Engine team: the writer searched the target file for the member's name and injected the property block on the first match, so if the target was actually another .gxSource declaring a variable with the same name (a RefreshToken variable in a Procedure while SDTAuthResponse.RefreshToken was being edited), it silently added the member's properties inside that variable's block. Two guards now block it — the writer refuses to run unless the file starts with an SDT / StructuredDataType declaration, and the change handler refuses any SDT member edit whose target is not an SDT source. A refusal surfaces a warning and a diagnostic block in the output channel; nothing is written to disk.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] The Builds tab shows whether the Engine auto-builds after every import, and with what scope — so when a save arrives and no build appears you can tell whether auto-build is off (expected) or something failed. Older Engines get "Info not available (Sync Engine < v1.5.20)" rather than a misleading "off". Requires KB Sync Engine v1.5.20+.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] The same object no longer floods My Sources with 10+ near-identical "Skipped" cards after a re-export — the dedup window widened from 5 seconds to 5 minutes per (file, reason), and consecutive cards sharing a file and reason render as one card with a ×N badge.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Opening a project no longer produces dozens of "Skipped" cards for untouched objects — a housekeeping filter that discards files older than the last bulk export was surfacing as user-visible skips. It still runs and is still logged, it just no longer clutters the panel.
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] Discarded save attempts are now opt-in, off by default — a new "Show discarded save attempts" toggle on the Sync Settings tab. The buffer is populated in the background either way, so turning it on shows the last ~100 immediately.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Clicking an auto-sized control no longer marks the file as modified — any gesture crossing the 3-pixel drag threshold was treated as a resize and unconditionally added AutoResize='False', rewriting the file with a new mtime. AutoResize is now only turned off when the width or height actually changed.

v1.10.4 — 2026-08-01

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] A re-exported object is observable by the watcher again — the previous release fixed the 5-minute window but the object still went permanently deaf for two other reasons: the "clean up My Sources after a resolved re-export" step deleted every change entry of the file rather than only those predating the re-export, and the reconciler absorbed the new mtime into its snapshot even when the change had been skipped. Both are now aware of the re-export's completion timestamp.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Saves the editor intentionally discards now show up with a "Skipped" badge and a human explanation (echo of a KBBridge re-export, unresolved git merge markers, duplicate within 5 s, unrecognised GeneXus file), instead of being dropped silently and leaving the user with "I saved and nothing happened". Informational only — they never travel to the Engine and clear on reload.

v1.10.3 — 2026-07-31

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] &Header and &Footer are accepted as variable names — both are keywords because print-output Procedures use Header … End / Footer … End blocks, and they were shadowing the identifier when preceded by &. Method chains on them (&Header.ToUpper()) also parse.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Negative numbers in a Domain's EnumValues no longer break parsing with a spurious Missing 'EndIf' further down the file — an enumerated domain using negative error codes (Value: -32700) sent the parser into error recovery that drifted until it found a ]. Negative numbers are now accepted anywhere a simple value is expected.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] A save on an object KBBridge had re-exported earlier shows up in My Sources instead of being swallowed — the export filter kept a 5-minute window open per object, and the "last export timestamp" was computed against the shared exports file's mtime, which any other object's export bumped, renewing the filter indefinitely. It now skips a change only when the file's mtime is within a few seconds of the export write itself.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt from plugins v1.11.6 with build-bundle.py --compile: 759 JS / 10 CSS / 59 JSON, 2.4 MB (was 750 / 9 / 39 / 2.3 MB). Per extension: analyzer 248, visual-editor 217 (was 187), language-server 186, sync-status 66, validator 43, controller 41, core 39.
• ✦No packaging changes were needed for the Win Form editor's assets: build-bundle.py already copies the visual editor's schemas/ and webview/ directories wholesale, so the 20 new schemas/winform-controls/*.json control schemas (+20 JSON), the new webview/winform-editor/styles.css (+1 CSS) and the compiled winform-editor.js were picked up automatically. No new runtime dependency was introduced.
• ✦Shared configs synced (core-lib/shared/*.json → kbbridge/shared/): gx-properties-config.json grew 256 KB → 280 KB (Work Panel's property vocabulary 8 → 38 entries). The controlTypes catalogue the Win Form editor consumes is generated KB-side by the Sync Engine and checked into the plugin repo as the schemas/winform-controls/ files, so it needs no mirror here.
• ✦VSIX skeletons: genexus-language-core, genexus-sync-status and genexus-visual-editor package.json synced by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — the genexus.winFormEditor custom editor for **/*.gxWinForm, the kbbridge.unlockWinForm command, .WorkPanel.gxSource/.gxProperties and .gxWinForm associations, and the gxSync.showSkippedAttempts setting.
• ✦Manual VSIX declaratives (not covered by skeleton sync, which only rewrites package.json): updated genexus.tmLanguage.json in the language-core VSIX (WorkPanel added to the line-1 object-declaration match) and icon-theme.json + workpanel.svg / workpanel-form.svg in the icons VSIX. Also added procedure-layout.svg, which icon-theme.json already referenced but which had drifted out of the VSIX in an earlier release — a dead icon reference until now.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — the visual editor gained 30 files (the whole Win Form editor: provider, model, XML parser/serializer, type resolver, variable binding, DP field resolver, 20 control schemas, webview + stylesheet), and analyzer, validator, core, core-lib and sync-status all changed as well.

1.9.0 — 2026-07-28

Plugins v1.9.19 | VS Code 1.109.4

MINOR bump — seven plugin versions pulled (v1.9.13 → v1.9.19). Headline: first-class support for the new File object type (v1.9.17), introduced by KB Sync Engine v1.5.18 to carry arbitrary binary attachments as a .File.gxSource + a sibling .File.gxFile (a ZIP with a single entry). Analyzer, validator, visual editor, sync panel, syntax highlighter and icon theme all learned about it. v1.9.18/v1.9.19 close the fallout of that change (&File as a variable name, File headers containing English keywords) plus a family of SDT resolution bugs — module qualifier dropped when picking between sibling module versions, nested Item.Item levels, and fields declaring Collection = 'True' inline. The rest of the range is the grammar-gap audit's analyzer/validator false-positive fixes, plus sync-panel move/rename detection.

Plugins

v1.9.19 — 2026-07-28

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] For Each Transaction.SubLevel no longer reports Transaction '…' does not exist in the Knowledge Base — iterating a nested sublevel by its qualified path (For Each Invoice.InvoiceLine, Invoice.InvoiceLine.LineTax) was read as a module qualifier, so no Transaction ever matched. The check now tries decreasing prefixes of the name until it finds a real Transaction and treats the remaining segments as the sublevel path (the combined Module.Transaction.SubLevel also works).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] A File header whose name contains English words GeneXus reserves as keywords now parses — File Setup for Windows, File Notes on Migration, File Signed by CA failed with Mismatched input '<word>' at for / on / by. The fileName grammar rule now accepts any token sequence between the File keyword and the next structural delimiter ([ or {), since the Engine derives File names from the attachment's original filename.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] &SDT.Field.Item(N) as an argument resolves when the field declares its collection inline — v1.9.18's fix only detected collections declared as a nested level, missing the very common FieldName [ DataType = 'X, Module' Collection = 'True' ] shape, which kept reporting expects 'ModuleName.TypeName' but got 'sdt'. .Item(N), .Count, .Add(…), .CurrentItem(), .Clear, .Sort(…) are now resolved on both shapes.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Nested collection levels that reuse the same CollectionItemName navigate correctly — a variable typed 'SDTOrderReport.Item.Item, Sales' (an outer list of groups, each with an inner list of rows) reported every inner field as not a valid field or method of SDT '…Item.Item, …', because the second Item short-circuited at the outer level. The walk now tries to descend into a sub-level first and only stays put when nothing matches; fixed in both the type resolver and the chained-member walker.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] &Var.Field keeps the SDT's module when the DataType names a sublevel — DataType = 'OrderReport.Item.Detail, Sales.V3' had the , Sales.V3 stripped before the on-disk lookup, so a KB carrying V1/V2/V3 siblings validated against the alphabetically-first version and flagged fields added in V3 as missing.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] The general chain validator's type resolver also carries the module through — same symptom via a second path: it found the right file using the module, but rebuilt the resolved type as SDT:OrderReport.Item.Detail without it, so the next chain step fell back to V1. It now emits SDT:OrderReport.Item.Detail, Sales.V3.

v1.9.18 — 2026-07-27

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] A variable named &File no longer breaks the parser — v1.9.17 made File a recognised keyword, so &File = new() / &File.Source = … started failing with no viable alternative at input '&File'. File joins the object-type keywords already accepted as variable names (&sdt, &api, &webpanel, &procedure, …).
• ✦Fixed: [validator] .IsEmpty() (and other type-preserving methods) on an Attribute-typed variable whose Domain declares no DataType — iif(&AttrVar.IsEmpty(), '', '…') was flagged as expects type 'Boolean' but got 'attribute:xxx'. A Domain file with no DataType line now defaults to Numeric(4.0), matching the GeneXus IDE, so the chain resolves through to the base type and the method returns its real type.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Fields whose name starts with SDT are no longer dropped when parsing an SDT structure — SDTSignatureParameters, SDTOptions, SDTFilterParams were swallowed by a startsWith('SDT') filter meant only for the root header, so every access to them was reported as an invalid field/level. The filter now requires the header pattern (SDT with a trailing space).
• ✦Fixed: [validator] &SDT.Level.Collection.Item(N) as an argument no longer reports expects 'ModuleName.TypeName' but got 'sdt' — collection-only methods (.Item(N), .Count, .CurrentItem(), .Add(…)) on a collection level were normalised to a generic 'sdt' and looked up in the SDT catalog instead of the collection catalog, falling through to an "unknown method" fallback. The parameter validator now checks the collection catalog first, mirroring what the chained-member validator already did.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Parameter-count validation on unqualified Procedure/DataProvider calls picks the closest homonym — with two objects sharing a simple name in different modules, the resolver arbitrarily took the first one found while walking the filesystem and could report Expected N parameters but got M on a legitimate call. Unqualified calls now prefer the candidate whose path shares the longest common prefix with the caller (the usual "module == folder" convention); qualified Module.Object calls are unchanged.

v1.9.17 — 2026-07-25

• ✦Added: [analyzer] File is now a first-class GeneXus object type — a .File.gxSource (File commons-codec-1_4_jar [ FileName = 'commons-codec-1.4.jar' … ]) is parsed/validated like Procedure/Transaction/Table; before, File was flagged as an unknown keyword on line 1. The header also accepts dashes and spaces in the name (File Open Sans Bold), since the Engine derives it from the attachment's original filename; the body braces { } are optional.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Dedicated binary editor for .File.gxFile — instead of a corrupted text buffer, it shows the attached file name, size and MIME type, with Replace attachment… (rewrites the attachment in place, keeping the single-entry invariant) and Download / Open (extracts to temp and hands off to the OS default app). Opening it auto-populates GX Properties from the sibling .File.gxSource.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Replacing the attachment keeps the .File.gxSource in sync — File Name / File Extension are updated to match the new binary, so metadata never disagrees with the attachment; applied as a normal undoable edit that shows in the Sync panel.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] GX Properties knows the File object — the full set of 13 confirmed properties (Name, Description, File Name, File Extension, Extract Zip, plus per-generator Extract for X Generator / X Extract Folder for Java, .NET Framework, .NET, iOS, Android), each with the label/type/default GeneXus shows; "New Object" creates a valid empty File.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] File in the "New Object" dialog with its own icon; .gxFile siblings are now duplicated on Save Object As… alongside the .gxSource (like .gxForm/.gxLayout/.gxChilds).
• ✦Added: [sync-status] .gxFile binaries tracked as a sibling of .File.gxSource — edits from any source (visual editor, external tool, git) are recorded as an external change of the File object, same as .gxForm/.gxLayout; merge-conflict detection is bypassed for the binary.
• ✦Fixed: [core] Syntax highlighting recognises File, Table, ExternalObject, StructuredDataType and API object declarations on line 1 — their header used to render as plain text; the keyword, object name and inline properties now get their colours (including File names with dashes/spaces).
• ✦Added: [icons] Dedicated icon + FL badge for .File.gxSource/.File.gxFile so File objects are visually distinct in the KB tree.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] GX Properties hides properties newer than the KB's declared GeneXus version — GX18-only properties no longer show up (and produce invalid metadata) in KBs declared as GX17/GX16; the version in kb-config.json is honoured.

v1.9.16 — 2026-07-24

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] order(<attributes>) in a WebPanel/WorkPanel #Rules section is accepted — order(CustomerId); / order(CustomerName, CustomerId); no longer reported as an invalid keyword; highest-coverage fix of the release (659 objects across 25 KBs failed at their first rule).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Case, Order, Table accepted as property keys inside [ … ] (e.g. [ DataType = 'Numeric(4.0)' Case = 'idCHARCASE_NONE' ] on a Table column or #Variables entry).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Delete, Error, Event, To accepted as method/member names in an ExternalObject #Methods — external platforms often expose methods whose name is a GeneXus keyword.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] WebComponent/WebMasterPage accepted on the LHS of an assignment (&sdt.WebComponent = &link).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Method calls whose name is a keyword on a user control now parse — Toastr1.Msg(ToastrType.Error, "text", 'Error') inside an event; the parser previously accepted only a handful of keywords after a dot.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Collection methods (Add, Item, Count, Clear, …) on a nested SDT level resolved via CollectionItemName — &SDTDetalleItem.RetencionPercepcion.Add(&item) no longer falsely flagged; the walk now matches levels by CollectionItemName, not only by name.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Chained-member validator keeps the module qualifier — for an SDT that lives in several sibling modules (ConectorDGI.V136/V137/V138), the walk no longer drops the module part and pick the alphabetically-first version; a field added in a later version is validated against the version the variable actually declares.

v1.9.15 — 2026-07-22

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] WebComponent/WebMasterPage recognised at the file header — a .WebComponent.gxSource / .WebMasterPage.gxSource no longer errors on line 1; both are now first-class object types with the same section grammar as WebPanel.
• ✦Fixed: [validator] &MailMessage.Clear() no longer flagged — the MailMessage catalog was missing Clear().

v1.9.14 — 2026-07-21

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Assignments to a variable property accept keywords as the member name — &sdt.End = 1 (and Attribute.member / Control.member in #Rules) now parse, matching what method-call forms already allowed; the semantic analyzer still checks the member exists.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Variables named sdt, webpanel, procedure, dataprovider, dataselector accepted — &sdt etc. no longer error; same treatment as &do/&new/&api.

v1.9.13 — 2026-07-15

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Move/rename detected as a single renamed change instead of a deleted + modified pair — the panel matches the qualifiedName of the deleted and created files in the same reconciliation cycle and writes one entry with the new relativePath + oldRelativePath; cards show a "Renamed from <old path>" hint. (Requires an Engine update to consume the renamed type.)
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] "Externalization blocked — last import failed" banner only on entries whose own status is error — Imported/Skipped/Pending entries no longer carry the stale banner.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] API mapping targets can be fully qualified (Query(in:&A, out:&B) => API.BatchRecord.WSFoo(&A, &B);).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Att: prefix in expressions no longer errors (&x = Att:SomeAttr, common in generated DataProviders).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] End usable as a field name in DataProvider output mappings and item declarations (End = FooEnd, End { … }).
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] MB <expr> and Eject print statements recognised in report-style Procedures.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt from plugins v1.9.19 with build-bundle.py --compile: 750 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON, 2.3 MB (was 732 / 9 / 39 / 2.2 MB at v1.9.12). Per extension: analyzer 248 (parser lexer + parser regenerated for the File grammar), visual-editor 187, language-server 186, sync-status 66, validator 43, controller 41, core 39. v1.9.18/v1.9.19 changed file contents only (analyzer, validator, core-lib, regenerated parser) — no new modules, so the counts are unchanged since v1.9.17.
• ✦v1.9.18/v1.9.19 needed no packaging work: upstream touched no package.json, no syntaxes/*.tmLanguage.json, no shared/*.json and added no runtime dependency, so VSIX skeletons, manual VSIX declaratives and kbbridge/shared/ are all still in sync (verified by byte comparison + the drift smoke tests).
• ✦Added: adm-zip bundled as a new visual-editor third-party dependency — FileBinaryEditorProvider reads/writes the single-entry ZIP behind a .gxFile. adm-zip@0.5.18 is pure CJS with zero runtime deps, so it is copied as-is (like xslt-processor); added to build-bundle.py's visual-editor third_party. Without this the File binary editor would fail at runtime with Cannot find module 'adm-zip'.
• ✦Shared configs synced (core-lib/shared/*.json → kbbridge/shared/): gx-methods-config.json and gx-properties-config.json — the latter grew 80 KB → 256 KB (File's 13 properties + version-gated GX18 properties). Disk-only, not smoke-tested.
• ✦VSIX skeletons: genexus-language-core and genexus-visual-editor package.json synced by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — new genexus.openLinkedBinaryFromActiveEditor command, .File.gxSource/.File.gxProperties associations, and the genexus.fileBinaryEditor custom editor for **/*.gxFile.
• ✦Manual VSIX declaratives (not covered by skeleton sync): updated genexus.tmLanguage.json grammar (File/Table/ExternalObject/SDT/API line-1 highlighting) in the language-core VSIX; updated icon-theme.json + new file.svg in the icons VSIX.
• ✦Upstream plugin restructure: genexus-ast is now out/-only — the stale root-level compiled duplicates that caused the WebMasterPage-missing-from-ObjectType type-resolution bug were removed. Our pipeline already compiles to out/, so no change was needed.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — proprietary JS/JSON changed across analyzer, validator, core, visual-editor (new FileBinaryEditorProvider + bundled adm-zip) and sync-status, plus the large gx-properties-config.json. Re-uploaded after folding in plugins v1.9.18/v1.9.19: the analyzer, validator, language-server and core-lib copies inside the ZIP all changed again.

1.8.3 — 2026-07-12

Plugins v1.9.12 | VS Code 1.109.4

PATCH bump — plugin sync v1.9.11 + v1.9.12 (plus a late v1.9.10 analyzer bullet that landed after our v1.8.2). Analyzer: keyword-named variables (&msg, &for, &if, …) and in-body #[dynamic] API objects now parse. Visual editor gains a set of Pattern-Instance enhancements — an external-change diff overlay, per-property change hints, a Ctrl+F Find bar, header alignment/pinning, and a <code> CDATA-indentation fix. Feature-rich for a PATCH; could be argued as MINOR (1.9.0) — flag if you'd prefer that.

Plugins

v1.9.12 — 2026-07-12

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] Variables named after a control-flow keyword now parse — &msg, &for, &if, &sub, &case, &when, &while were reported as syntax errors even though real KBs use them everywhere (&msg alone accounts for hundreds of failing WebPanels/WebComponents in the grammar-gap audit). They now parse cleanly, matching &do/&new/&call/&exit.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] API objects with an in-body #[dynamic] marker now parse — the marker was accepted at the top of Procedure/Transaction/WebPanel/Panel/DataProvider/Test objects but not inside API TestX { ... }. All 67 API objects in the audited KBs errored on this single omission; now handled like every other object type.

v1.9.11 — 2026-07-06

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] External-change diff overlay in the Pattern Instance editor — when a .gxPattern changes on disk while open (Claude Code, git pull, editing as text), affected nodes get a coloured background + a git-decoration bar (green = added, amber = modified) and a sticky banner (External change: N added, M modified, K removed) with a "Clear diff" button. Removed nodes are listed in a popover. Large replacements (git checkout, mass regen) show a single banner linking to the built-in file diff instead of marking every node.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] GX Properties panel shows which properties changed on a modified node — each changed property row gets the diff colour and a "was: <old value>" hint; properties on a fully-new node use the green "added" variant. Edits from the panel itself don't mark anything — only changes that arrived from outside.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Find bar (Ctrl+F) inside the Pattern Instance editor — a VS Code-styled Find widget matching (case-insensitive) node captions, tags, XML attribute values and text content. Enter/F3 next, Shift+Enter/Shift+F3 previous, Esc closes; current match in gold, others in light yellow, ancestors auto-expanded. Also a KBBridge: Search in Pattern Instance palette command.
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Pattern Instance header aligned with the Form/Layout editors — object name + pattern type now use the same weight/size, with the type in a compact badge; the right button becomes a low-key "XML" button (like the Layout editor) instead of the heavier full-colour "Open as Text".
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Pattern Instance header pinned while scrolling — the whole header stack (name + badge, external-change banner, Find bar) anchors to the top, matching the Form editor.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Form editor header stays pinned while scrolling — the "Form is dynamic…" banner's own position: sticky clashed with the header wrapper and hid it; the block is now anchored as one unit.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] <code> node side-editor preserves original CDATA indentation — the reader stripped one leading tab per line inside <![CDATA[…]]> and the writer re-added it; on disk it cancelled out, but the intermediate .gxCode shown was flattened to column 0 (losing For Each … EndFor nesting). Reader/writer now leave CDATA lines untouched; disk bytes stay identical to what GeneXus emits.

v1.9.10 — 2026-07-02 (addendum — landed after KBEditor v1.8.2)

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] No more false no viable alternative at input '('… errors on code concatenating single-quoted string literals with + — expressions like &Scripts.Add('GridSelectionFix("Grid1","' + StrReplace(Grid1.InternalName, "GRID1", "") + '");') were merged into one giant string: the relaxed rule added for Formula/regex properties was also matching inside event bodies. It now applies only inside a property block ([ … ]); in event code, .Rules, #Events and elsewhere, 'X' + 'Y' is again two strings joined by +. (Appended to the plugin's v1.9.10 entry after our v1.8.2 shipped, so it reaches users here.)

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.9.12 code. Changed extensions: genexus-language-analyzer (parser lexer + parser regenerated) and genexus-visual-editor (167 → 168 files: new XmlTreeDiff; external-change diff, Find bar, header changes, CDATA fix + 3 restyled webview CSS). Total: 732 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB (was 731 JS).
• ✦VSIX skeleton: genexus-visual-editor package.json synced by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — new KBBridge: Search in Pattern Instance command + Ctrl+F keybinding.
• ✦Webview CSS (form-editor / properties-panel / tree-editor styles.css) ships via the bundle, not the VSIX: the loader writes /webview/ + .css files to disk at runtime, so the rebuild is sufficient (no manual VSIX CSS edit needed — unlike declarative grammars).

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — proprietary JS/CSS changed (analyzer + visual-editor recompiled, +1 file).

1.8.2 — 2026-07-02

Plugins v1.9.10 | VS Code 1.109.4

PATCH bump — a single analyzer fix, follow-up to the v1.9.9 multi-line-string lexer change. An edge case merged two consecutive simple property values into one string spanning many lines, hiding ] / #End / #Variables markers and producing false Mismatched input '#End' expecting '{' errors. Now fixed with no regression to the v1.9.9 formula/regex fixes. Parser-only change → bundle rebuilt; no VSIX, shared-config, or grammar changes.

Plugins

v1.9.10 — 2026-07-02

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] No more false Mismatched input '#End' expecting '{' errors on a Procedure/Transaction with several simple properties in the same #Variables block — after the v1.9.9 tightening of multi-line string recognition, a lexer edge case cross-ate the token stream: two simple values like DataType = 'MaxStr' followed a few lines later by DataType = 'Attribute:XYZ' were merged into a single string spanning dozens of lines, so ], #End, #Variables and other structural markers between them vanished from the parser's view and surfaced later as unexpected tokens. Two simple '...' values on separate lines are again lexed as two independent strings; the v1.9.9 regex-[…]-class and formula-''/'@' fixes stay intact (no regression).

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.9.10 parser (genexus-parser lexer regenerated → analyzer). No change in shape: 731 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB — only the compiled lexer content differs. No VSIX skeleton, shared-config, or grammar (tmLanguage) changes this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — proprietary JS changed (analyzer/parser recompiled).

1.8.1 — 2026-07-02

Plugins v1.9.9 | VS Code 1.109.4

PATCH bump — incremental plugin sync (v1.9.6 → v1.9.9). Mostly false-positive eliminations in the analyzer/validator and a syntax-colouring fix for properties whose values contain single quotes (GeneXus Formula / RegularExpression), plus two visual-editor niceties: per-node icons on pattern-instance trees (with a companion-extension icon fallback) and "Save Object As…" from .gxLayout / .gxForm. No new KB Sync Engine requirement.

Plugins

v1.9.9 — 2026-07-01

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Pattern-instance tree nodes now render a per-node icon — every node of a .gxPattern structure tree (levels, attributes, grids, orders, filters, conditions, tabs, actions, parameters, …) gets an icon instead of a bare label. Resolution order: caption-supplied icon → icon named by the pattern schema (when the file exists next to the pattern) → icon provided by the pattern's companion editor extension → built-in glyph fallback. The companion-extension path lets patterns whose icons live inside a .NET assembly (e.g. GeneXus Work With) ship those images with their own extension as embedded resources, so the real icons render without a GeneXus install on the machine.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] No more false extraneous input '@' expecting {…} errors on Formula = '...' properties whose expression contains single-quoted string literals — '' inside the value is now treated as two literal delimiters (an empty string) rather than an escaped quote. A multi-line property value closes only when a ' is followed by a structural delimiter (,, ], end of line); internal quotes are part of the expression. Simple values like DataType = 'Character(100)' are unaffected.
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] No more false extraneous input '\', '+', ')' errors on RegularExpression = '...' properties whose regex contains a […] character class with a ' inside (e.g. [-+.']) — the analyzer now tracks balanced […] pairs while reading a multi-line string, so a ] that closes a class opened inside the value counts as content, and only a truly outer ] ends the value.
• ✦Fixed: [core] Syntax colouring no longer bleeds past an internal ' in Formula / RegularExpression values — property values in the canonical multi-line [ … ] form close only when a ' is followed by a comma, end of line, or the block's closing ]; regex character classes like [-+.'] are consumed atomically. Formulae with '' empty-string sentinels or '@'-style literals now stay coloured as a single string from opening to closing quote.

v1.9.8 — 2026-06-30

• ✦Fixed: [validator] No more false 'CurrentItem' is not a valid field or method of SDT '<SDT>' errors when the variable's own Collection property is True — the validator now recognises collection members (CurrentItem, Count, Item(N) without parentheses) from the variable-level Collection flag, not only when the SDT itself is declared as a collection, and types the chain after CurrentItem / Item(N) as the item type so further field access validates correctly.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] "Save Object As…" is now available from a .gxLayout file and works from .gxForm when opened in its visual editor — reachable from the explorer and editor-tab context menus for layouts and from the command palette while a form or layout is active. Companion files (.gxForm, .gxLayout, .gxPattern, .gxChilds) next to the source are detected and copied under the new object name, and the new source's first line is updated.

v1.9.7 — 2026-06-28

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Code editor for pattern-instance properties stored as XML attributes (Action Previous/Post Code, Previous Code, Condition, Error Message on .gxPattern instances) now shows the actual source instead of XML-encoded entities — the full named and numeric (decimal + hex) entity set is decoded on read, so the code looks identical to GeneXus. On save, line breaks and tabs are re-encoded as numeric entities so the formatting round-trips to disk exactly as GeneXus emits it.

v1.9.6 — 2026-06-27

• ✦Fixed: [validator] No more false Parameter '&Var.Field' expects type 'Numeric' but got 'SDT:<…>' warnings when the variable is typed as the item of a collection SDT level (e.g. DataType = 'SDTCFEInterno.ReferenciaItem, eFactura.Definiciones') and a field of that item is passed to a function like Abs(...) — the parameter type resolver now falls back to matching by collectionItemName when no level matches by name, so the field of an item is correctly typed and the call type-checks.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.9.9 plugin code. Only genexus-visual-editor changed shape: 118 → 119 JS (+1 — the new GenexusIconFallback; SaveAsHandler modified in place). All other extensions unchanged. Total bundle: 731 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB (was 730 JS).
• ✦VSIX skeleton: genexus-visual-editor package.json drift auto-synced by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — the "Save Object As…" menu now enables on .gxLayout (added to the when clause for both the explorer and editor-tab context menus).
• ✦VSIX skeleton: genexus-language-core syntaxes/genexus.tmLanguage.json updated for the v1.9.9 syntax-colouring fix. Grammars are declarative and ship on disk in the VSIX (not the encrypted bundle), and the sync tool only covers package.json, so the grammar was refreshed manually.
• ✦Shared configs refreshed: kbbridge/shared/{gx-properties,gx-methods,gx-keywords,gx-functions}-config.json re-synced from plugin source. These are copied to disk by the embed script for method lookup and property/keyword/function config. They had drifted since v1.6.2 — most notably gx-methods-config.json was +44 KB behind source — so this also brings method metadata current.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — proprietary JS changed (visual-editor recompiled; +1 file).

1.8.0 — 2026-06-19

Plugins v1.9.5 | VS Code 1.109.4

MINOR bump — plugin team shipped the Build Pipeline UI, a major new feature. Right-click any .gxSource or .gxPattern → Specify / Specify + Generate / Build (compile) / Build Called (compile) — runs through the KB Sync Engine (v1.5.6+). New "Builds" and "Navigations" tabs in the Sync panel. Errors published as native VS Code diagnostics in the Problems panel. Environment picker, automatic-build tracking, Build All for whole-KB compiles. 6 plugin versions consolidated (v1.9.0 → v1.9.5), 19 entries — heavy iteration after the initial v1.9.0 ship.

Plugins

v1.9.5 — 2026-06-18 (KB Sync Engine v1.5.6+)

• ✦Added: [sync-status] "Build Called (compile)" command — compiles selected objects + their entire call tree (transitive). Plain Build (compile) now builds only the requested set; "Build Called" is the explicit opt-in to closure (IDE "with references"). Effective on GeneXus 17/18.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Expand all details / Collapse all details in panel context menu — applies to My Sources and Builds tabs. State remembered per batch in Builds across refreshes.
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] Build batches start collapsed by default — even when finished with errors. Reduces clutter; expand the ones you care about or use Expand all.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Clicking a pattern-generated object (Work With child Web Component, etc.) in the Builds tab now opens its source — they live in hidden .<instance>.<pattern>.gxPattern.Childs folders that VS Code's file search skips. Resolver now falls back to async directory scan (cached after first hit).
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Error messages with section names jump to correct line — section headers are externalized with suffixes (#Events [dynamic]); mapper now recognizes the suffix instead of falling back to body counting.

v1.9.4 — 2026-06-17 (KB Sync Engine v1.5.5+)

• ✦Added: [sync-status] "Force code generation on build" setting (off by default) — when enabled, Specify+Generate / Build asks the Engine to regenerate code even if up-to-date. Useful right after internalizing changes.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Atomic writes of sync files — extension's pending-changes file and request files now write to a temp file in the same folder, then atomic rename. Eliminates intermittent Engine warnings Could not read changes file ... Unexpected end when deserializing array.

v1.9.3 — 2026-06-16

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Companion .gxForm/.gxLayout files written by a KBBridge export no longer show as false "pending" — filter now matches by object identity (qualified name), not exact file path.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Engine-owned status file no longer written by the extension — eliminates a 2-writers race. Orphan entries are matched by change id and ignored.

v1.9.2 — 2026-06-15 (KB Sync Engine v1.5.3+)

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Per-user automatic builds — the Engine attaches the username to its auto-build triggers; auto rows in the Builds tab are filtered to show only your own.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Discard failed internalization — when an import fails, the object shows "Externalization blocked" in My Sources with a one-click ↺ action to discard local changes and re-export from the KB (with confirmation, destructive).
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Build All button (KB Sync Engine v1.5.4+) — on the Environment line of the Builds tab + palette command. Asks for confirmation, builds the whole KB. Resulting batch tagged "Build All".
• ✦Added: [sync-status] not-specified (NS) object state in the Builds tab for Domains / Attributes / SDTs / Tables / External Objects after import. Info message with one-click "Request Build All" action.
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] Per-object status badges shortened to aligned 2-letter codes (OK / WA / ER / SK / NS).
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Single Ctrl+S no longer produces 2 entries in My Sources via the directory reconciler — save's own writes (including delayed re-writes from visual/pattern editors) are absorbed into the snapshot; reconciler skips files VSCode saved recently.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Stale import errors no longer linger after a later successful import of the same object — moment a successful internalization is recorded, earlier error/failed entries for the same object are cleared.

v1.9.1 — 2026-06-14 (KB Sync Engine v1.5.2+)

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Environment selector — dropdown at the top of the Builds tab, preselected on the active environment; build requests stamped with the choice. Hidden if KB has a single environment. Each build row shows the environment it ran on.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Automatic builds tracked — Engine-triggered post-import builds appear in the Builds tab tagged "auto" with the same detail as manual builds. Errors also published as diagnostics.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Navigations tab — current navigation set per environment, filter by last N builds or "Full set", search by object name. Click opens the self-contained HTML navigation report.

v1.9.0 — 2026-06-12 (headline)

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Build Pipeline UI — Specify / Specify + Generate / Build (compile) commands on .gxSource from the explorer or editor tab (multi-selection supported). Requests are written to .kbbridge-sync/, picked up by the Sync Engine ≤10s, run in a child process so sync isn't interrupted.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] New "Builds" tab in the KBBridge Sync panel — live status (Sent ⏳ → Queued → Running → result), per-object badge (ok / warnings / errors / skipped), per-request "Output" section.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Native VS Code diagnostics — specification errors (with section/line/column) appear at the exact position in .gxSource; compilation errors as file-level diagnostics on line 1. Source: "GeneXus Build". Replaced on each new build, cleared when the object comes back clean, re-published after window reload.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Navigation viewer — each built object with a navigation dialog gets a "Navigation" link; opens a self-contained HTML with the IDE's Navigation Report look, with freshness banner.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Pattern instances — Specify/Generate/Build work on .gxPattern files too. Engine applies the pattern first, then builds parent + children (marked with "pattern" badge in the Builds tab).
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false Parameter '...' expects type 'Boolean' but got '<SDT name>' errors on call arguments that are comparisons or logical expressions (e.g. iif(&SDTCollection.Count > 0, ...)). Validator now recognizes top-level =, <>, <, >, <=, >=, like, and, or, not always produce Boolean regardless of operand types.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] "Track external changes" is ON by default again on fresh installs — a 2026-04-13 change to read exclusively from User scope was dropping the declared true default when the user had never touched the setting. Reader now honors the declared default.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.9.5 plugin code. Visible changes: sync-status grew from 53 → 66 files (+13 — the new src/build/, src/models/BuildTypes, ExportRequestWriter, NavigationViewer, etc.). Other extensions unchanged. Total bundle: 730 JS (was 717) / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB.
• ✦VSIX skeleton drift on genexus-sync-status (new commands + new view contributions for the Builds and Navigations tabs). Auto-fixed by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — exactly the workflow we built in v1.7.11.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — different shape (+13 files in sync-status).

Compatibility note

The Build Pipeline UI requires KB Sync Engine v1.5.6+ to function fully. With an older Engine: requests time out with "Waiting for Sync Engine" message, and the new controls (environment selector, auto builds, navigation tab, Build All, Build Called, Force code gen) stay hidden. Users running the new editor against an old Engine see a degraded but non-broken experience.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.21 — 2026-06-09

Plugins v1.8.29 | VS Code 1.109.4

Bug-fix sync. 3 entries in validator/analyzer: Set method recognized on Date and DateTime variables, &End accepted as a variable name (was rejected as keyword), and a new check that catches DataType = '<SDT>' references missing their module qualifier when the SDT only lives inside a module — with a clear suggested correction.

Plugins

v1.8.29 — 2026-06-08

• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false 'Set' is not a valid method for type 'date'/datetime warnings on &Var.Set(year, month, day) and Set(year, month, day, hour, minute, second) for DateTime. Set is the standard GeneXus way to assign a literal date/datetime to a variable in code — was missing from the catalog of both Date and DateTime built-in types.
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No false 'End' is not a valid keyword. Did you mean 'EndIf'? errors on &End used as a variable name. &End is a common loop exit flag in GeneXus code (Do While &End = False). Grammar now accepts End as a variable name when prefixed with &. Block-closing End (Header ... End) still works because the & prefix disambiguates.
• ✦Added: [language-validator] DataType = '<SDT>' without module now flagged when the SDT only exists inside a module. Previously bare SDT names were silently accepted (cache stored simple name), so an AI-generated DataType = 'SDTCFEParaEnsobrar' would pass even though the SDT lived in eFactura.TareasBatch. Validator now checks the KB object index: if no match lives at the root, it reports 'SDTCFEParaEnsobrar' is in module 'eFactura.TareasBatch'. Use 'SDTCFEParaEnsobrar, eFactura.TareasBatch' instead. SDTs at the KB root still accepted without module — no regression on existing patterns.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.29 plugin code: same shape as v1.7.20 (717 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB) but bytes differ — validator and analyzer compiled JS contains the new fixes.
• ✦0 VSIX drift.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — bytes differ from v1.7.20's bundle.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.20 — 2026-06-07

Plugins v1.8.28 | VS Code 1.109.4

Critical macOS fix (follow-up to v1.7.19). After installing the ad-hoc-signed v1.7.19, users on Apple Silicon got past the "is damaged" error and the app launched — but the license-manager then failed with KBbridge could not load extensions — Native addon missing decryptBundle function — rebuild required. Root cause: the Rust napi-rs native addon (kbbridge-loader, used for AES-GCM bundle decryption and machine fingerprinting) was only ever built for Windows. The repo committed kbbridge-loader.win32-x64-msvc.node and the macOS/Linux workflows never built the equivalent for their platforms. Same bug exists on Linux but no Linux user reported yet. This release builds the native addon per-platform in CI and updates the require code to find any platform-specific .node.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [build] Per-platform native addon build in CI. Each workflow (kbbridge-windows.yml, kbbridge-linux.yml, kbbridge-macos.yml) now has a Setup Rust + Build native addon (kbbridge-loader) step that runs npm run build (i.e. napi build --platform --release) and copies the resulting kbbridge-loader.<platform>.node to kbbridge/license-manager/ so the embed step ships it with the install. File names produced:
  • ✦kbbridge-loader.win32-x64-msvc.node (Windows x64)
  • ✦kbbridge-loader.darwin-arm64.node (Mac Apple Silicon)
  • ✦kbbridge-loader.darwin-x64.node (Mac Intel)
  • ✦kbbridge-loader.linux-x64-gnu.node (Linux x64)
• ✦Fixed: [license-manager] requireNativeAddon() now finds any platform-specific .node, not just the Windows variant. Globs kbbridge-loader.*.node in the extension dir and tries each. Previously hard-coded to kbbridge-loader.win32-x64-msvc.node → returned null on every non-Windows platform → decryptBundle not callable → "rebuild required" crash.
• ✦Fixed: [license-manager] getMachineFingerprint() consolidated, uses the same requireNativeAddon() helper. On macOS/Linux the native addon's getMachineFingerprint() throws (Phase-1 marker: Windows-only) and the JS catch handler falls back to the software-only fingerprint (hostname + platform + arch + cpu model). The software fingerprint is stable per machine — different Macs produce different fingerprints.

Why this only manifested now

• ✦macOS users couldn't even launch the app pre-v1.7.19 (the "is damaged" error blocked them). So the missing-native-addon bug was hiding behind the Gatekeeper bug.
• ✦Linux is affected too. No Linux user reported because the customer base is mostly Windows. After this release, Linux works as well.
• ✦Windows was never affected because the committed .node matches process.platform exactly. The Windows workflow now also builds fresh in CI (was previously using the committed file) — keeps everything consistent and avoids drift between the Rust source and the shipped binary.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.
• ✦The new CI step can't be tested locally (cross-platform builds need each platform's runner). Risk is low: napi build is widely used and documented; if it fails on a runner we see the error in CI before the install ships.

Bundle / build

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.18 bundle (2.2 MB, plugins v1.8.28) is still current. No re-upload needed.

Manual workaround for users on v1.7.19 today

None — v1.7.19's macOS install is fundamentally non-functional on the license side. They need v1.7.20.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.19 — 2026-06-07

Plugins v1.8.28 | VS Code 1.109.4

macOS install fix. Users on Apple Silicon (arm64) Macs reported "KBEditor" is damaged and can't be opened on first launch. Cause: macOS on Apple Silicon requires every binary to carry at least an ad-hoc code signature; without ANY signature the OS rejects the binary as corrupt. Our CI never signed because we don't have an Apple Developer Program account ($99/yr). This release adds an ad-hoc signing step to the macOS build workflow that satisfies the mandatory-signing requirement without needing a real certificate.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [build/macos] Apple Silicon "is damaged" error on first launch. New Code-sign app (ad-hoc) step in .github/workflows/kbbridge-macos.yml runs codesign --force --deep --sign - on KBEditor.app between the post-build modifications and prepare_assets.sh. Applies to both arm64 and Intel builds (Intel didn't strictly need it but it's harmless and prevents future Gatekeeper tightening).

What changes for users

| Mac type | Before v1.7.19 | After v1.7.19 | |---|---|---| | Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) | "is damaged and can't be opened" — could not launch | Opens after first-launch right-click → Open (standard "unidentified developer" flow) | | Intel | "unidentified developer" warning — could open via right-click | Same as before (no regression), now also ad-hoc signed |

What ad-hoc signing does NOT fix

• ✦Gatekeeper warnings remain — users still see "unidentified developer" on first launch and must right-click → Open. The proper fix for this is Apple Developer Program + notarization (~$99/yr); deferred.
• ✦Mark-of-the-web quarantine attribute — for users who still see "damaged" because their browser set com.apple.quarantine on the download:

  xattr -cr /Applications/KBEditor.app
  

  This clears the quarantine flag and lets the app open. We'll add this to the README's macOS install section.

Pre-existing signing path

The existing Developer-ID + notarization logic in prepare_assets.sh (gated by ${CERTIFICATE_OSX_P12_DATA}) is unchanged. If we ever set up an Apple Developer account, that path will activate and supersede the ad-hoc step automatically.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.
• ✦Workflow change cannot be tested locally (macOS-only command). The change is small, well-scoped, and following Apple's documented codesign - pattern — risk is low.

Bundle / build

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.18 bundle (2.2 MB, plugins v1.8.28) is still current. No re-upload needed.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.18 — 2026-06-04

Plugins v1.8.28 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugin sync: 6 versions consolidated (v1.8.23 → v1.8.28). Headline: incremental validator cache + Domain: prefix on DataType fully supported. The cache update means new Domains / Attributes / SDTs / External Objects created by AI assistants or by externalising a new module no longer require Developer: Reload Window — they're recognised on the next save. Plus 11 false-error fixes in validator/analyzer and 2 sync-status race conditions resolved.

Plugins

v1.8.28 — 2026-06-03

• ✦Added: [language-validator, visual-editor] Domain:<DomainName> prefix on DataType is now fully supported across the stack. In a KB with a Domain Boolean and the built-in Boolean, DataType = 'Domain:Boolean' now disambiguates: (1) data-type validator accepts it and checks the domain exists, (2) method validator strips the prefix and looks up the domain's base type so methods like .Trim() on a Character-based domain resolve correctly, (3) GX Properties parses the prefix into the Domain reference field and only serialises it back when the domain name collides with a built-in. Module-qualified form (Domain:<Name>, <Module>) deferred.

v1.8.27 — 2026-06-02

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Modifications to an object that KBBridge already exported in the same day are now correctly detected. The export-write filter previously rejected ANY future modification of the file for 24 h. Now it compares against the export's actual timestamp with a 5-second tolerance — anything later registers for sync.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] No false "pending" entries for objects arriving only via KBBridge export, even when KBBridge runs on a separate server and the files reach the local workspace via git pull (or other delayed transport). The filter now uses max(entry timestamp, local mtime of kbbridge-*-exports.json) with a 5-minute window — handles both local-KBBridge and server-KBBridge transparently.

v1.8.26 — 2026-06-01

• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false Parameter '&Mode' expects type 'Numeric(4.0)' but got 'Character(3)' warnings on Call(&Mode, ...) invocations when the called Procedure/WebPanel uses built-in variables (&Mode, &Pgmname, &Today) as parm() parameters without declaring them in #Variables. Parameter parser now consults the built-in catalog.
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] &RestCode recognised in Procedures exposed as REST WebServices (previously only known inside API objects). Type also corrected to Numeric(3.0) to match HTTP status code standard.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] No false '<TypeName>, <Module>' is not a valid data type warnings on new types created by AI assistants or external editing. Sync panel now consumes both kbbridge-*-exports.json AND external-<user>-changes.json with the same incremental policy — warnings clear on next save without Reload Window.
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false 'AddItem' is not a valid method for type 'numeric' warnings on &Variable.AddItem(...) calls when the variable is a Combo Box / Dynamic Combo Box / Radio Button / List Box. Method validator now reads ControlType from the sibling .gxForm on BOTH property-access AND method-call branches (previously only property branch did this).
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator, sync-status] A Domain / Attribute / SDT / External Object created in the workspace is recognised immediately, without Developer: Reload Window. Three issues fixed: (1) Sync and validator now use the same project-root convention (strip trailing /Knowledge Base), (2) cache key is case-insensitive on Windows and normalises drive letter to uppercase, (3) catalog update triggers re-validation of every open GeneXus document — stale warnings clear without manual edit.

v1.8.25 — 2026-05-31

• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false Variable '&Mode' is not declared in #Variables section warnings on WebPanels, Panels (Smart Device), WebComponents and WebMasterPages. &Mode is a built-in Character(3) with values INS/UPD/DLT/DSP — previously only recognised for Transactions.
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No false Mismatched input '.' expecting {')', ','} errors on call(Module.SubModule.ObjectName). Qualified module paths now accepted by the parser.
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Pattern Editor now renders the full tree of a .gxPattern instance even when its events contain { / } on their own line inside <![CDATA[]]> sections. The brace counter now ignores braces inside CDATA (tracked across line boundaries).
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No false no viable alternative at input '()' on Event &Variable.IsValid() headers. Both qualified-name (Grid.Load()) and variable-method (&Var.IsValid()) event headers now accept trailing parentheses.
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false 'IsValid' is not a valid method for type 'X' warnings on Event &Variable.IsValid() headers. Validator now skips the entire header line of Event ... declarations — the identifier after Event is identity, not executable code.
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false 'IsEmpty' is not a valid field or level of SDT '<SDT.Path>' warnings on chains like &MySDT.Collection.Count.IsEmpty(). Chain resolver now advances the tracked type to the property's return type on field-style access too (previously only method-style).
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false expects type 'Character' but got '<domain-name>' warnings on call arguments like Msg(&MySDT.Level.Field.ToString(), Status) where the SDT field uses a custom domain. Parameter type resolver now resolves the field's declared type to its underlying base type before looking up the next method in the chain.

v1.8.24 — 2026-05-25

• ✦Fixed: [language-validator, sync-status] Installing a new external module (e.g. GeneXusCryptography) and externalising it while KBEditor is open no longer requires Developer: Reload Window before the new types are recognised. Validator picks up new Domains / Attributes / SDTs / External Objects incrementally as they appear on the KB Exports tab.
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] Declaring a missing variable in #Variables now clears the Variable '&X' is not declared warning IMMEDIATELY on every line that uses &X (not just the line you just edited). Same applies to type changes and deletions.

v1.8.23 — 2026-05-24

• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No false expects type 'Character' but got 'Numeric(4.0)' errors when a call argument is a string concatenation that starts with a built-in GeneXus variable (&Pgmname, &Today, &Now, etc.). Validator now reads the built-in's real type from the catalog instead of falling back to numeric default.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.28 plugin code: same shape as v1.7.17 (717 JS / 9 CSS / 39 JSON / 2.2 MB) but bytes differ — validator and sync-status compiled JS now contains the new fixes.
• ✦No VSIX drift detected (sync-vsix-skeletons.py reports 0 patched).
• ✦Core-lib restructure to out/-only that the plugin team pre-announced has NOT happened yet in v1.8.28 — our build pipeline remains compatible (we already read from out/).

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

Bundle

• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — bytes differ from v1.7.17's bundle even though shape is identical.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.17 — 2026-05-24

Plugins v1.8.22 | VS Code 1.109.4

Bug-fix sync. Single fix in sync-status: a forced externalization run from KBBridge Manager while KBEditor was closed would flood the Sync panel with thousands of fake "pending" entries on next open. Affects only users who externalize via the Manager with the editor not running — but for them it was very noisy. No new features, no UI changes.

Plugins

v1.8.22 — 2026-05-23

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Forced bulk export that completes while KB Editor is closed no longer floods the Sync panel with fake pending entries on next open — the startup getLastBulkExportStatus() check only acted on the exporting state. A bulk-export-end already on disk meant status: 'idle', the startup branch did nothing, changeTracker.bulkExportEndTime was never set, and the first window-focus reconcile compared the pre-externalization file snapshot against the new filesystem state → every externalized file registered as "pending". Fix: the startup check now has a second branch — when status === 'idle' but the reader returns an endTimestamp (meaning a bulk-export-end / sync-batch-end is the most recent marker on disk), the extension primes bulkExportEndTime with max(endTimestamp, fileMtime) (same effectiveEndTime policy as the live endBulkExportPause()). First reconcile then filters out every file with mtime <= effectiveEndTime and only reports genuine manual edits made after the externalization finished. UTC timestamps end-to-end (Manager writes ISO 8601 with Z, stat.mtimeMs is UTC, new Date(isoZ).getTime() parses as UTC) — timezone never enters the comparison.

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.22 plugin code: same shape as v1.7.16 (717 JS, 9 CSS, 39 JSON, 2.2 MB). The sync-status fix is ~13 lines in extension.ts; no other file changes.
• ✦No VSIX drift detected (sync-vsix-skeletons.py --dry-run shows 0 patched).
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — the bytes are different (contains the fix in sync-status' compiled JS).

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.16 — 2026-05-19

Plugins v1.8.21 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugin sync: 3 versions consolidated. Headline feature is the new .gxLayout visual editor for GeneXus report layouts (PrintBlocks, controls with paper-relative positioning, copy/cut/paste between bands). Also: Show Rows/Show Cells overlay in .gxForm, columnsStyle/rowsStyle properties exposed in GX Properties, and .gxLayout recognized by the Sync engine for internalization.

Plugins

v1.8.21 — 2026-05-19

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Copy / Cut / Paste of controls between PrintBlocks on .gxLayout — Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V plus right-click menu, multi-selection support. Deep snapshot in clipboard, fresh RPT_INTERNAL_NAME per pasted control (no collisions), RPT_X/RPT_WIDTH preserved, RPT_Y/RPT_HEIGHT clamped to destination band. Layouts marked dynamic="true" ignore paste (defense-in-depth).
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Right-click context menu on PrintBlock headers with band-level operations
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Multi-selection improvements on .gxLayout (shift-click, marquee, arrow-key move)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Red overflow ! indicator when a control extends past the paper's right edge
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] 9 fixes around .gxLayout rendering, drag/drop precision, band resize, etc.
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] .gxLayout save is now recognized by the Sync engine for internalization (matches the existing .gxSource / .gxForm handling).
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer], [language-core] minor parsing/recognition fixes

v1.8.20 — 2026-05-18

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] columnsStyle / rowsStyle properties in GX Properties for tables in .gxForm — granular per-column / per-row CSS class declaration. Visualisation on the canvas reflects the declared classes.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] 4 other table-related improvements (default cell widths, alignment, etc.)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] cleanup of property panel layout

v1.8.19 — 2026-05-17

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Show Rows / Show Cells overlay in .gxForm — toggle button on the canvas that overlays a grid showing the row/cell boundaries (with their internal RowName / controlName), so users can see the structural layout under the rendered preview. Independent toggles for rows and cells.
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] 7 additional gxLayout editor refinements (band selection, ruler, snap-to-grid, etc.)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Refactor of "Save Object As..." to a more robust implementation that better handles .gxLayout and shared scenarios (the previous one had edge cases on certain object types).

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.21 plugin code: 717 JS files (was 707), 9 CSS (was 7), 39 JSON (was 32). Bundle size 2.0 MB → 2.2 MB.
• ✦VSIX skeletons resynced for genexus-visual-editor and genexus-language-core (both had new contributions / activationEvents for the gxLayout editor). Caught by smoke test VSIX contributes in sync and auto-fixed by sync-vsix-skeletons.py — no manual work.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

Tests

• ✦24/24 smoke tests pass.
• ✦The drift-detection tests (added in v1.7.11) correctly caught the new contributions in visual-editor and language-core packages and the sync script fixed them in one run — exactly the workflow they were built for.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.15 — 2026-05-19

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

UX upgrade for the license status panel + small bug fix on recovery flow. The old Help → View License opened a 404 URL (https://KBbridge.com/license), and KBEditor: Show License Status was a minimal QuickPick. Both now open a single KBSync-style webview panel with logo, status/type/expires/key/name/email/company rows, and Buy License / Enter License Key buttons.

Platform

• ✦Added: [license-manager] License status webview panel (media/license-status.html) modeled after KBSync's License tab. Replaces the previous QuickPick. Renders Status (colored: green/orange/red), Type, Expires, Key (truncated for safety), Name, Email, Company, plus the 2 action buttons.
• ✦Added: New helper computeLicenseDisplay(data) + truncateLicenseKey() centralize the date/status logic so callers don't reimplement it.
• ✦Added: getWebviewContent() now accepts a extraTokens dict for runtime data interpolation, with HTML-escape on all non-passthrough fields (defense against < in user-typed name or company).
• ✦Added: VSCodium source patch patches/kbeditor-help-license-panel.patch — modifies OpenLicenseUrlAction.run() to detect command: URIs and dispatch them via ICommandService instead of through openerService.open() (which silently drops command: URIs because CommandOpener requires explicit allowCommands).
• ✦Changed: prepare_vscode.sh sets product.licenseUrl to "command:kbbridge.showLicenseStatus". Combined with the patch, Help → View License now opens the license panel instead of a 404 URL.
• ✦Fixed: [license-manager] Recovery flow was discarding the firstName/lastName/company fields the user typed in the registration form — only email was stored. The recovered license then showed "—" for those fields in the new panel. The Recover button now sends all 5 fields (name, last name, company, email, language); the handler stores them in SECRET_KEY_DATA alongside the recovered license key.

How the 3 entry points map to the panel

| Click | Result | |---|---| | Status bar item (the trial/expiry indicator at the bottom) | Opens the panel | | Command Palette → KBEditor: Show License Status | Opens the panel | | Menu bar → Help → View License | Opens the panel (via the new patch) |

When no license is stored (fresh install / debug-clear), the entry points still show the existing "No License" QuickPick — there's no data to display yet, so a panel would be empty.

Bundle / build

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB) is still current.
• ✦The next CI build of Step 1 will apply the new patch and regenerate workbench.desktop.main.js with consistent checksums.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.14 — 2026-05-12

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Follow-up to v1.7.13. The WASM fallback shipped — but search_docs still failed on the affected customer with Error: no available backend found. ERR: [cpu] Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find module '...ort-wasm-simd-threaded.mjs'. Root cause: ort.node.min.js defers loading its backend module (a .mjs file) until the first InferenceSession.create() call. v1.7.13 shipped only the .js and .wasm files — the .mjs wrappers that the bundle imports dynamically were never embedded. list_topics and lookup_method worked (no embeddings = no inference); search_docs blew up at first use. This release ships the missing .mjs files and adds a runtime smoke test that actually triggers the lazy import so this regression class can't slip through again.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [embed] Ship the 3 missing .mjs files under onnxruntime-web/dist/:
  • ✦ort-wasm-simd-threaded.mjs — WASM module wrapper, lazy-imported by ort.node.min.js at first InferenceSession.create()
  • ✦ort-wasm-simd-threaded.jsep.mjs — JSEP variant of the wrapper
  • ✦ort.node.min.mjs — ESM variant of the Node bundle (declared in package.json#exports.import) Combined size: ~90 KB. The fix is a 3-line additions in embed_extensions.sh.

Tests (regression coverage)

• ✦Updated: onnxruntime WASM fallback files in install — required-files list extended with the 3 .mjs files. Catches the case where embed_extensions.sh is rolled back or someone trims the file list.
• ✦Added: onnxruntime WASM backend actually initialises — new functional test that:
  1. ✦Directly loads onnxruntime-web/dist/ort.node.min.js
  2. ✦Points env.wasm.wasmPaths at the local dist/
  3. ✦Calls InferenceSession.create(new Uint8Array(8)) — intentionally invalid as a model, but the call still triggers the lazy WASM backend init.
  4. ✦If we see ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND / "no available backend" in the error → fail (a .mjs file is missing). If we see a model-parsing error → pass (backend initialised, model was just bogus). This is the test that would have caught v1.7.13's bug. The previous shim runtime test only checked the require returned a module — it never exercised the actual WASM init code path.
• ✦Confirmed by removing ort-wasm-simd-threaded.mjs and re-running: both file-presence test and runtime test fail with clear messages.
• ✦Total smoke tests: 23 → 24.

Bundle

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB) is still current.

What this fixes for the customer

Same WS2019 + VMware client from v1.7.13. After this release:

• ✦MCP arrives running on stdio ✅ (already worked in v1.7.13)
• ✦Shim picks WASM fallback ✅ (already worked in v1.7.13)
• ✦list_topics / lookup_method work ✅ (already worked in v1.7.13)
• ✦search_docs works ✅ (new — the lazy .mjs import resolves)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.13 — 2026-05-12

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Real fix for the MCP ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED problem. The v1.7.12 diagnostic logging let the customer share the exact error: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. on onnxruntime_binding.node. Root cause: Windows Server 2019 (Build 17763) + VMware guest. onnxruntime-node 1.21 requires either DirectML (dxcore.dll, only on Win 10 Build 19041+ / Server 2022) or AVX CPU instructions — VMware doesn't expose AVX to guests by default. Without either backend the native binding's DllMain returns FALSE and the MCP crashes before registering its tools. This release adds an automatic WASM fallback so the MCP works in those environments out of the box.

Platform

• ✦Added: [mcp-server] onnxruntime-node → onnxruntime-web (WASM) automatic fallback. New shim at kbbridge/mcp-server/scripts/onnx-fallback-shim.js replaces onnxruntime-node/dist/index.js during embedding. On require('onnxruntime-node'), the shim:
  1. ✦Tries the renamed original (index-native.js) first → fast path on machines with AVX or DirectML.
  2. ✦On ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED / DLL-init / dlopen errors → falls back to onnxruntime-web/dist/ort.node.min.js with env.wasm.wasmPaths pointing at the shipped .wasm binaries and numThreads=1 for maximum compatibility.
  3. ✦On any other error → re-throws (so missing-file / syntax errors still surface instead of being masked by a slower fallback). Backend chosen is tagged on the module as __kbbridgeBackend and logged to stderr (captured by the v1.7.12 diag log).
• ✦Added: [embed] Ship the real onnxruntime-web package (not the empty stub) — Node-targeted JS bundle + 2 .wasm binaries, ~32 MB total. Browser/WebGL/WebGPU artifacts dropped (~60 MB saved). Installer grows ~32 MB.
• ✦Updated: [embed] embed_extensions.sh renames the original onnxruntime-node/dist/index.js to index-native.js and drops our shim in its place. Idempotent — re-running the embed doesn't re-rename if it already happened.

Tests (regression coverage)

Three new smoke tests in kbbridge/tools/smoke-test.py (now 23/23):

• ✦onnxruntime fallback shim source intact — checks the shim file contains its 6 critical markers (native-first require, ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED detection, WASM target path, wasm.wasmPaths + wasm.numThreads config, backend tag). Quote-style-agnostic so cosmetic refactors don't break it. Catches any future regression where the shim is partially deleted or "simplified".
• ✦onnxruntime WASM fallback files in install — verifies the local install at upstream-vscodium/ has the real onnxruntime-web package (rejects version=0.0.0 stub), the 3 required files (ort.node.min.js + 2 .wasm), and onnxruntime-node/dist/index-native.js exists (confirms embed renamed the original). SKIPs if the install dir isn't present (clean dev env).
• ✦onnxruntime shim require works at runtime — spawns node inside the install, does require('onnxruntime-node'), and asserts InferenceSession + Tensor + env.wasm are present. End-to-end functional test of the shim.

Docs

• ✦Updated kbbridge/docs/MCP_SERVER.md §4 (Embedding Model) with the full native/WASM fallback rationale, the shim's decision flow, and the 3 regression tests guarding it.

Bundle

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB) is still current.

Manual workaround (no longer needed after v1.7.13)

Before this release, customers in restricted environments (Server 2019 + VMware) had to manually:

1. ✦Extract onnxruntime-web@1.21.0 into C:\ort-web-extract\package\.
2. ✦Run a PowerShell script that copied the package over our stub and wrote a shim over onnxruntime-node/dist/index.js.
3. ✦Re-apply the script after every KBEditor update.

v1.7.13 does all of that automatically as part of the build — no per-machine setup needed.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.12 — 2026-05-12

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Diagnostic release for the MCP server. A user reported the MCP keeps failing on their machine, but VS Code 1.109.x's MCP API doesn't surface the server's stderr in any visible Output channel, so we couldn't see what's wrong. This release adds file-based logging from the MCP server itself plus two diagnostic commands so a user can grab the log with one click and send it back.

Platform

• ✦Added: [mcp-server] File-based diagnostic logging from the very first line of the MCP server. Writes to <globalStoragePath>/mcp-server.log (path passed via the new KBBRIDGE_MCP_LOG_FILE env var). Truncated on each run so the file always reflects the latest spawn. The file's presence/absence is itself a diagnostic signal: missing entirely → process never spawned; empty → died before first log; truncated mid-log → died at that point.
• ✦Added: [mcp-server] uncaughtException and unhandledRejection handlers logging full stack traces. Catches transformers / lancedb / onnxruntime crashes that would otherwise be silently swallowed by VS Code's child-process management.
• ✦Added: [license-manager] Command "KBEditor: Show MCP Server Log" — opens the diagnostic log in the editor, one click for the user to send it to support.
• ✦Added: [license-manager] Command "KBEditor: Test MCP Server (Diagnose)" — spawns the MCP server directly (bypassing VS Code's MCP API) and pipes its stdout/stderr to an Output channel for 5 seconds. Distinguishes "MCP can't even start" from "MCP starts but VS Code never spawns it".
• ✦Refactored: [mcp-server] Logging moved to new diag-log.ts module shared by setup-onnx.ts and index.ts. Each log line is timestamped and tagged with a category ([ONNX], [MCP]).

Plugins

• ✦Same as v1.7.11 (plugins v1.8.18).

Bundle

• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB) is still current.

How to use the new diagnostics

When a user reports the MCP isn't working:

1. ✦Ask them to run "KBEditor: Show MCP Server Log" from the Command Palette.
   • ✦If the log opens with [ONNX] / [MCP] lines → we see exactly where it crashed.
   • ✦If the warning "MCP server has not spawned yet" appears → VS Code never invoked the MCP. Ask them to trigger an AI agent search first, then re-run the command.
2. ✦If the log shows nothing useful, ask them to run "KBEditor: Test MCP Server (Diagnose)" — spawns the process manually with our own stderr capture. Confirms whether the MCP server can run at all on that machine.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.7.11 — 2026-05-12

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Hardening release on top of v1.7.10. Adds automated tests + a sync tool so the VSIX-skeleton-drift bug (which produced the Form Editor redirect loop) can't ship again unnoticed. Also re-syncs all 7 VSIX skeletons against the latest plugin source (the 5 we hadn't touched since April had devDependencies / scripts cruft we now strip).

Platform

• ✦Added: [tooling] kbbridge/tools/sync-vsix-skeletons.py — one-command resync of every kbbridge/vsix/*.vsix against its matching package.json in the plugin source. Strips devDependencies / scripts (build-time only), preserves the "KBEditor: " branded displayName prefix. Use --dry-run to preview changes; CI-friendly exit code (1 if any drift detected).
• ✦Added: [test] smoke-test.py now has 2 new tests that catch VSIX skeleton drift before commit:
  • ✦VSIX activationEvents match plugin source — was previously a silent "warn only" since v1.6.x; now fails if the plugin's source declares events the VSIX is missing.
  • ✦VSIX contributes in sync (customEditors/commands/views/menus) — new test that compares every customEditor viewType, command command, view id, and per-menu-category entry counts between VSIX and source. Reports each drift with a clear remediation hint.
• ✦Tests grew from 18 to 20.
• ✦All 7 VSIX skeletons resynced via the new tool (5 had unstripped devDependencies/scripts; 2 had been hand-patched in v1.7.10 without the displayName branding).
• ✦No bundle change — v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB) is still current.

How this prevents future drift

The combination is intentional:

• ✦smoke-test.py runs before every push (per the release checklist). Drift now blocks commits instead of being silently shipped.
• ✦sync-vsix-skeletons.py is the one-command fix when a smoke test fires (also runnable as a pre-flight before bumping versions).
• ✦The plugin team adding new commands / customEditors / views in their package.json will surface in our next smoke-test.py run, with a clear pointer to run the sync.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged from v1.7.6.

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1.7.10 — 2026-05-12

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Follow-up to v1.7.9. The visual-editor activated correctly but the Form Editor entered an infinite redirect loop when opening any .gxForm file. Cause: the VSIX skeletons (kbbridge/vsix/*.vsix) had not been re-built since the plugin team added new contributions to package.json — the visual-editor's VSIX skeleton was missing the genexus.formEditor customEditor declaration, 3 commands, 1 view, and several activationEvents. Similarly, genexus-language-core's VSIX was missing 6 commands and 2 menus (including "Find All References" / "Find Referenced" from v1.8.15). This release patches both stale VSIX skeletons by re-synchronising their package.json with the plugin source.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [vsix] genexus-visual-editor VSIX skeleton resynced with plugin source. Now declares the genexus.formEditor custom editor (for .gxForm files), the genexus.toolbox view, 3 additional commands (including genexus.openFileWithEditor), 2 menu contributions, and the onCustomEditor:genexus.formEditor activation event. Without these, .gxForm files were opening as text and the extension's auto-redirect handler entered an infinite loop trying to switch to a custom editor that VS Code didn't know about.
• ✦Fixed: [vsix] genexus-language-core VSIX skeleton resynced with plugin source. Now declares 6 additional commands and 2 menu contributions (notably the Find All References / Find Referenced entries from plugin v1.8.15 that never appeared in the right-click menu before).
• ✦No bundle change — the v1.7.9 bundle (2.0 MB with the esbuild htmlparser2 fix) is still current.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged from v1.7.6.

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1.7.9 — 2026-05-11

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Follow-up to v1.7.8. The previous release added htmlparser2 to the bundle but the v10+ release of that package ships as pure ESM ("type": "module"). Our bundle loader uses Module._compile() (CJS-only), so require('htmlparser2') from the visual-editor's compiled CJS code crashed with Unexpected module status 0. Cannot require() ES Module.... This release pre-bundles htmlparser2 + its 5 transitive ESM deps into a single CJS file via esbuild, sidestepping the ESM/CJS mismatch entirely.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [build] htmlparser2 is now pre-bundled with esbuild to a single CommonJS file with all 5 transitive deps inlined (domelementtype, domhandler, domutils, dom-serializer, entities). The 6 ESM packages no longer ship as separate entries — they're all rolled into node_modules/htmlparser2/index.js (~140 KB CJS) accompanied by a stripped package.json that omits "type": "module". The bundle loader resolves require('htmlparser2') cleanly as CJS.
• ✦Added: [build] build-bundle.py now supports an esbuild_bundles config field on each extension. Used for ESM third-party deps that can't be loaded via Module._compile. Run uses esbuild from the mcp-server's node_modules (already shipped in the repo).
• ✦Bundle: 2.1 MB → 2.0 MB (esbuild inlines deps efficiently; we drop ~38 separate files in favor of one 140 KB bundle).

Plugins

• ✦Same as v1.7.8 (plugins v1.8.18 with the dynamic .gxForm lock feature).

Bundle

• ✦Rebuilt: 2.0 MB.
• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — replaces the v1.7.8 bundle (which had the ESM htmlparser2 problem).

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged from v1.7.6.

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1.7.8 — 2026-05-11

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Critical platform fix. The visual-editor extension was crashing during bundle activation with Cannot find module 'xslt-processor', especially visible on system installs (C:\Program Files\KBbridge\). Root cause: the xslt-processor and htmlparser2 runtime dependencies (added in plugin v1.8.x for User Control XSL rendering) were never included in our extensions bundle — build-bundle.py declared "third_party": [] for the visual-editor. On user-writable installs the bug was also present but went unnoticed because nobody opened a .gxForm. Includes all features from v1.7.7.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [build] Visual-editor runtime third-party dependencies are now included in the bundle. Added xslt-processor, htmlparser2, and their 5 transitive runtime deps (domelementtype, domhandler, domutils, dom-serializer, entities) to third_party in kbbridge/tools/build-bundle.py. Bundle grew from 1.8 MB to 2.1 MB; visual-editor file count: 145 → 183.
• ✦Fixed: [license-manager] Require hook now resolves package.json#main from the in-memory sourceCache. Previously the hook only tried <base>.js and <base>/index.js before falling through to Node's normal resolver — which doesn't work on read-only system installs where files can't be written to disk. The 7 new third-party packages all declare main as "dist/index.js", so the simple lookup would miss them and Node's fallback would also fail (no files on disk). The hook now reads <base>/package.json from sourceCache, parses the main field, and resolves against sourceCache directly. Prevents the same class of bug in the future.

Plugins

• ✦Same as v1.7.7 (plugins v1.8.18 with the dynamic .gxForm lock feature).

Bundle

• ✦Rebuilt: 2.1 MB (was 1.8 MB).
• ✦Must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com — the v1.7.5 bundle on the server does NOT have the third-party deps and will continue to crash the visual-editor extension on clients.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged from v1.7.6 (the process.release.name patch is in place).

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1.7.7 — 2026-05-11

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugin code update: the upstream v1.8.18 entry was extended with a new feature for protecting dynamic .gxForm files (no version bump on the plugin side). Bundle rebuilt to incorporate it. Includes all Platform fixes from v1.7.6.

Plugins

v1.8.18 — additional feature (appended 2026-05-09)

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] .gxForm files marked as dynamic="true" in the root tag are now protected from manual edits with the same UX as [dynamic] sections of .gxSource — when KBBridge externalizes a form whose content is maintained by a pattern, it injects dynamic="true" on the form's root element (<BODY> for HTML layouts, <GxMultiForm> for MultiForm, <layouts> for Smart Device Panel). The visual editor now detects this attribute and locks the form:
  • ✦Canvas paints the selection outline in yellow (instead of the regular accent color)
  • ✦Banner at the top reads "Form is dynamic — content maintained by KBBridge" with an "Unlock Form" button
  • ✦GX Properties renders every input as read-only and shows the same banner
  • ✦GX Toolbox dims its items so they cannot be dragged in
  • ✦Any mutation attempt (drag, drop, right-click cut/paste/delete, keyboard shortcuts) is intercepted at two layers: webview shows a reduced context menu ("Unlock form to edit"); extension confirms with "This form is marked as [dynamic] and is maintained by KBBridge. Do you want to remove the dynamic tag and edit manually?" (Yes / No)
  • ✦Choosing "Yes" flips the attribute to dynamic="false" and re-renders all three panels editable
  • ✦Forms without dynamic="true" behave exactly as before — the lock is opt-in via the file content itself

Platform

• ✦All Platform fixes from v1.7.6 carry over: MCP server process.release.name patch (fixes Unsupported device: "cpu" crash on some Electron builds); Buy License URL now opens the correct page with the user's saved registration data pre-filled.
• ✦Bundle rebuilt with the new dynamic-form-lock plugin code: 707 JS files, 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged from v1.7.6 (the process.release.name fix is in place).

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1.7.6 — 2026-05-11

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform fix release. Two Platform bugs reported by users: (1) the MCP server crashed on some clients with Unsupported device: "cpu" because their Electron build reports process.release.name === 'electron' instead of 'node' under ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1, causing @huggingface/transformers to take the web/wasm branch (which used our empty onnxruntime-web stub); (2) the "Buy License" button from the expired-license dialog and the status bar quick pick opened https://kbbridge.com/pricing (a non-existent page) instead of https://kbbridge.com/buy-license-kbeditor?<params> with the user's saved registration data.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: [mcp-server] MCP server no longer fails with Unsupported device: "cpu" on Electron builds that report process.release.name === 'electron'. A new setup-onnx.ts module patches process.release.name to 'node' (with three fallback strategies: direct assignment, Object.defineProperty, replacing process.release) before @huggingface/transformers is loaded. This makes transformers take its complete Node branch — registering the cpu execution provider correctly. Diagnostic [ONNX] lines are written to stderr for future debugging.
• ✦Fixed: [license-manager] "Buy License" button (from the expired-license dialog and the status bar quick pick) now opens the correct URL https://kbbridge.com/buy-license-kbeditor?<params> with the user's saved registration data (firstName, lastName, company, email, language, fingerprint, version, platform, arch) pre-filled — same URL the Buy button on the registration panel uses. Previously it opened https://kbbridge.com/pricing (a page that does not exist on the site). The URL construction was extracted to a shared helper openBuyLicensePage(userData) plus openBuyLicensePageFromSecrets() for callers that don't have userData in hand. The dead PRICING_URL constant was removed.
• ✦No bundle change in this release — the v1.7.5 bundle (1.8 MB, plugins v1.8.18) is still current and does not need to be re-uploaded.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server has the onnxruntime backend fix described above. No change to the registration command (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1, same path as before).

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1.7.5 — 2026-05-08

Plugins v1.8.18 | VS Code 1.109.4

Bug-fix release consolidating 3 plugin versions (v1.8.16, v1.8.17, v1.8.18). Notable: pattern-instance saves no longer corrupt CDATA blocks / self-closing tags / XML declaration; .gxForm round-trips bit-perfect (empty git diff on no-op save); duplicate Pending entries on saves fixed (Windows path-casing race); several analyzer false errors resolved.

Plugins

v1.8.18 — 2026-05-07

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Adding a control directly into a Smart Device Panel table now generates the auto-wrapped row and cell with their required id GUIDs (the IDE was rejecting those rows/cells on re-import)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Empty attributes of .gxForm controls are now serialized as name="" instead of bare name (HTML5 minimization form is invalid XML and the IDE rejected the file on re-import)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Whitespace between <layouts> and <layout> (and other structural wrappers) is preserved on save — a no-op save now produces an empty git diff
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] Depuration of the changes file no longer removes entries still in pending state — the periodic cleanup (gxSync.changesMaxAgeDays / gxSync.changesMaxEntries) now consults external-<user>-status.json and keeps every entry whose status is pending or unset, regardless of age or count

v1.8.17 — 2026-05-06

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Saving a single GeneXus object no longer registers two Pending entries — caused by a Windows path-casing race (C:\Foo vs c:\foo) between the editor save event and the workspace filesystem watcher. Dedup is now case-insensitive on Windows with a 1.5 s window
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Saving a .gxPattern instance no longer rewrites large parts of the file — preserved across round-trips: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> header, self-closing tags (<variable />, <parameter /> etc.), <![CDATA[...]> blocks for code properties, literal ' in attribute values, line endings (CRLF/LF), and the multi-line [ ... ] properties block of PatternInstance. The serializer now reads the schema XML (PXWorkWithInstance.xml) per property to know whether to emit as Attribute, CDATA, or Element. A no-op save produces an empty git diff

v1.8.16 — 2026-05-05

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Group header caption no longer shown twice on the canvas — the duplicate stray TextBlock-like child render is suppressed; underlying <LEGEND> element is preserved
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No more false "missing '(' at '<Type>'" errors on New <SDTType>(...) or New <SDTType>.<Level>(...)
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No more false "Mismatched input 'Sub'" errors inside platform-specific blocks of #Events (e.g. [Web] { ... Sub 'Name' ... EndSub ... })
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] Stub <Name>(<params>) ... EndStub is now recognized as a valid procedural block in WebService Procedures
• ✦Added: [language-core] Outline view, Breadcrumbs and Go to Symbol in File (Ctrl+Shift+O) now list every Event, Sub and Stub of a .gxSource (with kind prefix and full signature, e.g. Event Grid1.Load, Sub 'CheckSecurityForActions', Stub EnviarCFE(in: &EnviarCFEIn, out: &EnviarCFEOut))
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No more false "is not a valid field or level of SDT" errors when accessing a sub-level of a collection item (e.g. &Item.<SubLevel>.<Field> where <Item> is the collection's CollectionItemName)

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.18 plugin code: 707 JS files, 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.7.4 — 2026-05-05

Plugins v1.8.15 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform fix. Eliminates a Node DEP0128 deprecation warning that surfaced in user logs (Invalid 'main' field in '...@kbbridge/genexus-language-core-lib/package.json' of 'out/index.js'). Functionality was unaffected because Node fell back to legacy resolution, but the warning will become a hard error in future Node versions.

Platform

• ✦Fixed: embed_extensions.sh was generating package.json files for the embedded @kbbridge/genexus-language-core-lib with "main": "out/index.js", but the bundle places the compiled JS at the root of that directory (no out/ subfolder). Changed to "main": "index.js". Also patched the existing local staging copies for consistency.
• ✦No bundle change in this release — bundle from v1.7.3 (1.8 MB, plugins v1.8.15) is still current.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.7.3 — 2026-05-05

Plugins v1.8.15 | VS Code 1.109.4

Security release. Both findings from our v1.7.2 deep code review (XSS in the Values editor, missing XML-escaping in packed properties) have been confirmed fixed by the plugin team. Also adds Free Style Grid support and Find All References / Find Referenced from the right-click menu.

Plugins

v1.8.15 — 2026-05-04

• ✦Security: [visual-editor] Values editor of Combo Box / Radio Button / List Box no longer renders pairs through unsafe HTML interpolation — values are now treated as plain text in every cell. Fixes the XSS finding from our v1.7.2 review (properties-panel.ts:3849-3852)
• ✦Security: [visual-editor] Editing a property of a control on Smart Device Panel / Abstract Layout no longer corrupts other properties when any contains <, > or & — the wrapper that stores grouped properties (PATTERN_ELEMENT_CUSTOM_PROPERTIES) now XML-escapes name/value individually. Fixes the XML-escaping finding from our v1.7.2 review (CustomPropertiesDecomposer.ts:163-167, 203-205)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Free Style Grid (<gxFreeStyle>) is a first-class control in HTML forms — renders correctly with green border and yellow tint, exposes 24 specific properties (CustomRender, AllowDrop / AllowDrag, RenderingMode, Border, Empty Grid Text, Paging, Allow Collapsing, Record / Page counters, etc.), insertable from the Toolbox, drops of any control on it are redirected to the inner <TD> automatically. Abstract / SDPanel forms not covered in this iteration
• ✦Added: [language-core] Find All References / Find Referenced from the right-click menu of any .gxSource / .gxAttribute / .gxDomain — both on the editor tab and on the file in the Explorer. Lists every file that mentions the object (Find All References) and every defining file of the objects this one uses (Find Referenced). Reuses the reference index built at startup — instantaneous after first build

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with v1.8.15 plugin code: 707 JS files, 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.7.2 — 2026-05-04

Plugins v1.8.14 | VS Code 1.109.4

Bug-fix release. Notable: a regression that rebuilt the reference index from scratch on every reload (causing several minutes of editor freeze on 10k-object KBs) is fixed. Several validator / analyzer false errors are also resolved.

Plugins

v1.8.14 — 2026-05-03

• ✦Fixed: [language-core] Reference index of a large Knowledge Base no longer rebuilds from scratch on every "Developer: Reload Window" — the persisted index was being rejected by a hardcoded version check. Several minutes of editor freeze gone on 10k-object KBs from the second reload onwards
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No more false "is not a valid data type" errors on DataType = 'Attribute:<AttrName>' when the referenced attribute lives in an external module
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No more false "Mismatched input '=' expecting '('" errors on <ControlName>.<Property> = <value> lines inside #Rules (e.g. EmisorId.Visible = False;)
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No more false "Udp call requires last parameter to be mode 'out' or 'inout'" errors on calls to a DataProvider — DataProviders declare their output via Output = '<Type>' / Collection, not via parm(). The parser now synthesizes a virtual out parameter for DP calls
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No more false "is not a valid method" errors on IsEmpty() / SetEmpty() / ToString() of variables typed by an enumerated domain
• ✦Fixed: [language-validator] No more false "Parameter requires a variable (mode: inout)" warnings on calls that pass <Control>.<Property> (or any dotted lvalue) as an out / inout argument
• ✦Fixed: [language-analyzer] No more false "Mismatched input '{' expecting {'.', '='}" errors on DataProvider blocks whose nested SDT level names are GeneXus keywords (e.g. Display, Group, Default, Domain, Attribute, Insert, Update, Delete)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] The Title property of a Grid Column is now shown at the top of GX Properties (next to Attribute), matching the GeneXus IDE order

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with updated plugin code: 707 JS files, 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.7.1 — 2026-05-03

Plugins v1.8.13 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugin code update: the upstream v1.8.13 entry was extended with 17 additional fixes and features (no version bump on the plugin side). Bundle rebuilt to incorporate them.

Plugins

v1.8.13 — additional fixes (appended 2026-05-03)

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] The Values property of a Combo Box / Radio Button / List Box now opens a visual editor with two columns (Name, Value), with add / remove / reorder, validations and serialization to the Name1:Value1,... format used in the ControlValues XML attribute
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Checked Value and Unchecked Value properties of a Check Box are now shown in GX Properties, written to ControlCheckValue / ControlUnCheckValue (HTML) or packed in PATTERN_ELEMENT_CUSTOM_PROPERTIES (Abstract / MultiForm / SDPanel)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Keyboard shortcuts in the Values editor — Alt+A add, Delete remove, Alt+↑ / Alt+↓ reorder, ↑ / ↓ select, Enter edit
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Radio Button now renders as a real radio control on the canvas even when values cannot be deduced from a domain or source code
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Combo Box, Radio Button and List Box now render their static ControlValues from the XML on the canvas (previously only enum-domain or &Var.Add(...) values were used)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] List Box now renders as a multi-line scrollable list (<select size>), distinguishable from Combo Box. Same applies to Dynamic List Box
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Combo Box on the canvas now shows the empty item declared by Add Empty Item / Empty Item Text
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drag from the GX Toolbox to the form canvas now works regardless of which tab is active (the activation message is broadcast to every open form-editor webview)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drag from the GX Toolbox no longer fails when the form-editor webview was suspended by VSCode — visible panels are explicitly woken up on drag start (panel.reveal with preserveFocus: true)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Dragging a row inside a nested table now reorders within that table instead of selecting the parent table — handler retries inside when before/after is rejected
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drop position of a drag inside a nested table now matches the visual indicator (the drop handler now applies the same retry logic as dragover)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The horizontal "drop here" line between rows is back when dragging a row by its handle — dragover/drop handlers retry before / after when the original inside is rejected
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reordering rows in HTML tables now respects the <TBODY> wrapper — canvas ascends through <TBODY> / <THEAD> / <TFOOT> when computing the effective parent, and row inserts targeting <TABLE> directly are redirected into its <TBODY>
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drop of a row inside a <TBODY> now actually completes the move — acceptsAsChild validator now treats <TBODY> / <THEAD> / <TFOOT> as equivalent to <TABLE> for child acceptance
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reordering Grid Columns now shows a vertical drop indicator between columns during the drag (instead of a horizontal one)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] HTML <DIV> containers no longer stretch to fill the available height and hide their next siblings — User Control regions still fill height, HTML <DIV> grows to fit content
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] "Delete Layout" confirmation dialog of a Smart Device Panel now shows the layout's readable name (e.g. Default, iPhone · Portrait) instead of its internal GUID

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with updated plugin code: 707 JS files across 7 extensions; bundle size 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.7.0 — 2026-05-02

Plugins v1.8.13 | VS Code 1.109.4

Major plugin update: introduces the Visual Form Editor for .gxForm files (WYSIWYG rendering, drag & drop, GX Properties panel, responsive layouts, multi-layout support for Smart Device Panels, User Control discovery and rendering). 14 plugin versions consolidated since the last KBEditor release.

Plugins

v1.8.13 — 2026-05-02

• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Control Name of a <table> in Abstract Layout / MultiForm / Smart Device Panel now shows the actual control name instead of the internal GUID
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Tables, rows, cells, sections, grids, tabs, tab pages, grid columns and groups inserted into Smart Device Panels now carry the id="<GUID>" attribute that the GeneXus IDE writes
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] The "Group" container in Abstract Layout / Smart Device Panel now serializes as <group> (was <section>)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Cleanup of legacy properties when changing Control Type to a different User Control is now near-instant (single-pass instead of O(n²))
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Cloning a layout via "Add Layout (Copy from existing)" no longer regenerates the id of internal regions of User Controls
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Smart Device Panel detection now uses the XML root tag (<layouts>) instead of the file path
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Output channel logs a warning when a Smart Device Panel is opened with structural nodes missing id="<GUID>"

v1.8.12 — 2026-05-01

• ✦Added: [language-core, visual-editor] One-click navigation between a .gxSource and its matching .gxForm (clickable link, title-bar icon, "Source" button in Form Editor)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Multi-Layout support for Smart Device Panels — tabs at the top of the canvas switch between layouts; each layout edited independently
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] "Add Layout" wizard with cascading variant selectors (Platform → Device Kind → Size → Version → Orientation) plus "Empty / Copy from existing"
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Adaptive overflow for the layout switcher — folded into a … button when toolbar width is insufficient
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Right-click "Delete Layout" on a layout tab (last layout cannot be deleted)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] "Text" button label now reflects the form's real format ("HTML" for Layout HTML, "XML" for Abstract / MultiForm)

v1.8.11 — 2026-04-30

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] User Controls can be inserted from the Toolbox in Abstract Layout and MultiForm forms (initial container regions of gxui.Layout, gxui.Panel etc. added automatically)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Responsive Sizes visual editor available from PXTools pattern instances (PXWorkWith, PXComposer, PXParameterRequest)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Breakpoint selector (XS / SM / MD / LG) now appears for every responsive form, even when no table has explicit responsive sizes yet
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Responsive Sizes editor never opens with empty data (fallback path removed; timeout extended to 10s)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Canvas stacks responsive cells mobile-first at XS even when the table has no responsiveSizes JSON
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Responsive Sizes modal closes automatically when the user selects a different control in the canvas
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] GX Properties clears when the active tab changes
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] .gxForm files reliably open with the visual Form Editor (extension auto-adds .gxForm and .gxPattern mappings on startup)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] User Controls with container regions render correctly in Abstract Layout and MultiForm forms
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] User Controls in Abstract Layout and MultiForm matched correctly even when the instance was renamed

v1.8.10 — 2026-04-29

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] User Controls can be inserted from the Toolbox in HTML Layout forms (drag or double-click)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Inserting a User Control container creates its initial regions automatically (parsed from the UC's XSL render)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Control Type dropdown of an Attribute / Variable now lists every external User Control with <IncludeInControlInfo>true</IncludeInControlInfo> (Chosen, CKEditor, Rating, RunJS, SDCalendar, etc.)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Properties of the chosen User Control are merged into the Attribute / Variable panel
• ✦Added: [language-core] Closing a tab opened from a .gxChilds re-opens the QuickPick automatically
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Support for sync-batch-start / sync-batch-end markers from the Sync Engine
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drop from Toolbox now actually inserts the control (replaced mousemove/mouseup with dragover/drop)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Smart Device Panels (*.Panel.gxSource) now show their object properties in GX Properties (alias-aware: Panel ↔ SDPanel)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Drops on top / bottom 25% of a UC region now succeed (always resolved to "inside")
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Generic containers expand to fill height with min-height 60px

v1.8.9 — 2026-04-28

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Object Picker modal for reference properties (Master Page, Web Component, Image, Theme, etc.) with Pattern and Type filters
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] WYSIWYG render for User Controls with design XSL (e.g. gxui.Layout with North/West/Center/East/South)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Hierarchical categories in GX Properties (Regions/North/North Title Bar, etc.)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Arrow keys navigate between siblings in horizontal layouts
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] UC properties declared with <CustomType>WebComponentReference</CustomType> etc. exposed as proper references with autocomplete
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Object Selector adds a Table filter when picking attributes
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reference values that contain a leading GUID are displayed without it
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Master Page references resolve in the panel (alias WebMasterPage → MasterPage)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Toolbox now uses the IDE's heuristic to filter User Controls (<IncludeInControlInfo> flag)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Drag from Toolbox to canvas inserts the control (Button, Text Block, Image, Error Viewer, Web Component, Table, Grid, Group, Tab)

v1.8.8 — 2026-04-27

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Color picker for color properties (FontColor, BackColor, etc.)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Attribute / Variable picker for User Control properties (ControlAttVarReference)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] User Control containers render their internal zones (gxgxui.Layout with North / Center / South / East / West)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Control Name shown in the General category for User Control instances
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Responsive sizes preview works when JSON declares fewer cells than the row
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] <ucw> controls in Abstract Layout are recognised by the registry (suffix-matching heuristic)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] gxControlType no longer appears as an editable property

v1.8.7 — 2026-04-26

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] External User Controls discovered from the workspace (<workspace>/User Controls/)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] New command "KBBridge: Show User Controls" — QuickPick of every UC discovered
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] User Controls show their real name in the form preview, with toolbox icon when declared
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] UC letters as fallback icon
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Real properties of a User Control in GX Properties (Width, Height, Attribute, Data, FocusOnLoad, Font, etc.)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] GX Properties header shows <UC>: <Name> for User Control instances

v1.8.6 — 2026-04-25

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Per-property "Restore to Default" in the Responsive Sizes editor (right-click any field)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Auto-distribution of default cell widths
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Copy property value from the right-click menu
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Add ▸ in Abstract Layout creates a sibling cell automatically
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Cascade direction matches GeneXus IDE (XS/SM standalone, MD inherits SM, LG inherits MD)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] visible:false cells render alone in their logical row at 100% effective width
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Two 50% cells of a responsive row no longer wrap
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Move buttons skip invisible siblings
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Move persists to the JSON as move:N declaratively
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reordering at one scale doesn't bleed into the others

v1.8.5 — 2026-04-24

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Visual Responsive Sizes editor — modal with scale picker (XS/SM/MD/LG), live cell preview and per-cell properties (Width %, Offset %, Move ← →, Visible, Default)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Table Type picker — Tabular, Responsive, Absolute, Flex, SmartTable, Stencil
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Default checkbox per cell (resets every override / locks current values as explicit)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Custom editor inputs are read-only (use ... button or right-click to copy)

v1.8.4 — 2026-04-23

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Add Tab Page (right-click → Add ▸ Tab Page)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Drag & drop to rearrange controls (before / after / inside, with validation)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Row drag handle (≡) for tables with two or more rows
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Sticky header (toolbar, form tabs, breadcrumb stay pinned while scrolling)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Small drag threshold (1–2px movements ignored)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Responsive layout follows the row when reordered

v1.8.3 — 2026-04-22

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Delete controls from the form preview (right-click Delete or Delete key, with confirmation for non-empty containers)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Cut, Copy, Paste for controls and entire subtrees (Ctrl/Cmd + X/C/V)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Move controls up/down from the keyboard (Ctrl/Cmd + arrows; horizontal layouts use Left/Right)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Insert Attribute / Variable picker (searchable popup with KB attributes and local variables)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Add ▸ submenu on the context menu (Attribute, Button, TextBlock, Image, Error Viewer, Web Component, Table, Row, Cell, Section, Grid, Grid Column, Tab, etc.)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Add Area in MultiForm (creates Area link + referenced Form with empty responsive table)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Smart defaults for new controls (inherit majority-used sibling values)

v1.8.2 — 2026-04-21

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Many more editable properties in GX Properties (attributes, buttons, text blocks, grids, grid columns, images, tables, sections, fieldsets)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Caption support for attribute controls (text, position, class)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] GX Properties now works on Tabs, Tab Pages, Action Groups, Action Group Items, Layouts, Forms, Form references
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Title Font as a single collapsible group in grid columns
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] Parent properties (Font, Title Font, etc.) start collapsed
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Form preview updates immediately when a property changes
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Editing in MultiForm files writes to the correct form

v1.8.1 — 2026-04-20

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] GX Properties for form controls (attributes, text blocks, buttons, error viewers, images, grids, grid columns, web components, tables, rows, cells, fieldsets, divs, body)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Sub-properties shown as collapsible groups
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Visibility rules per property (e.g., combo-only properties hidden when control is Edit)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Combo values detected from code (literal values added in code events)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Form references — controls that point to another form are recognised; double-click navigates

v1.8.0 — 2026-04-19

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Visual Form Editor for .gxForm files — new editor that renders the form structure visually, supporting all three GeneXus form formats (HTML, Abstract Layout, MultiForm)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] WYSIWYG control rendering (text field for Edit, dropdown for Combo, checkbox for true/false, radio buttons for radio domains, calendar icon for Date/DateTime)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Sample data in grid columns
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Responsive layout preview (XS / SM / MD / LG)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Tabs for MultiForm files
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Clickable breadcrumb
• ✦Added: [core-lib] Faster initial load — KB indexing starts when a workspace with a Knowledge Base is opened
• ✦Added: [core-lib] New command "KBBridge: Show Cache Status"
• ✦Fixed: [core] "Select a child file to open" now opens .gxForm files in the Form Editor

Platform

• ✦Bundle rebuilt with new plugin code: 707 JS files (up from 640) across 7 extensions; bundle size 1.8 MB.
• ✦Bundle must be uploaded to keygenapi.kbbridge.com after this release.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.12 — 2026-04-27

Plugins v1.7.36 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Fixed: System installer (admin) — non-admin users could not load extensions due to EPERM writing to C:\Program Files\KBbridge\. Bundle loading now gracefully handles read-only extension directories: JS code loads from in-memory sourceCache, webview/schema files use the VSIX skeleton from install time.
• ✦Fixed: Bundle download on system installer — now saves to user-writable %AppData%\kbbridge\ instead of the read-only install directory (from v1.6.10).

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.11 — 2026-04-18

Plugins v1.7.36 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.36 — 2026-04-18

• ✦Fixed: [analyzer, validator] .gxPattern and .gxChilds files are no longer parsed as GeneXus source code — these files share the genexus language ID but are not parseable code, causing false syntax errors
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] "Save Object As..." now correctly updates the object name for SDT and API files
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] gxSync.trackExternalChanges default changed from false to true — external change tracking enabled by default

Platform

• ✦Fixed: Bundle download failing on system installer (C:\Program Files\KBbridge\). The bundle was saved to extensionPath which is read-only for non-admin users. Now saved to globalStoragePath (%AppData%\kbbridge\) which is always writable.
• ✦Updated: sync-status VSIX skeleton with trackExternalChanges default = true

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.10 — 2026-04-17

Plugins v1.7.35 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.35 — 2026-04-17

• ✦Fixed: [core-lib] CRITICAL — loadKeywordsConfig crash when keywords use versioned object format {"name":"Panel","since":"15.0"}. The loader called .toLowerCase() on the object instead of extracting the name field first, preventing activation of genexus-language-core and all dependent extensions (Analyzer, Validator, Controller, Visual Editor).

v1.7.34 addendum — 2026-04-17

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] GX Properties panel now filters properties by GeneXus version — reads kb-config.json and hides properties with since greater than the KB's version

Platform

• ✦Added: Update notification — license-manager checks GitHub Releases once per day, shows notification when a newer version is available (Download → kbbridge.com/download, Release Notes → kbbridge.com/changelog, Skip This Version). Opt-out via kbbridge.checkForUpdates setting. Manual check via Command Palette: KBEditor: Check for Updates.
• ✦Added: Two-step staged release flow — kbbridge-release builds all 3 OS in parallel (single click, draft); kbbridge-publish-verify + kbbridge-publish replace manual publishing (auto-detect version from version.json).
• ✦Fixed: Buy-license URL now sends KBEditor version (e.g. 1.6.9) instead of VS Code version (1.109.4).
• ✦Fixed: Bundle cache invalidation — was keyed by VS Code version (constant across KBEditor releases, never invalidated). Now keyed by KBEditor version.
• ✦Fixed: About dialog shows KBEditor 1.6.10 (VS Code 1.109.4) via product.json kbEditorVersion field + patch. package.json stays at VS Code version for extension compatibility.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.9 — 2026-04-16

Plugins v1.7.34 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.34 — 2026-04-16

• ✦Added: [core-lib] GeneXus version support — kb-config.json file in workspace declares genexusVersion; methods/properties/keywords filtered by since field; absent file assumes latest version
• ✦Added: [core-lib] New module config/kbConfig.ts with loadKBConfig(), parseGXVersion(), isFeatureAvailable(), filterByVersion()
• ✦Added: [core-lib] since field added to 150+ entries across gx-methods-config.json, gx-keywords-config.json, gx-functions-config.json, gx-properties-config.json
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Third chain validation now resolves initial type before chain resolution — &Var.ToString().Trim() no longer flags Trim as invalid
• ✦Fixed: [core-lib] Several returnType corrections (MailMessage.ReplyTo, Boolean.ToString, Numeric.IsEmpty); typo ChartAt → CharAt
• ✦Added: [core-lib] Many missing members: POP3Session, MailRecipientCollection, DateTime.AddDays, Character.Split/ToDate/ToDateTime, File.* (Open/Close/ReadLine/etc.), Directory., OutlookSession., DBConnection.*, sdt/collection ToJsonFile/ToXmlFile
• ✦Fixed: [validator] resolveDataType now recursively resolves chained domains

v1.7.33 — 2026-04-15

• ✦Fixed: [parser, analyzer] For Each with qualified transaction names (Module.Transaction) now correctly recognized — grammar baseTrnClause supports multi-level module paths
• ✦Fixed: [core-lib] Chained property access on built-in types resolves return types — &SMTPSession.Sender.Name no longer flags Name as invalid
• ✦Added: [core-lib] MailRecipientCollection missing members (New, Count, Item)

Platform

• ✦No platform changes (bundle rebuilt with v1.7.34)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.8 — 2026-04-14

Plugins v1.7.32 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.32 — 2026-04-14

• ✦Fixed: [validator, server, core-lib] Nested SDT references with module qualifiers now fully supported — fields like &Var.AccessTokenSDT.ExpiresIn where the SDT has a module-qualified DataType (AccessTokenSDT, PXTools.OAuthConsumer) are no longer flagged as invalid
• ✦Fixed: [server] Autocompletion for chained SDT field access no longer blocked by early GeneXus object detection — &Var.SDTField. now correctly shows sub-fields instead of returning empty results
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Level name lookup in getSDTFieldType is now case-insensitive

Platform

• ✦No platform changes (bundle rebuilt with v1.7.32)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 in place

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1.6.7 — 2026-04-13

Plugins v1.7.31 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.31 — 2026-04-13

• ✦Added: [sync-status] gxSync.trackExternalChanges setting (default: false) — enables/disables tracking of changes made to GeneXus source files outside of VSCode (e.g., by an external AI CLI). Changes from GeneXus IDE via KBBridge are always excluded.
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Settings tab in Sync Panel — gear icon next to tabs opens a configuration panel with toggle switch for trackExternalChanges
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Directory snapshot rebuild on enable — when trackExternalChanges is enabled, the file snapshot is rebuilt so only changes made after that moment are detected
• ✦Fixed: [core-lib] Count in collectionMethods changed from Method to Property — &Col.Count no longer flagged as requiring parentheses
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Variables with Collection = 'True' now correctly support collection methods (.Count, .Item(), .Add() etc.)
• ✦Refactored: [validator] buildVariablesMap() returns Map<string, VarInfo> with { name, dataType, isCollection } — eliminates fragile VARCOLLECTION: prefix hack
• ✦Refactored: [core-lib, server, validator, core] Renamed formControlProperties to formControls and autonomousControlProperties to autonomousControls
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] isKBBridgeExport() path comparison normalizes double slashes and backslashes — exported objects no longer incorrectly registered as external changes

v1.7.30 — 2026-04-09

• ✦Added: [core-lib, server, validator] Complete PEM for form controls (variables in Form) — common members for all controls plus ControlType-specific members (Edit, Combo Box, Check Box, List Box, Image, etc.)
• ✦Added: [core-lib, core, server] Complete PEM for autonomous controls — TextBlock, Button, Grid, Image, Table, WebComponent, UserControl with methods and properties parsed from .gxForm
• ✦Added: [core-lib] getFormControls() and getFormControlInfo() — parse .gxForm to extract ControlNames and ControlTypes
• ✦Added: [core-lib] HttpRequest missing properties (ScriptName, QueryString, ServerHost, etc.) and Cookie property corrections
• ✦Fixed: [server] loadGxMethodsConfig() now includes formControls, businessComponentMethods, and autonomousControls

Platform

• ✦Fixed: build-bundle.py now refreshes compiled genexus-language-core-lib into all dependents' node_modules before compilation — prevents stale file: dependency links from causing tsc failures when core-lib gains new exports
• ✦Updated: sync-status VSIX skeleton with new gxSync.trackExternalChanges setting

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified in-process registration uses Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1

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1.6.6 — 2026-04-08

Plugins v1.7.29 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.29 — 2026-04-08

• ✦Added: [core] File badge "AP" for .API.gxSource files in Explorer (was previously showing generic "GX")

v1.7.28 addendum — 2026-04-08

• ✦Fixed: [validator, core-lib] Variable lookups in methodValidator, parameterValidator and parameterParser are now consistently case-insensitive — variables declared as Cookie are correctly resolved when referenced as &cookie (and vice versa)

Platform

• ✦No platform changes (bundle rebuilt with v1.7.29)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

MCP

• ✦MCP server unchanged; verified in-process registration uses Electron + ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 (fix from 1.6.3 still in place)

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1.6.5 — 2026-04-08

Plugins v1.7.28 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Removed: Windows portable ZIP artifact (KBEditor-win32-x64-*.zip). Users who extracted the ZIP to custom folders (e.g. paths containing spaces) hit install-path edge cases that broke MCP server configuration and .mcp.json path resolution. Only the User Setup and System Setup installers are now published for Windows — both install to a predictable, space-free path under Programs\KBbridge\.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

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1.6.4 — 2026-04-07

Plugins v1.7.28 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.28 — 2026-04-07

• ✦Fixed: [core] "Go to Definition" on BusinessComponent:, Attribute: or Domain: reference prefixes — now navigates to the referenced Transaction/Attribute/Domain file (also supports module path: BusinessComponent:Name, Module.Path)
• ✦Added: [core-lib, visual-editor, validator] BusinessComponent variables support — variables can now be based on BusinessComponent:TransactionName (also with sub-structures and module path: BusinessComponent:Name.SubLevel, Module.Path)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] "Business Component" property in GX Properties for variables — autocompletes only Transactions with BusinessComponent = 'True' enabled
• ✦Added: [core-lib] Business Component methods documented in gx-methods-config.json — Load, Save, Insert, Update, InsertOrUpdate, Delete, Check, Success, Fail, GetMessages, ToXml, FromXml, ToJson, FromJson, GetByKey, RemoveByKey, Mode
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] ElementType calculated property (variable | attribute | domain) — restricts reference properties (Attribute, SDT, ExternalObject, BusinessComponent) to variables only
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Type Definition fields hidden when variable is based on a BusinessComponent
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] GX Properties detects #Variables [dynamic] and #Variables [readonly] sections — variables shown in readonly mode
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reference property placeholders hidden when property is in readonly mode

Platform

• ✦No platform changes (bundle rebuilt with v1.7.28)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.6.3 — 2026-04-07

Plugins v1.7.27 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Fixed: GeneXus Knowledge MCP server failed with "MCP error -32000: Connection closed" on machines without a system Node.js in PATH. The in-process registerMcpServerDefinitionProvider now uses KBEditor's bundled Electron binary with ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1, matching the auto-generated .vscode/mcp.json / .mcp.json configs.

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.6.2 — 2026-04-06

Plugins v1.7.27 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.27 — 2026-04-06

• ✦Fixed: [server] Method autocompletion no longer adds parentheses to SDT fields and properties
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Undeclared variable check now case-insensitive
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Duplicate property block creation prevented for reference properties
• ✦Added: [core-lib] "Case" keyword added to autocompletion suggestions

Platform

• ✦Changed: Updated shared config gx-keywords-config.json

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.6.1 — 2026-04-04

Plugins v1.7.26 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Added: "Buy a License" link on registration page — opens purchase page with user data (name, company, email, language, machine fingerprint, version, platform, arch) as URL parameters for payment processor integration
• ✦Fixed: Start menu folder now correctly shows "KBbridge" (shared with KBSync) instead of "KBEditor"

---

1.6.0 — 2026-04-04

Plugins v1.7.26 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.26 — 2026-04-04

• ✦Added: [core] GeneXus keywords in autocompletion (EndNew, EndIf, For Each, Do While, etc.)
• ✦Added: [core-lib] Compound keywords and completion exclusions in gx-keywords-config.json
• ✦Fixed: [core-lib] Cleaned up keywords config — removed non-existent keywords, added missing ones

v1.7.25 — 2026-04-03

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Extended properties for Variables (~50 extra from config), Attributes, and Domains
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] mergePropertySchemas() for combining schema + config properties
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] IsInForm calculated property, ObjectType from filename, ExternalName for APIs
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] DataType-based and ControlType-based conditional property visibility
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Readonly conditions for Domain/Supertype-based properties
• ✦Added: [config] variableProperties section with 9 shared property groups
• ✦Added: [config] Blob, GeoLine, GeoPolygon types in gx-methods-config.json
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] readonlyIf evaluates against defaults, Custom type as readonly, Color as string
• ✦Fixed: [config] DKL_ internal properties hidden, category/default corrections

Platform

• ✦Added: Error Lens (usernamehw.errorlens) pre-installed — displays inline error/warning messages next to code (open-source, MIT license)
• ✦Changed: Updated shared configs (gx-keywords, gx-methods, gx-properties)
• ✦Changed: Updated visual-editor VSIX schema (variable.json)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.5.3 — 2026-04-03

Plugins v1.7.25 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.25 — 2026-04-03

• ✦Fixed: [validator] Parameter mode prefixes (In:, Out:, InOut:) now case-insensitive in Parm() declarations
• ✦Fixed: [validator] "requires a variable (mode: out/inout)" warning now only triggers for non-assignable values
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] GX Properties shows variable properties when cursor is on &Variable in any Transaction section
• ✦Added: [server] Method autocompletion auto-inserts parentheses and triggers Signature Help

Platform

• ✦Removed: All debug traces and diagnostic code from license manager
• ✦Fixed: Updated ALL VSIX skeletons with current plugin defaults (validator rules enabled)
• ✦Fixed: Added require.resolve to bundle module hook
• ✦Added: Bundle loading lessons documented in .ai-context/

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.5.2 — 2026-04-02

Plugins v1.7.24 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Fixed: sync-status extension now loaded from encrypted bundle (was running from old VSIX stub — all new features were invisible)
• ✦Fixed: Webview TypeScript compiled separately for visual-editor and sync-status (both have their own tsconfig.json)
• ✦Fixed: CSS files now included in encrypted bundle and written to disk (4 files for properties-panel, sync-panel, new-object-panel, tree-editor)
• ✦Fixed: JSON schema files now included in bundle and written to disk (7 property schemas for visual-editor)
• ✦Fixed: VSIX skeleton updated with current property schemas (attribute.json, transaction-attribute.json changed)
• ✦Fixed: GxPropertiesConfigManager config path — added root-level node_modules/ alongside out/node_modules/
• ✦Fixed: Bundle now collects .js + .css + .json files (was .js only)
• ✦Fixed: License manager writes all webview, CSS, JSON, and schema files to disk at bundle load time

---

1.5.1 — 2026-04-02

Plugins v1.7.24 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Fixed: Webview TypeScript now compiled separately (visual-editor webview has own tsconfig)
• ✦Fixed: CSS files now included in encrypted bundle (4 files for properties-panel, sync-panel, new-object-panel, tree-editor)
• ✦Fixed: CSS and webview source files written to disk by license manager (webviews load via URI)
• ✦Fixed: GX Properties panel now updates correctly — object properties on line 1, updated styling
• ✦Fixed: GxPropertiesConfigManager config path — added root-level node_modules/ alongside out/node_modules/

---

1.5.0 — 2026-04-01

Plugins v1.7.24 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.24 — 2026-03-31

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] User saves in VSCode no longer blocked by KBEditor export check — onDidSaveTextDocument bypasses export filter (only external changes filtered)
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] .gxForm files correctly extracted by ObjectInfoExtractor — form saves generate proper change entries with object name and type

Platform

• ✦Changed: Start menu folder set to "KBbridge" (shared with KBSync)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.4.1 — 2026-03-30

Plugins v1.7.23 | VS Code 1.109.4

Platform

• ✦Fixed: Cached encrypted bundle now invalidated on app update — stores app version alongside bundle and forces re-download when version changes

---

1.4.0 — 2026-03-30

Plugins v1.7.23 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.23 — 2026-03-30

• ✦Added: [core] Signature Help for variable methods — &Variable.Method( shows parameter hints from methods config for all data types including External Objects
• ✦Added: [core] Signature Help for .Submit() calls with first parameter documentation
• ✦Added: [core] Active parameter highlighting — advances highlighted parameter as you type commas
• ✦Improved: [core] Signature Help regex patterns now case-insensitive
• ✦Improved: [core] Signature Help persists while typing arguments
• ✦Added: [config] Sleep, RGB, Space, StrSearch, StrSearchRev, StrReplace added to built-in functions
• ✦Improved: [core-lib] getMethodsForType() searches both builtInTypes and externalObjectTypes
• ✦Improved: [core-lib] SDT fields without explicit DataType default to Numeric(4.0)

v1.7.22 — 2026-03-29

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Visual distinction between editable, readonly, and default properties
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Editable input fields show blue border on focus
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Dropdown options display with bright text even in dimmed state
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Domain chain resolution — multi-level domain references fully resolved to base type
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Domain file lookup uses CacheManager as fallback
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] RestoreToDefault for reference properties correctly removes DataType
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] RestoreToDefault on pattern nodes preserves CustomType dropdown options
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Direct text input in CodeConditions/CodeExpressions no longer wraps in brackets
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Reference fields no longer show double border
• ✦Fixed: [config] Web Service Protocol properties correctly hidden when "Expose as Web Service" is false
• ✦Added: [core] File badges for Table (TB), Attribute (AT), and Domain (DM) in Explorer

Platform

• ✦Changed: Updated shared config gx-functions-config.json (6 new built-in functions)
• ✦Changed: Product renamed from KBbridge to KBEditor (display name only — internal IDs preserved)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.3.0 — 2026-03-29

Plugins v1.7.21 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.21 — 2026-03-29

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Object-level properties in GX Properties panel — clicking on line 1 of any .gxSource shows editable properties (Description, Call Protocol, Object Visibility, etc.) driven by gx-properties-config.json
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Table attribute properties — clicking attribute in .Table.gxSource shows properties in readonly mode
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] ExternalObject member properties — Properties, Methods, Parameters, Events shown with member-specific properties
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] New reference property types: SDTReference, MasterPageReference, ThemeReference
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Property value remapping — internal GeneXus names mapped to display names (prettyName)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Multi-line Formula display with auto-sizing textarea
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Subcategory visual nesting with / separator
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Enum display names in dropdown properties
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Conditional property visibility and readonly rules from config
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Fallback properties for undeclared object types (BASE + BASE_VISIBILITY)
• ✦Changed: [visual-editor] JSON/Traditional toggle moved inside element header
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] DataType shown as readonly (not hidden) when based on Domain
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Multi-line property parsing and write-back with correct indentation
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Comma formatting in property blocks handles multi-line values
• ✦Added: [analyzer] Full syntax parsing for .Group.gxSource files
• ✦Fixed: [parser] Multi-line string values supported in all property blocks
• ✦Fixed: [validator] "requires a variable (mode: out)" downgraded from Error to Warning
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Bulk export end detection uses file modification time as reference
• ✦Added: [config] PrivateObject moved to ignored properties
• ✦Changed: [config] BASE split into BASE (Description) and BASE_VISIBILITY (ObjectVisibility)

v1.7.20 — 2026-03-28

• ✦Added: [sync-status] .gxForm files now tracked as user changes

v1.7.19 — 2026-03-26

• ✦Added: [analyzer] Full syntax parsing for .Table.gxSource files (PhysicalAttributes, LogicalAttributes, RedundantAttributes, Indexes, ForeignTables, etc.)
• ✦Added: [analyzer] Full syntax parsing for .ExternalObject.gxSource files (Properties, Methods, Events)
• ✦Added: [analyzer] [readonly] section protection with distinct grey border decoration
• ✦Added: [analyzer] Multi-line string support in LogicalAttributes Formula
• ✦Added: [icons] Table icon with grid/column design
• ✦Added: [core] .Table.gxSource registered as GeneXus language file
• ✦Added: [sync-status] "Delete All Pending" button in deletion confirmation
• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] Files modified during bulk export excluded from change tracking
• ✦Fixed: [parser] Dom:DomainName.Value syntax recognized

v1.7.18 — 2026-03-25

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Bulk export detection — mass externalization pauses file change tracking
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Status bar spinner during bulk export: "KBEditor: Exporting KB..."
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Banner in Sync panel during bulk export
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Configurable bulk export timeout (default 30 min) with notification
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Startup detection of in-progress bulk export

Platform

• ✦Added: MCP server embedded in installer for all platforms (esbuild bundle + platform-specific native addons)
• ✦Added: Auto-generate AI config files for GeneXus workspaces (.vscode/mcp.json, .mcp.json, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/mcp.json)
• ✦Added: MCP server uses KBEditor's own Electron as Node runtime (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1) — no external Node.js required
• ✦Added: MCP config merge logic — adds server to existing config files without overwriting
• ✦Added: Versioning system — version.json as single source of truth, CI reads it for artifact names
• ✦Added: Unified CHANGELOG across Plugins/Platform/VS Code streams
• ✦Added: CI publishes installers to public kbbridge-releases repo with structured release notes
• ✦Added: CI auto-updates public repo README with direct per-platform download links
• ✦Added: CI publishes CHANGELOG.md to public repo automatically
• ✦Added: Installer files renamed from VS Code version to KBEditor version (e.g., KBEditorSetup-x64-1.3.0.exe)
• ✦Added: AI context files committed to git (kbbridge/.ai-context/) for project continuity
• ✦Added: CLAUDE.md at repo root for Claude Code auto-loading
• ✦Added: New shared config gx-properties-config.json for object property definitions
• ✦Fixed: Extension loading isolation — one extension failure no longer blocks the remaining 5
• ✦Fixed: MCP server dependency resolution — auto-walk full transitive dep tree (55 packages) instead of manual cherry-picking
• ✦Fixed: Stubs for sharp and onnxruntime-web (imported by transformers but unused on Node.js)
• ✦Fixed: core-lib package.json created inline (not copied from plugins repo — broke on CI)
• ✦Fixed: macOS embed script compatibility (mktemp and sed BSD syntax)
• ✦Fixed: GitHub Actions secrets not allowed in step-level if expressions
• ✦Changed: VSIX skeletons updated (core: Table file type, sync-status: bulk export timeout, icons: Table icon)
• ✦Changed: Bundle rebuilt — 663 JS files (was 662)

VS Code 1.109.4

• ✦No upstream changes

---

1.2.0 — 2026-03-26

Plugins v1.7.17 | VS Code 1.109.4

Plugins

v1.7.17 — 2026-03-24

• ✦Fixed: [validator] Parameter type resolution fully resolves variables via Attributes to base data type
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Domains/attributes without explicit DataType default to Numeric(4.0) (GeneXus standard)
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Qualified names in .Call() / .Udp() resolved correctly (e.g., V138.FirmaReporte.Udp())
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Block comments (/* ... */) now skipped during validation
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Numeric(9.0-) signed format accepted — - suffix no longer flagged
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Property access on built-in types (e.g., &Directory.Source.Trim()) resolves correctly
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Case-insensitive lookup for built-in type methods
• ✦Fixed: [parser] All GeneXus keywords fully case-insensitive (EndIF, endif, ENDIF all valid)
• ✦Fixed: [parser] For Each Count &Variable now valid without Skip
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] SDT type classification for DataTypes with . in name
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] SDT autocomplete shows nested collection items (on-demand top-10 expansion)
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Autocomplete no longer disappears when typing , for module filtering
• ✦Added: [sync-status] KBEditor export exclusion — files exported by KBEditor not tracked as user changes
• ✦Changed: [icons] Knowledge Base icon redesigned — 3D cube with semi-transparent faces

v1.7.16 — 2026-03-23

• ✦Fixed: [validator] SDT field path navigation descends correctly into sub-levels
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Enum domain vs compatible base type mismatch downgraded to Warning
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Parameter error messages show caller's variable name (not callee's parameter name)
• ✦Fixed: [validator] .Udp() return errors highlight assignment variable (before =)
• ✦Fixed: [validator] Parameter position highlighting works inside nested function calls
• ✦Added: [validator] Built-in GeneXus function validation (Msg, iif, Format, etc.) with parameter count/types
• ✦Added: [validator] any type support for parameters
• ✦Added: [validator] Skip re-validation on editor tab switch if document unchanged
• ✦Added: [validator] Cached parsed parameters for called procedures
• ✦Fixed: [parser] Count(attribute, condition) recognized as valid function call
• ✦Fixed: [parser] &Commit and keyword-named variables parsed correctly in all contexts
• ✦Fixed: [analyzer] [dynamic] sections now offer dialog instead of silently blocking edits
• ✦Added: [core] "KBEditor: Reindex Cache" command with progress bar
• ✦Fixed: [core] Go to Definition adds found objects to cache for instant subsequent lookups
• ✦Fixed: [core] Hover and Code Action use cached KB objects instead of full workspace scan
• ✦Fixed: [core] Output panel no longer opens automatically on reload
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Delete button on Pending entries with confirmation dialog
• ✦Changed: [sync-status] Panel title "GX Sync" → "KBEditor Sync"

v1.7.15 — 2026-03-21

• ✦Added: [validator] Built-in function validation for Msg (1-2 params) and iif (3 params)
• ✦Changed: [icons] Knowledge Base icon updated

v1.7.14 — 2026-03-19

• ✦Added: [validator] "Add Variable" Quick Fix infers data type from variable name
• ✦Added: [validator] Predefined variable &Mode with type Character(3) for Transactions

Platform

• ✦Added: MCP server embedded in installer for all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• ✦Added: esbuild bundling — MCP server JS bundled to single 2.2 MB file, only native addons shipped separately
• ✦Added: Auto-generate AI config files when GeneXus workspace detected (.vscode/mcp.json, .mcp.json, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/mcp.json)
• ✦Added: MCP configs use KBEditor's own Electron as Node runtime (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1) — no external Node.js needed
• ✦Added: MCP config merge logic — adds genexus-knowledge to existing config files without overwriting
• ✦Added: Per-module feature documentation in PRODUCT_OVERVIEW.md
• ✦Added: Date + commit hash in CI artifact names for build identification
• ✦Added: GitHub Release mcp-data-v1 for MCP server data (vector DB + embedding model)
• ✦Fixed: Extension loading isolation — one extension failure no longer blocks the remaining 5
• ✦Fixed: core-lib package.json created inline (not copied from plugins repo — broke on CI)
• ✦Fixed: MCP server dependency resolution — auto-walk full transitive dep tree (55 packages) instead of manual cherry-picking
• ✦Fixed: Added stubs for sharp and onnxruntime-web (imported by transformers but unused)
• ✦Changed: VSIX skeletons updated — KBEditor command categories, reindexCache command, new KB icon
• ✦Changed: Embed script creates core-lib directory structure with package.json + 3 shared JSON configs
• ✦Changed: Bundle source hotfixes (non-blocking indexer, icon mappings) now inactive — upstream has them natively

---

1.1.0 — 2026-03-21

Plugins v1.7.13 | VS Code 1.109.0

Plugins

v1.7.13 — 2026-03-17

• ✦Added: [analyzer] Full syntax parsing for .API.gxSource files (API objects with groups, methods, annotations)
• ✦Added: [icons] New SVG icons: API, ExternalObject, Childs, test types (outline style, rounded borders)
• ✦Added: [icons] Form-specific icons: WebPanel, Transaction, WebComponent, MasterPage, Panel for SD
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] New object types in "New Object" panel: Attribute, ExternalObject, API, WebMasterPage, test types
• ✦Changed: [icons] All object icons redesigned to consistent outline style

v1.7.12 — 2026-03-16

• ✦Fixed: [core] Incorrect scope references in publisher configuration

v1.7.11 — 2026-03-15

• ✦Added: [core] .gxForm language — XML highlighting and auto pretty-printing, separated from GeneXus language
• ✦Added: [core] "Save Object As..." available from editor tabs

v1.7.9 — 2026-03-12

• ✦Fixed: [core] Re-enabled hover tooltips disabled during performance optimization

v1.7.7 — 2026-03-10

• ✦Added: [analyzer] Dynamic section protection (#[dynamic] / [dynamic] tags) with visual decorations
• ✦Added: [analyzer] DataProvider group properties: NoOutput, OutputIfDetail, One, Count, Skip

v1.7.6 — 2026-03-09

• ✦Added: [core] Group file (.gxGroup) support
• ✦Added: [core] Non-blocking reference indexer — no more editor freezes on large KBs
• ✦Added: [controller] Sort Variables — auto-alphabetize #Variables section on save
• ✦Fixed: [visual-editor] Properties panel variable editing fixes

v1.7.5 — 2026-03-04

• ✦Fixed: [sync-status] "Skipped" toggle button now works correctly

v1.7.4 — 2026-03-03

• ✦Improved: [sync-status] Panel UI — better entry layout, status badges, usability

Platform

• ✦Added: GeneXus documentation MCP server — local vector DB with 46,750 doc chunks, 3 AI tools (search_docs, lookup_method, list_topics), fully offline
• ✦Added: MCP server registered via VS Code mcpServerDefinitions proposed API
• ✦Added: Product overview and marketing documentation (PRODUCT_OVERVIEW.md)
• ✦Added: Automated bundle build script (build-bundle.py) — compiles all plugins and creates ZIP
• ✦Added: Hotfix system — non-blocking reference indexer and test/API icon mappings injected at bundle load time
• ✦Fixed: Bundle require hook resolves package imports from encrypted bundle
• ✦Fixed: Language server skeleton VSIX includes all third-party deps
• ✦Fixed: Bundle cache invalidation and language server crash
• ✦Fixed: Webview scripts written to disk (sandboxed iframes can't load from memory)
• ✦Fixed: Bundle path normalization for Windows backslashes
• ✦Fixed: Properties panel race condition on startup
• ✦Fixed: Extension host blocking during reference index build
• ✦Fixed: Bundle disk-write policy — empty placeholders for extension host files, real source for webview/LSP
• ✦Added: License recovery via /getlicensekey endpoint
• ✦Added: Machine File Certificate verification for startup fingerprint check
• ✦Fixed: Trial recovery and expiry handling from updated API
• ✦Changed: GitHub Actions updated to Node 24 compatible versions

---

1.0.0 — 2026-02-26

Plugins v1.7.1 | VS Code 1.109.0

Plugins

v1.7.0 — 2026-02-14

• ✦Added: [sync-status] Synchronization status extension — change tracking panel with three tabs
• ✦Added: [sync-status] Automatic change detection on file save and filesystem monitoring
• ✦Added: [sync-status] External change reconciliation and configurable retention

v1.6.0 — 2026-01-25

• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Visual editing extension — GX Properties panel, pattern tree viewer
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] DataType compound parsing (Numeric(12.2-) → Length=12, Decimals=2, Signed=true)
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Variable renaming with automatic source file update
• ✦Added: [visual-editor] Reference autocomplete for Domain, Attribute, SDT, ExternalObject

v1.5.0 — 2026-01-10

• ✦Added: [controller] Object editing operations extension
• ✦Added: [controller] Transaction ↔ Attribute synchronization

v1.4.0 — 2026-01-02

• ✦Added: [core] Instant KB object lookup with background indexing and persistent cache

v1.3.0 — 2025-12-15

• ✦Added: [all] Shared library — parsing, search, type resolution across all extensions
• ✦Added: [all] Method/property definitions for all GeneXus built-in types

v1.2.0 — 2025-12-10

• ✦Added: [validator] Semantic validation extension — DataType, undeclared variables, parameter checking, method chain validation

v1.1.0 — 2025-11-25

• ✦Added: [analyzer] Syntax analysis extension with ANTLR4 grammar
• ✦Added: [parser] GeneXus lexer and parser for .gxSource files

v1.0.0 — 2025-11-12

• ✦Added: [icons] File icon theme for GeneXus object types
• ✦Added: [core] GeneXus language definition — syntax highlighting, snippets
• ✦Added: [server] Language Server with Go to Definition, Hover, Code completion

Platform

• ✦Added: KBEditor branded VS Code fork (based on VSCodium)
• ✦Added: Custom branding — name, icons, data folder (.kbbridge)
• ✦Added: Phase 0 — embed proprietary extensions as built-in (non-uninstallable)
• ✦Added: Phase 1 — Rust native loader with AES-256-GCM decryption
• ✦Added: Phase 1.5 — License Manager (registration, 15-day trial, paid license activation)
• ✦Added: Phase 2 — Extension API server at keygenapi.kbbridge.com
• ✦Added: Phase 3 — Runtime bundle decryption and loading via Module._compile()
• ✦Added: Offline license verification with Ed25519 signatures
• ✦Added: Machine fingerprinting (7-point hardware identification)
• ✦Added: GitHub Actions CI workflows for Windows, macOS (x64 + arm64), Linux
• ✦Added: VSIX skeleton system — stubs in repo, real code in encrypted bundle
• ✦Added: Update checks disabled in builds
• ✦Added: Publisher rename pipeline (puntoexe → kbbridge)

VS Code 1.109.0

• ✦Initial base version from upstream VSCodium