Release notes opening as source code an not as HTML page as in previous version

[jotamorais]

Issue Type: Bug

Expected: After updating VS Code to latest version and restarting VS Code, one would expect the Release Notes to open as an HTML page (preview mode).

Actual: After updating and restarting VS Code, Release Notes opens as HTML source code.

VS Code version: Code 1.25.1 (1dfc5e557209371715f655691b1235b6b26a06be, 2018-07-11T15:43:53.668Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.10586

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rasterization: disabled_software
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
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webgl2: enabled| |Memory (System)|15.68GB (5.38GB free)| |Process Argv|C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

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• Release notes 1.25.0 is not fully working (#53883)

[joaomoreno]

What opens if you run F1, Show Release Notes?

[jotamorais]

@joaomoreno Pressing F1 actually showed an excerpt of our corporate proxy cover page. So, yeah, that helped to understand that our corp proxy is getting in our way.

This is similar to #53883

Appreciate your guidance here.

[joaomoreno]

Yeah this is definitely related to proxy issues.

The only way to fix this is to check for the content returned by the release notes Markdown URL, example: https://code.visualstudio.com/raw/v1_26.md

@gregvanl Is it safe to assume that the release notes always start with the following?

# MONTH YEAR (VERSION)

[gregvanl]

@joaomoreno Yes, there are no plans to change the h1 header.

[eflamm]

FWIW, I do not have a proxy connection, and while the release notes appear to be rendered as HTML, the links in the first section (Welcome to the June 2018 release...) are all prefixed with https://code.visualstudio.com/raw/... whereas if I open the release notes online, the links are https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/.... As a result, the links in the release notes don't open a browser window as expected.