- Honor the "terminal.integrated.automationShell" setting when spawning make for configure. [#233](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/233)
- Remove the "build" button icon from other UIs than the main Makefile Tools panel. [#245](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/245)
- The build task fails for projects using -f or -C (makefile not in root) because of quoting. [#249](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/249)
- Fix activation for makefiles below the root. [#248](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/248)
- Support for problem matchers. [#7](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/7)
Bug fixes:
- Fix wrong extension activation for non makefile projects. [#181](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/181)
- Align defaults for C/C++ standard and IntelliSense mode to expectations in CMakeTools/CppTools. [#119](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/119)
- Fix parsing source file paths when in quotes. [#203](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/203)
- Don't show the Makefile Tools output channel automatically. [#115](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/115)
- Improve parsing of more complicated scenarios of quoting and escaping for -D and -I. [#169](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/169)
- Pass pre-configure environment to the build task. [PR #104](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/239)
- Complete the parsing input text with what is outputted on stderr as well, besides stdout. [PR #238](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/238)
- Fix paths processing for non-windows tools run on windows outside MinGW/CygWin environments. [#219](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/219)
- Fix pre-configure script invocation, broken on Linux starting with Makefile Tools 0.2.1. [#170](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/170) [@avrahamshukron](https://github.com/avrahamshukron)