From f14ec29ec83b3a1d09e15874185fad899e43c88e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddharth Saladi <siddharthsaladi@dhcp-9-16-63-159.atx-us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:20:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fixed so correct previous VS Code version resolves

---
 src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh | 40 ++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh b/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
index 547d75f6..67e86597 100755
--- a/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
+++ b/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
@@ -138,28 +138,30 @@ startDisplayAndDocker() {
 
 #find current vscode version
 setVscodeVersionToTest() {
-        latest_version=$(curl -s https://code.visualstudio.com/updates)
-        current_version=$(echo $latest_version | cut -d"v" -f2 | sed 's/_/./g')
-
-        if echo "$current_version" | grep -qE '^[1-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
-                echo "The string is a version string."
-                previous_version=$(awk -F. '{print $1"."$2-1}' <<<$current_version)
-                previousMinusOne=$(awk -F. '{print $1"."$2-2}' <<<$current_version)
-                echo $current_version $previous_version $previousMinusOne
-        else
-                echo "The string is not a version string."
-                current_version='latest'
-                previous_version='latest'
-                previousMinusOne='latest'
+        if [[ $VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN == 'latest' ]]; then
+                return
         fi
 
-        if [[ $VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN = 'latest' ]]; then
-                VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN='latest'
-        elif [[ $VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN = 'previous' ]]; then
-                VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN="$previous_version.0"
-        else
-                VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN="$previousMinusOne.0"
+        local versions_json
+        versions_json=$(curl -sf "https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/releases/stable")
+
+        if [[ -z "$versions_json" ]]; then
+                echo "ERROR: Failed to fetch VS Code release list."
+                exit 1
         fi
+
+        local all_versions latest_minor previous_version
+        all_versions=$(echo "$versions_json" | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
+        latest_minor=$(echo "$all_versions" | head -1 | grep -oE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
+        previous_version=$(echo "$all_versions" | grep -v "^${latest_minor}\." | head -1)
+
+        if [[ -z "$previous_version" ]]; then
+                echo "ERROR: Could not extract previous VS Code version from release list."
+                exit 1
+        fi
+
+        echo "Resolved previous VS Code version: $previous_version"
+        VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN="$previous_version"
 }
 
 # Finding the exit status of a command and updating failure boolean.

From e056175bfb1aef9948c98ffa8222c604c575f963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddharth Saladi <siddharthsaladi@dhcp-9-16-63-159.atx-us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:30:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove version echo from setVscodeVersionToTest

---
 src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh b/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
index 67e86597..b3b8664e 100755
--- a/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
+++ b/src/test/resources/ci/scripts/exec.sh
@@ -160,7 +160,6 @@ setVscodeVersionToTest() {
                 exit 1
         fi
 
-        echo "Resolved previous VS Code version: $previous_version"
         VSCODE_VERSION_TO_RUN="$previous_version"
 }