Shell for VS Code Initialisation Error when running in WSL2 Ubuntu

[RTaylor5486]

Hello,

Windows: 11 Enterprise 10.0.26100
WSL2: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

VSCode running in windows, using WSL extension. MYSQL Shell extension running in Ubuntu's vs-code extension host.

Since version 1.19.10, the extension has been unable to initialise and is unusable. After a short investigation, the log file located in WSL2 at ~/.vscode-server/data/logs/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/exthost2/remoteexthost.log contains the following:

2025-06-06 10:18:44.086 [error] ReferenceError: sessionStorage is not defined
        at <static_initializer> (/home/****/.vscode-server/extensions/oracle.mysql-shell-for-vs-code-1.19.12-linux-x64/out/main.cjs:14:13094)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/home/****/.vscode-server/extensions/oracle.mysql-shell-for-vs-code-1.19.12-linux-x64/out/main.cjs:14:10706)
        at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1529:14)
        at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1613:10)
        at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1275:32)
        at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1096:12)
        at e._load (file:///home/****/.vscode-server/bin/258e40fedc6cb8edf399a463ce3a9d32e7e1f6f3/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:225:1509)
        at t._load (file:///home//****/.vscode-server/bin/258e40fedc6cb8edf399a463ce3a9d32e7e1f6f3/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:180:22628)
        at r._load (file:///home/****/.vscode-server/bin/258e40fedc6cb8edf399a463ce3a9d32e7e1f6f3/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:172:22062)
        at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1298:19)
        at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:182:18)
        at DJ.Cb (file:///home/****/.vscode-server/bin/258e40fedc6cb8edf399a463ce3a9d32e7e1f6f3/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:211:1253)

Currently the only workaround is to downgrade the plugin to version 1.19.9 or below.