October 2021

Welcome to the October 2021 release of Visual Studio Code. In addition to releasing a preview of vscode.dev, we announced in the October iteration plan that we would focus on housekeeping GitHub issues and pull requests (see our issue cleanup guide). Across all of our VS Code repositories, we closed (either triaged or fixed) 4163 issues. While we closed issues, you created 2222 new issues. The main vscode repository now has 2491 open feature requests and 1246 open bugs. In addition, we closed 194 pull requests.

As in previous years, we used the live tracker from Benjamin Lannon to track our progress:

Given the focus on shipping vscode.dev, not everybody on the team had cycles for clean-up, so some issue clean-up will continue in November. After housekeeping, we also addressed feature requests and community pull requests.

Watch a highlight of the new features in this version in the VS Code team's release party. You can find the recording of the event on our YouTube channel.

September 2021 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

For the complete release notes go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

September 2021 Recovery

The update addresses these issues.

For the complete release notes go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

September 2021

Welcome to the September 2021 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Split editors within the same group - Quickly create side-by-side editors for the same file.
• Locked editor groups - Select editor types to automatically lock in an editor group.
• Better display of deleted and readonly files - Tab decorations highlight deleted and readonly files.
• Bracket pair guides - Display vertical guides to link matching bracket pairs.
• Fixed terminal dimensions - Set an active terminal's width and height.
• Jupyter Notebook improvements - Table of Contents view, full debugging support.
• Platform-specific extensions - Publish different extension versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Virtual Workspaces extension guide - Learn how to update your extension for virtual environments.
• Advanced container configuration - Tips, code samples, and videos to help configure development containers.

If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

Join us live at the VS Code team's livestream on Thursday, October 7 at 8am Pacific (4pm London) to see a demo of what's new in this release, and ask us questions live.

Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.

August 2021 Recovery 2

August 2021 Recovery 2

August 2021 Recovery

The update addresses these issues.

For the complete release notes go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

August 2021

Welcome to the August 2021 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Automatic language detection - Programming language detected when you paste into VS Code.
• Built-in fast bracket colorization - Fast bracket matching and colorization for large files.
• Settings editor syntax highlighting - Rich syntax highlighting for setting description code blocks.
• Custom terminal glyph rendering - Better display of box drawing and block element characters.
• Set debugging Watch values - Change watched values during a debugging session.
• Notebook improvements - Markdown link navigation, faster rendering of large outputs.
• JavaScript/TypeScript inlay hints - Inline hints for parameter names and types, and more.
• Locked editor group preview - Keep a preferred editor layout by locking the editor group.
• Python extension testing updates - Better support for test discovery, navigation, and status.
• Web extension authors guide - Learn how to update your extension for VS Code in the browser.

If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

Join us live at the VS Code team's livestream on Thursday, September 2 at 8am Pacific (4pm London) to see a demo of what's new in this release, and ask us questions live.

Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.

July 2021 Recovery

The update addresses these issues.

For the complete release notes go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

July 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Extensions view improvements - Rich extension detail hovers, new runtime status tab.
• Settings editor validation - Quickly find editing errors for object-based settings.
• Drag and drop terminals - Move terminals across windows to both editor and panel areas.
• Extended theme customization - Customize multiple color themes at once.
• Built-in support for Jupyter notebooks - Open .ipynb files directly in VS Code.
• Notebook UI improvements - Display first line of collapsed cells, Undo/Redo per cell.
• Testing API finalized - Native support for running tests in VS Code with built-in Test Explorer.
• Debug Disassembly view preview - Display disassembled C++ code in VS Code.
• Live Preview extension - Live HTML preview within VS Code with JavaScript debugging support.
• Remote - Containers devcontainer CLI - Command line interface for working with development containers.

If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.

June 2021 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

For the complete release notes go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.