| What's new in this version: Visual Studio Code 1.55.2
The update addresses these security issues:
- Limit set of allowed remote CLI commands bug important
- command: links should be only selectively enabled bug important
- Spawning php should use its complete disk path bug important
- Spawning npm should use its complete disk path bug important
- CSS should use variables when using editor.fontFamily bug important
- The http.proxy setting should use machine or application scope bug important
Visual Studio Code 1.55.1
- Proxy agent is hijacking requests and redirecting them to localhost
- Remote extensions are not installed automatically from devcontainer.json
- Bug Sur icons glitched on non-hidpi screens
- ECONNREFUSED debugging browsers in WSL2
Visual Studio Code 1.55.0
- Accessibility improvements - Multi-cursor support and increased line limit
- Updated icons for macOS Big Sur - Brand icons that match the visual style of Big Sur
- Improvements to breakpoints - Inline breakpoints menu, and more
- Editor status decorations - Editor tab status decorations are on by default
- Customize keyboard shortcuts editor - Resize columns in the keyboard shortcuts editor
- Improved remote ports management - Port forwarding autodetection, regex naming, and more
- Terminal profiles - Define profiles in terminal to conveniently launch non-default shells
- Notebook improvements - Multiple cell selection, and more customizable diff editor
- VS Code on Raspberry Pi - New topic explaining how to install VS Code on Raspberry Pi devices
Visual Studio Code 1.54.3
- February Recovery 3
- VS Code is unable to activate a debugger extension because of path casing discrepancies
Visual Studio Code 1.54.2
Fixed:
- Listener leak in Ports view
- Close terminal warning shows even if no terminal is open
- Command "View: Join all editor groups" not working after update
- Pick up TS 4.2.3
- Cannot find module 'worker_threads' using js debugger auto attach
- Completed tiles of "Getting Started" don't reopen
- List focus background needs proper migration
- Renaming a folder adds it to history
- FileSystemProvider extension: throwing a FileSystemError in readFile does not report to user
- Hide pty host unresponsive notification when it becomes responsive again
- Terminal pty host unresponsive after closing a VS Code window
- Prevent env var relaunch from extension owned terminals
Visual Studio Code 1.54.1
- The update addresses an issue with an extension dependency
Visual Studio Code 1.53.2
Fixed:
- TS Server fatal error: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined
- <> in all files
- Minimap keeps disappearing
- Fresh install won't open any windows or allow me to open any windows
- First call to activeDebugConsole.appendLine() while debugging JavaScript doesn't appear in the debug console
- Cannot unset StatusBarItem background from errorBackground
- tasks.json npm script does not work with arguments since 1.53
- v1.53 creates debug.log automatically
- The default extension for untitled files is not .txt
- Emmet suggestions bug in SASS files
- VSCode emmet SASS snippets
- IME ON at Alt+` key, Focus ALT Menu
Visual Studio Code 1.53.1
Security issues:
- Bundle TypeScript 4.1.4
- Dragging files from explorer to terminal may execute a command
- Pick up new distro version and bump version
Visual Studio Code 1.53.0
- Wrap tabs - Wrap editor tabs in the workbench instead of having a scrollbar
- Configure tab decorations - Add editor tab status decorations
- Customize search mode - Use the Search view or open a new Search editor
- JavaScript debugging - Support for conditional exception breakpoints and Node.js worker_threads
- Notebook UX updates - Outline view for Notebook cells, and breadcrumbs for improved navigation
- Markdown preview image auto update - Preview automatically updates when images change
- Emmet improvements - Faster performance and supporting the latest features
- Extension guidelines - Documented best practices for extension authors
- Remote Development video series - Learn to create and configure container-based environments
Visual Studio Code 1.52.1
The update addresses these issues:
- Check for all possible localhost string when checking if a tunnel already exists
- Can not set breakpoint in PHP files
- Notebook status bar icon colors missing
Visual Studio Code 1.52.0
- Word wrap in diff editor: both inline and side-by-side views now support word wrapping
- New extension bisect feature: troubleshoot which extensions are causing issues in VS Code
- Keyboard shortcuts editor improvements: create a keybinding from the Command Palette
- Undo file operations in Explorer: undo or redo file operations in the Explorer
- New Git commands and settings: optimize your Version Control experience with new capabilities
- Preview editor improvements: turn off preview editors altogether, and try new interaction models
- Sticky tab stops for spaces: improved experience when indenting with spaces
- Improved word-based suggestions: display word-based suggestions from other open files
- Terminal configuration support: modify terminal settings from the terminal dropdown menu
- New Remote Development resources: check out the new video and Learn module
Visual Studio Code 1.51.1
- "Reveal In Side Bar" does not work if the file is opened from external apps
- New ThemeIcon color in tree views can pollute other nodes
Visual Studio Code 1.51.0
New:
- unassigned Focus Left Editor Group (do not wrap around) workbench.action.focusLeftGroupWithoutWrap
- unassigned Focus Right Editor Group (do not wrap around) workbench.action.focusRightGroupWithoutWrap
- unassigned Focus Above Editor Group (do not wrap around) workbench.action.focusAboveGroupWithoutWrap
- unassigned Focus Below Editor Group (do not wrap around) workbench.action.focusBelowGroupWithoutWrap
- unassigned Focus Activity Bar workbench.action.focusActivityBar
Fixed:
- Windows: when deleting a folder with files that are in use, then there is no error message shown
- Should maintain row focus after deleting a file
- User input variables not working for launch configuration in multi-root workspace
- Moving a file should load the model directly with the contents it had before
- Extensions with a onDebugDynamicConfigurations are eagerly activated at startup in v1.50
- Send vscode.workspace.onWillCreateFiles/onDidCreateFiles events for folders
- Debug hover moves while expanding/collapsing
Visual Studio Code 1.50.1
- high CPU from file watcher in presence of cyclic symbolic links in workspace
- relativeFileDirname` gives empty string when the Dirname equals to current working directory
- Multiple prompt to grant access to login keychain
Visual Studio Code 1.50.0
- Accessible settings editor - Interact with the settings list like any other list in VS Code
- Pinned tabs improvements - Resize pinned tabs, unpin with one click, and more
- Linux ARM builds - VS Code is now available for both Linux ARMv7 and ARM64
- Improved debugging experience - Improved hover and filtering in debug console
- New JS debugger features - Toggle auto attach flows and see performance in real-time
- Panel layout improvements - New panel maximization settings and bottom panel size
- Webview Views support - Build extensions with webview views in the sidebar and panel
- Updated "Create a Dev Container" tutorial - Get started with Development Containers
Visual Studio Code 1.49.3
- August Recovery Endgame 3
- (Assumed) Fix for CVE-2020-16881 can be bypassed
Visual Studio Code 1.49.2
- Format modified text - Limit formatting to just the code you've changed
- Change casing on Search and Replace - Change text casing during global Search and Replace
- Source Control repositories view - Display pending changes per repository
- Filter Debug Console output - Quickly filter and find debugging output
- Improved JS debugger Auto Attach - "Smart" Auto Attach to Node.js scripts or test runners
- TypeScript optional chaining refactoring - Convert multiple checks to a concise optional chain
- JSDoc @deprecated tag support - IntelliSense clearly shows APIs marked as deprecated
- Notebook UX updates - Cell Status bar contributions, enhanced notebook diff editor
Visual Studio Code 1.49.1
The update addresses these issues:
- August 2020 Recovery Endgame
- Completions which use spaces are broken after updating from July to August version
- EPIPE write failure while debugging after upgrading to 1.49
- proxy authentication does not work on 1.49
Visual Studio Code 1.49.0
There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:
- Format modified text - Limit formatting to just the code you've changed
- Change casing on Search and Replace - Change text casing during global Search and Replace
- Source Control repositories view - Display pending changes per repository
- Filter Debug Console output - Quickly filter and find debugging output
- Improved JS debugger Auto Attach - "Smart" Auto Attach to Node.js scripts or test runners
- TypeScript optional chaining refactoring - Convert multiple checks to a concise optional chain
- JSDoc @deprecated tag support - IntelliSense clearly shows APIs marked as deprecated
- Notebook UX updates - Cell Status bar contributions, enhanced notebook diff editor
Visual Studio Code 1.48.2
Fixed:
- avoid lookups to api.npms.io for invalid package names bug json perf verified
- July 2020 Recovery 2 Endgame endgame-plan
- Client should retry the request when receiving 409 settings-sync verified
- Unable to open editor: Unexpected token JSON at position x. bug candidate workbench-state
Visual Studio Code 1.48.1
The update addresses these issues:
- Correct wording of the WSL recommendation
- July Recovery Endgame
- Right Click on Extension Search > Peek causes freeze
- Run Build Task List Not Sorting
- Cannot overwrite read only files anymore
- [v1.48] [Breaking] Cannot authenticate proxies
- There is no way to show the NPM scripts explorer when there is no top level package.json
- "IPersistFile::Save failed" during installation of VS Code Insiders
- Error while starting Sync: d is not iterable
- Saving untitled file always defaults to .txt
Visual Studio Code 1.48.0
- Settings Sync to Stable: settings Sync is now available for preview in stable
- Updated Extensions view menu: simplified menu with additional filtering options
- New Git View submenus: refactored overflow menu for Git in the Source Control view
- Updated in-browser debugging: debug in the browser without writing a launch configuration
- Publish a public repository: choose whether to publish to a public or private GitHub repository
- Notebook UX updates: new Cell menu, enhanced drag and drop
- New Remote Container topics: learn how to attach to a container and create a new dev container
- Java lightweight mode: start working with your Java source files more quickly
Visual Studio Code 1.47.3
The update addresses these issues:
- ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE when testing extension on 1.47.1
- Uninstall hook not executing
Visual Studio Code 1.47.2
- June 2020 Recovery 2 Engame
- Menus: Dropdown menu gets tiny when opened near the edge of the workbench
- SCM: View becomes empty, with errors in dev tools
- Snippets | Clipboard is not working
- "Proposed API is only available..." error in v1.47
- "Duplicate Workspace in New Window" just creates new window and opens workspace.json file
- Output channel Log (Window) does not appear until window reload for the first time
- Creating files will add 2 times BOM (UTF-8, 16)
- Reading from stdin via tmp file and pipe raise an exception
- Extensions issues after update to vscode 1.47.0
- [node-debugger] Debugger spams "Could not read sourcemaps" messages
- Node version detection causes issues with old Electron versions + Node >=12 on the PATH
- Double pasting in a webview with latest insiders
- Can't debug node application
Visual Studio Code 1.47.1
- Accessibility improvements: new screen reader capabilities
- Windows ARM builds: Windows on ARM is now available in stable
- New JavaScript debugger: debug in the terminal, profiling support
- Source Control unified view: all repositories displayed in a single view
- View and sort pending changes: view files as a tree or list, sort by name, path, or status
- Edit complex settings: edit object settings from the Settings editor
- New HexEditor extension: edit files in hexadecimal format from within VS Code
- Notebook UI updates: improved UX and undo/redo support
- Remote Development tutorials: learn to develop over SSH, inside Containers, and in WSL
- Java Pack Installer for macOS: get set up to develop in Java with VS Code on macOS
Visual Studio Code 1.47.0
- Accessibility improvements: new screen reader capabilities
- Windows ARM builds: Windows on ARM is now available in stable
- New JavaScript debugger: debug in the terminal, profiling support
- Source Control unified view: all repositories displayed in a single view
- View and sort pending changes: view files as a tree or list, sort by name, path, or status
- Edit complex settings: edit object settings from the Settings editor
- New HexEditor extension: edit files in hexadecimal format from within VS Code
- Notebook UI updates: improved UX and undo/redo support
- Remote Development tutorials: learn to develop over SSH, inside Containers, and in WSL
- Java Pack Installer for macOS: get set up to develop in Java with VS Code on macOS
Visual Studio Code 1.46.1
- Accessibility improvements: status bar navigation, easier keyboard text selection
- Flexible view and panel layout: move and group views in the Side Bar and Panel
- Pinned editor tabs: pin editors in the title bar to keep frequently used files handy
- Add GitHub remotes: add GitHub remotes to your local repository
- Automatic debugger configuration: save and modify generated debug configurations
- JavaScript CommonJS auto imports: auto imports will now use require for CommonJS modules
- JS/TS refactorings preserve newlines: formatting is preserved during refactoring operations
- Settings Sync preview: new Synced Machines and Data views to manage your preferences
- GitHub Issue Notebooks: run GitHub issue queries and display results in a custom Notebook
- Windows ARM64 support: new VS Code Insiders ARM64 builds are available
- VS Code at Build 2020: talks on Tips&Tricks, Remote Development, and The History of VS Code
Visual Studio Code 1.46.0
- Accessibility improvements: status bar navigation, easier keyboard text selection
- Flexible view and panel layout: move and group views in the Side Bar and Panel
- Pinned editor tabs: pin editors in the title bar to keep frequently used files handy
- Add GitHub remotes: add GitHub remotes to your local repository
- Automatic debugger configuration: save and modify generated debug configurations
- JavaScript CommonJS auto imports: auto imports will now use require for CommonJS modules
- JS/TS refactorings preserve newlines: formatting is preserved during refactoring operations
- Settings Sync preview: new Synced Machines and Data views to manage your preferences
- GitHub Issue Notebooks: run GitHub issue queries and display results in a custom Notebook
- Windows ARM64 support: new VS Code Insiders ARM64 builds are available
- VS Code at Build 2020: talks on Tips&Tricks, Remote Development, and The History of VS Code
Visual Studio Code 1.45.1
- Accessibility improvements - Focus commands to navigate the workbench, status bar accessibility
- Switch editor tabs via mouse wheel - Quickly switch files in the editor using your mouse wheel
- Faster syntax highlighting - Programming language colorization is up to 3 times faster
- Custom semantic colors - Change semantic token colors through your user settings
- GitHub authentication support - Automatic GitHub authentication for GitHub repositories
- GitHub Issues integration - Inline hovers and suggestions for GitHub issues and users
- Remote Development - Container configuration recommendations, WSL 2 support
- JavaScript debugger preview - CPU profiling, improved Auto Attach to Node.js processes
- New Docker Compose topic - Learn how to use Docker Compose to work with multiple containers
Visual Studio Code 1.45.0
- Accessibility improvements: focus commands to navigate the workbench, status bar accessibility
- Switch editor tabs via mouse wheel: quickly switch files in the editor using your mouse wheel
- Faster syntax highlighting:programming language colorization is up to 3 times faster
- Custom semantic colors: change semantic token colors through your user settings
- GitHub authentication support: automatic GitHub authentication for GitHub repositories
- GitHub Issues integration: inline hovers and suggestions for GitHub issues and users
- Remote Development: container configuration recommendations, WSL 2 support
- JavaScript debugger preview: CPU profiling, improved Auto Attach to Node.js processes
- New Docker Compose topic: learn how to use Docker Compose to work with multiple containers
Visual Studio Code 1.44.2
The update addresses these issues:
- Show notification when extensionHostProcess.js is missing on disk
- Can't search in workspace that includes folder using a FileSystemProvider
- Git on network drive broken after upgrade to 1.44.0
- Can't select recently visited file using arrow keys
- Using spaces in symbol (editor, workspace) picker can confuse results
- Action "merge all windows" gone after update to 1.44
- Possible regression: As of 1.44 cannot open multiple files from "Go to file..." menu
- '${workspaceFolder}' can not be resolved in a multi folder workspace
- Editor stays blurred when moving panels
Visual Studio Code 1.44.1
- Change log not available for this version
Visual Studio Code 1.44.0
Accessibility:
- This milestone we received great feedback from our community, which helped us identify and tackle many accessibility issues
- Diff view is now more accessible. Use F7 and Shift+F7 to navigate through changes and use the Stage / Unstage / Revert Selected Ranges commands to stage, unstage, or revert the current change
- Better roles used across our widgets. The listbox role is used for the Suggest widget and Quick Pick, list for static lists, and document for read-only content such as the Welcome view and Markdown preview
- Tuned the behavior of our Quick Pick widget
- The current line CodeLens can now be shown in the Quick Pick with the Show CodeLens Commands For Current Line command
Timeline view:
- The Timeline view is now out of preview and enabled by default. This is a unified view for visualizing time-series events (for example, Git commits, file saves, test runs, etc.) for a file. The Timeline view automatically updates showing the timeline for the currently active editor, by default. You can control this default behavior by toggling the eye icon in the view toolbar. Also, similar to other views, the Timeline view supports find or filter as you type.
- In this release, the built-in Git extension contributes a timeline source that provides the Git commit history of the specified file. Selecting a commit will open a diff view of the changes introduced by that commit. A context menu provides commands to Copy Commit ID and Copy Commit Message. There is also a new Open Timeline command on the File Explorer's context menu, to quickly show the timeline for the selected file.
Here is the Timeline view in action:
Timeline view:
Theme: Dark Amethyst:
- Additional timeline sources can be contributed by extensions (although the API is still in the proposed stage), which will be shown in the unified Timeline view. Extensions can also contribute menu items to the Timeline view, and to individual timeline items. You can also easily choose which sources you'd like included in the view.
Workbench:
Quick Open rewrite:
- The Quick Open (Ctrl+P) control was using an old version of our tree widget, and in this iteration, it was migrated to use our latest list control, already used in the rest of the VS Code UI. Functionally, you should not be able to tell the difference, as all commands will work as before
- We did take this opportunity to add some features that you might find useful
Quick Open:
Navigate from files to symbols:
- You can now continue to navigate to the symbols of a file result simply by typing @. For the file that is currently selected, all symbols will appear and the editor will open in the background to reveal the active symbol. The video below also shows that you can group symbols by category by following @ with :
Quick Open navigate to symbols:
Filter results by separating multiple queries with spaces:
- If you are getting too many results for a file search, you can add more search patterns after typing a space. For example, you can narrow down results by folder if you type one after the other.
Quick Open filtering:
- Note: This also works for the editor (Ctrl+Shift+O) and workspace (Ctrl+T) symbol picker. Any text after a space character will be used to filter by the container of that symbol
Input is preserved when switching providers:
- If you leave Quick Open visible and switch to another provider (for example, from file search to symbol search), VS Code will apply whatever filter is typed and use it for the new provider. This allows you to quickly reuse the typed input for symbol search when it was previously used for a file search.
Sort editor history by most recently used:
- A new setting "search.quickOpen.history.filterSortOrder": "recency" allows you to sort editor history by the most recently opened items, even when starting to search. By default, editor history results will be sorted by relevance based on the filter pattern that was used.
New command to open editor to the side:
A new command workbench.action.alternativeAcceptSelectedQuickOpenItem lets you add an additional keyboard shortcut to open files or symbols from Quick Open to the side. By default, Ctrl+Enter (macOS: Cmd+Enter) will open the file to the side in a new editor group, rather than in the current one.
Improved Extension Pack display:
- To identify Extension Packs in the Extensions view, there is now a number badge that shows the number of extensions included in the Extension Pack
- Extension Pack number of extensions badge
- Theme: GitHub Sharp with Customizations
- The Extension details page now shows all extensions bundled in the Extension Pack
- Extension Pack details page showing bundled extensions
- Theme: GitHub Sharp with Customizations
- Adjust height of editor tabs scroll bar
- A new setting workbench.editor.titleScrollbarSizing lets you increase the size of the scroll bar for editor tabs and breadcrumbs. This makes it easier to scroll through a long list of open editors.
Configure it to large for a larger scroll bar:
Large scrollbar:
- File Explorer can show hidden files
- If a file is hidden (via the files.exclude setting) but it is open and visible in the editor, the file is shown in the File Explorer along with its parent chain. Those files and their parents are displayed in the File Explorer using a dimmed color as long as the file is visible in the editor area.
View: Reopen with:
- The new View: Reopen with command lets you reopen the currently active file using a different custom editor
- Using the Reopen With command with the custom editor example extension
- You can use this command to switch between VS Code's standard text editor and the custom editor, or to switch between multiple custom editors for a resource
- workbench.editorAssociations setting
- Also for custom editors, the new workbench.editorAssociations setting lets you configure which editor is used for a specific resource
- The example below configures all files ending in .catScratch to open using the example custom text editor from our extension samples
View progress now shown on the view:
- We have changed progress indication for custom views to now show on each view itself, rather than at the top of the view container. This allows for a more direct connection between the long-running operation and its progress. There is also a new API option for extensions to show custom progress on views as well.
Here you can see the progress display on the GitLens extension view:
- View progress indication
- New default monospace font
We have updated the monospace font used in VS Code UI to:
- .mac { --monaco-monospace-font: "SF Mono", Monaco, Menlo, Courier, monospace; }
- .windows { --monaco-monospace-font: Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; }
- .linux { --monaco-monospace-font: "Ubuntu Mono", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace; }
- This change does not affect the font choice in the editor.
Editor:
Keep Undo stack when reopening files:
- VS Code will now keep the Undo/Redo stack of a file when the file is closed. When the file is reopened, if its contents hasn't changed since it was closed, the Undo/Redo stack will be restored.
- This is very useful if you limit the number of open editors with the workbench.editor.limit.value setting or you accidently close a file you are working on.
Explicit ordering for Code Actions on save:
- You can now set editor.codeActionsOnSave to an array of Code Actions to execute in order. You can use this to guarantee that a specific Code Action is always run before or after another one that may conflict with it.
The following editor.codeActionsOnSave will always run Organize Imports followed by Fix All once organize imports finishes:
Using editor.wordSeparators for Next Find Match:
- The command Add Selection to Next Find Match (Ctrl+D) now respects the setting editor.wordSeparators. Previously, the command would use the word definition as defined by the current file's language.
Debugging:
Call Stack view improvements:
The CALL STACK view is a complex view because it shows different types of objects (sessions, processes, threads, stack frames, and separator elements) and provides different actions for different types. In order to make it easier to differentiate the object types and to understand their supported interactions, we have started to make some visual improvements:
- Debug sessions are now decorated with an icon
- Clickable elements use the link color
- Smaller separator and presentation elements
Call Stack:
New Debug Console icon:
- We've introduced a new icon for the Debug Console and also use it in the Activity Bar when the Debug Console view is moved from the panel
Debug Console icon:
Progress feedback UI for debug extensions:
- VS Code now supports the "progress events" that were proposed for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) in the last milestone. With progress events, a debug extension can provide feedback to users for long running operations.
The VS Code debugging UI shows progress feedback in two locations:
- As a progress bar at the top of the debug view.
- As a "silent notification", which means that progress is shown "silently" (without interrupting the user) in the Status bar and can be opened into a notification by clicking on it. The notification shows more detailed information and allows cancellation of the underlying long running operation (if the operation supports cancel).
- In order to avoid flicker for short operations, the progress UI only starts after a 0.5 second delay
- The following video shows the new progress UI for a (simulated) long running operation in Mock Debug (the only supporting debug extension as of today). We expect that other debug extensions will adopt the progress support soon.
Debug progress UI:
Code completion selection in the Debug Console:
- In the last milestone, we added selection control to the "completion" request of the Debug Adapter Protocol. With this release, VS Code now fully supports the protocol addition and a debug extension can adjust the selection (or insertion point) after a completion item has been inserted.
Integrated Terminal:
Allow menu bar mnemonics to skip the terminal:
- When the new setting terminal.integrated.allowMenubarMnemonics is enabled, all keystrokes using Alt will skip the terminal so they are processed by VS Code's keybinding manager, making all menu mnemonics work at the cost of Alt hotkeys within the terminal. This setting is disabled by default.
Languages:
Auto import style in JavaScript:
- The new javascript.preferences.importModuleSpecifierEnding setting lets you control the style of imports that VS Code's auto imports use. This can be useful if you are writing code for platforms such as browsers that support native ES6 modules.
Possible values are:
- auto - The default. Uses the project's jsconfig to determine the import style to use
- minimal - Use's Node.js style imports. This shortens imports for src/component/index.js to src/component
- index - Include the index part of the path as well. This shortens src/component/index.js to src/component/index
- js - Use the full path, including the file extension (.js)
Tasks:
Faster task Quick Pick:
- The task Quick Pick used to fetch all tasks from all task-providing extensions before displaying the list of tasks to choose from. Now, VS Code doesn't fetch any additional extension tasks before showing the Quick Pick dropdown, making it much faster. Extension contributed tasks are also only fetched when you ask for them, which frees up the extension host.
- Below the TypeScript contributed tsc tasks are only fetched after the user selects the typescript extension
Task Quick Pick:
- Theme: One Dark Pro
Preview features:
- Preview features are not ready for release but are functional enough to use. We welcome your early feedback while they are under development
Settings Sync:
- We have been working the last couple of months to support synchronizing VS Code settings, extensions, and keyboard shortcuts across machines and this feature is available for preview on the Insiders release.
- In this milestone, we added synchronizing User Snippets and more UI State
Settings Sync configuration:
Theme: GitHub Sharp with Customizations:
Currently the following UI State is synchronized:
- Display Language
- Activity Bar entries
- Panel entries
- Views layout and visibility
- Recently used commands
- "Do not show again" notifications
- Note: At present, only user language snippets are synchronized. Support for global snippets will be added in the next milestone.
- We also added remote and local sync backup views for restoring your data and to aid in trouble shooting. You can access these views using the commands Preferences Sync: Show Remote Backup and Preferences Sync: Show Local Backup.
Settings Sync backups view:
Theme: GitHub Sharp with Customizations:
- To learn more, you can go to the Settings Sync documentation
Account management:
- Extensions that contribute an Authentication Provider will now have their accounts appear on a new Accounts context menu above the settings gear. You can view all accounts you are currently signed into, sign out of them, and manage trusted extensions. Signing into a Microsoft account from here is another way to start Settings Sync.
Accounts context menu:
Theme: Pop Light with Customizations:
New JavaScript debugger:
This month we've continued making progress on our new JavaScript debugger. It's installed by default on Insiders, and can be installed from the Marketplace in VS Code Stable. You can start using it with your existing launch configurations by enabling the debug.javascript.usePreview setting. Here are some new features added this month:
Link handling in the debug terminal:
- You could use the debug terminal (Debug: Create JavaScript Debug Terminal) to automatically debug any Node.js process. Now, the debugger also handles links to start debugging your browser whenever you Cmd/Ctrl+Click on links, no configuration needed.
- Animation showing clicking on a link in the debug terminal, Chrome opening, and hitting a breakpoint
- Theme: Earthsong, Font: Fira Code
Reference $returnValue in Watch and Debug Console:
- When it's available in the call stack, you can now reference a function's $returnValue in the Debug Console and Watch expressions
Visual Studio Code 1.43.2
The update addresses these issues:
- February 2020 Recovery 2 Endgame
- The specified task cannot be tracked
- [Meta] Crash with webview after updated to 1.43.0
Visual Studio Code 1.43.1
- February 2020 Recovery Endgame
- Prelaunch tasks without a command don't work the second time
- Semantic highlighting improvements for 1.43.1
- [web] Welcome views: links trigger unload
- [semantic highlighting] functions in josef.rouge-theme get wrong color
- [less] color info missing
- VSCode since 1.43 freezes on deleting line in c++ file
- When relaunching for 1.43.0 update, vscode tries to open ~80 old workspaces
Visual Studio Code 1.43.0
- Search Editors - Search and save your global search results in a full-sized editor
- Draggable sash corners - Easily change the editor layout by dragging sash corners
- Linux screen reader support - VS Code now supports the Orca screen reader
- Minimap sizing options - New options to fit or fill the minimap vertical layout
- Column selection mode - Column mode toggle lets you quickly select blocks of text
- Display whitespace on selection - Render whitespace characters only in selected text
- Convert to template string - Convert concatenations to JavaScript/TypeScript template strings
- JS/TS Call Hierarchy view - Review all calls to or from a function and drill into callers of callers
- Remote Development - Support for Windows and macOS SSH hosts, SSH connection sharing
- Settings Sync preview - Settings Sync lets you share settings and keybindings across machines
Visual Studio Code 1.42.1
- Rename preview: see pending renames in a diff view and easily accept or reject changes
- Open editors limit: set the maximum number of editors open at one time
- Panel placement: move the panel (Output, Terminal) to the left, right, or below the editor
- Folded code highlighting: quickly find folded regions with new background highlight
- Debug Console improvements: syntax highlighting, bracket matching, input history
- Define global tasks: per user tasks can be used across all your folders and workspaces
- Java extension updates: Java support for Data Breakpoints and Call Hierarchy view
- Remote Development: new Forwarded Ports view for mapping SSH and Containers ports
- New Containers tutorials: learn how to create and deploy Docker containers
- Preview features: first looks at the Timeline view, Search editor, semantic highlighting, and more
Visual Studio Code 1.42.0
- Rename preview: see pending renames in a diff view and easily accept or reject changes
- Open editors limit: set the maximum number of editors open at one time
- Panel placement: move the panel (Output, Terminal) to the left, right, or below the editor
- Folded code highlighting: quickly find folded regions with new background highlight
- Debug Console improvements: syntax highlighting, bracket matching, input history
- Define global tasks: per user tasks can be used across all your folders and workspaces
- Java extension updates: Java support for Data Breakpoints and Call Hierarchy view
- Remote Development: new Forwarded Ports view for mapping SSH and Containers ports
- New Containers tutorials: learn how to create and deploy Docker containers
- Preview features: first looks at the Timeline view, Search editor, semantic highlighting, and more
Visual Studio Code 1.41.1
- Compact folders in Explorer: Single child folders collapsed by default
- Edit left side of diff views: You can now edit both files in a difference view
- Update search results while typing: Global search results update while you type
- Problems panel improvements: Filter by problem type and limit output to the active file
- Minimap highlights errors and content changes: Quickly locate problems and changes in your file
- Terminal minimum contrast ratio: Set preferred contrast ratio for increased visibility
- HTML mirror cursor in tags: Automatic multi-cursor in matching HTML tags
- Optional chaining in JS/TS: Use the ?. operator to simplify working with nested structures
- Extract interface refactoring: Quickly extract an inline type to a TypeScript interface
- Remote - Containers extension: Better support for opening repositories in Docker containers
- Visual Studio Online: Create and connect to cloud-based development environments
Visual Studio Code 1.41.0
- Compact folders in Explorer: Single child folders collapsed by default
- Edit left side of diff views: You can now edit both files in a difference view
- Update search results while typing: Global search results update while you type
- Problems panel improvements: Filter by problem type and limit output to the active file
- Minimap highlights errors and content changes: Quickly locate problems and changes in your file
- Terminal minimum contrast ratio: Set preferred contrast ratio for increased visibility
- HTML mirror cursor in tags: Automatic multi-cursor in matching HTML tags
- Optional chaining in JS/TS: Use the ?. operator to simplify working with nested structures
- Extract interface refactoring: Quickly extract an inline type to a TypeScript interface
- Remote - Containers extension: Better support for opening repositories in Docker containers
- Visual Studio Online: Create and connect to cloud-based development environments
Visual Studio Code 1.40.2
The update addresses these issues:
- Insider build always starts language server with debug options
- Occluded windows just went blank
- Port 9229 in use by VS Code
- "Save Workspace As..." does not save with correct extension
- Extension Host broken
- Touch bar mac disabled on focus file
- Child_process results in ENOMEM error with empty options.env
- MacOS: File > Open no longer adds files to recently opened
- 1.40.0 has rendering lag and flickers when minimize/maximize window with custom title
- Leaving Full Screen or Zen Mode leads to wrong window dimensions
- Maximize button not working properly with auto-hide taskbar enabled
- WebViewPanel created with preserveFocus: true suffers from a focus problem
Visual Studio Code 1.40.1
The update addresses these issues:
- Code Editor text rendering is using grayscale
- The 'Additional Views' overflow action only shows up on hover
- Outline tree flashing at every character written
- October 2019 Recovery Endgame
- vs code won't size right on multiple monitors
- [meta issue] 1.40 update: Font/Color rendering degradation (macOS, Linux, Windows)
- terminal.integrated.windowsEnableConpty is not being respected
- Can't get out of 'Recording Keys'
- TreeError [CustomView] Data tree node not found
- SCM: decorations are getting lost at random
Visual Studio Code 1.39.2
Fixed:
- Error icons not showing up properly
- Some Octicons not working in quick pick
- Blank screen with a reinstalled 1.39.1
- VSCode starts with disabled extensions
- Webview.asWebviewUri not working in Remote
- SCM: SVN extension decorations are misaligned
- Command line error - "Option 'proxy-server' is unknown. Ignoring."
- Enable the bracket pair colorizer V2 extension for remote
- Mac touchbar debug not working
- Invisible dirty icon
- vscode://file/... does not work any longer
- Source control showing nothing
- Backslash in folder name still not handled correctly by flattened tree view
Visual Studio Code 1.39.1
- Change log not available for this version
Visual Studio Code 1.39.0
- Text selections displayed in minimap: see selection regions in the minimap overview
- Toggle region folding keyboard shortcut: quickly expand and collapse regions with Toggle Fold
- Source Control tree view: display pending changes in either a list or new tree view
- Open terminal in custom working directory: add keyboard shortcuts for specific folders
- HTML ARIA attribute reference links: links to ARIA documentation directly from IntelliSense
- CSS property completions include semicolons: semicolons added as you enter CSS properties
- CSS color variables preview: color variable completions display color swatch
- Improved column breakpoint UI: view possible inline breakpoints directly in your source code
- Inline debug actions in CALL STACK view: stay in context with debug actions on hover
- Remote Explorer updates: explorer now displays WSL distros and repository containers
Visual Studio Code 1.38.2
- Regular Expression Replace is missing from new editor
- A crash when using Navigate To with certain values
- Unable to insert a breakpoint when running on iOS device when using Hot Reload
- Error when trying to open a solution with a global.json that references a preview of .Net Core that is not installed
- Unable to pull up the emoji selector from the new editor
Visual Studio Code 1.38.1
The update addresses these issues:
- code.sh: remove wsl2 workaround
- Cannot insert a < div >, automatically corrects to < /div >
- Markdown Hover images broken
- statusbar border no longer appears [statusbar.border]
- Gap in right side of window
- Grouping quick open entries is broken
Visual Studio Code 1.38.0
- Preserve case for global search and replace - Keep letter casing across multi-file search/replace
- Settings editor string array validation - Checks min, max, enum values, and glob patterns
- Adjust cursor surrounding lines - Keep your cursor centered in the editor
- Copy and revert in the diff editor - Easily copy or restore deleted content
- Go to Line supports negative line numbers - Quickly jump to the end of a file
- MDN Reference link for HTML and CSS - Links to MDN documentation directly from IntelliSense
- Add missing await Quick Fix - Find overlooked awaits in asynchronous code
- Debugging data breakpoints - Debugger breaks when tracked values change
- VS Code icon repository - Official product icons available for extension authors
- Alpine Linux distro support - Both for the Remote WSL and Containers extensions
Visual Studio Code 1.37.1
Issues addressed:
- Recovery build has wrong icon for release notes
- July 2019 Recovery Release Endgame
- 1.37 breaks the fsprovider-sample extension
- Broken vscode.ProcessExecution in Tasks API in v1.37
- Alt+click in terminal resets scroll position and prevents click-on-link
- Certain C++ files completely freeze VSCode
- 1.37 Explorer not showing any files or folders
- Diagnostics show empty parentheses if no code specified for error (regression)
Visual Studio Code 1.37.0
- Full product icon refresh: new modern icons across all of VS Code
- Edit string arrays in the Settings UI: add to string arrays directly from the Settings editor
- Reveal search result in File Explorer: quickly jump to file locations in the File Explorer
- Show whitespace in selection: see whitespace characters just for selected text
- Find and Replace preserves casing: replace text without losing letter casing
- Terminal search UX improvements: more intuitive bottom-up search order for the terminal
- Better SCSS @import navigation: VS Code now checks more locations for SCSS files
- Remote Development tutorials: new step-by-step tutorials for working over SSH and in WSL
Visual Studio Code 1.36.1
- Addresses various issues
Visual Studio Code 1.36.0
- Hide/show status bar items: only display your preferred status bar items
- Indent guides in explorers: clearly highlights your project's folder structure
- Better terminal shell selector: easily select the default shell to use in the Integrated Terminal
- Sequential task execution: control the order of task and subtask execution
- Jump to cursor debugging: skip code execution as you jump to a new location
- Disable debug console word wrap: lets you keep debugging output to one line
- JavaScript/TypeScript nightly builds: new extension integrates JS/TS nightly builds
- New Java installer: installs VS Code, the Java extension pack, and required Java dependencies
- Remote Development (Preview) improvements: save to local file system, drag and drop files to remotes, and more
Visual Studio Code 1.35.1
Notable improvements:
- Collapse All list and tree command with Ctrl+Left keyboard shortcut
- The history of the References view can now be cleared
- When running the Format With... command, the default formatter is now pre-selected
- When debugging is paused on a line, the whole line is read out by the screen reader
- Multiple item paste in the Explorer is run in parallel for improved performance
- The Open Folder button in an empty File Explorer is scoped to folder even on macOS
Notable fixes:
- Potential data loss for files that changed on disk meanwhile after a backup was made
- Preserve picked language for files across restarts
- Completion providers with resolve methods leak memory
- URI: Should invalidate cached _fsPath when crossing platforms
- Make workbench.dialogs.useSimplified a real setting
- Clicking anywhere on the "debug console" pane should "focus" on input box
- Breakpoint lines are not correct when saving the source file after modifying the file
- Typescript task detection is now cross-platform
Visual Studio Code 1.35.0
- Updated Visual Studio Code icon: The product logo got a refresh. We hope you like it
- Go to Definition improvements: Faster navigation through multiple definitions
- Breadcrumb navigation displayed by default: Quickly go to files and symbols via breadcrumbs
- Smart selection for JavaScript/TypeScript: Expand text selection based on language semantics
- Extract to type alias TypeScript refactoring: Extract part type into its own type alias
- Integrated terminal supports true color: Correctly renders true color (24-bit) escape sequences
- Better merge conflict display: See merge conflict changes within surrounding source code
- Collapse All command for lists and explorers: One of many small but handy improvements
- Remote Development (Preview) available in Stable: You can now use the Remote Development extensions in Stable
Visual Studio Code 1.34.0
Editor:
Stable CodeLens:
- VS Code now optimistically caches CodeLens locations and restores them immediately after switching editors. This fixes an issue where CodeLens lines would shift slightly when switching between editors
Languages:
Lower rank for CSS property values with vendor prefix:
- CSS property values prefixed with dash '-' (such as -moz-grid or -ms-grid), now come after grid in auto completion
Debugging:
- debug.showSubSessionsInToolBar
- We have introduced the setting debug.showSubSessionsInToolBar which controls whether the debug sub-sessions are shown in the debug tool bar. When this setting is false, the stop command on a sub-session will also stop the parent session. This setting default is false
Tasks:
Terminate all tasks:
- The Tasks: Terminate Task command has a new option to terminal all tasks if there are multiple tasks running. If this is an action you do often, you can create a keyboard shortcut for the command with the terminateAll argument
Automatically show Problems panel:
- The new revealProblems task property allows you to automatically show the Problems panel. The property values are always, never, and onProblem
Contributions to extensions:
Preview: Remote Development:
- Note: The Remote Development extensions require Visual Studio Code Insiders
- Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment
- The extensions in the Remote Development extension pack run in the context of the remote workspace while VS Code feels like it does when you run locally
Vetur:
- The Vetur extension now offers semantic diagnostics, hover information, jump to definition, and find references for the JavaScript expression inside Vue's template interpolation region
- Other improvements include reduced memory usage and import path completion. You can learn more about them in the Vetur changelog
Extension authoring:
Multi-extension debugging:
- In this milestone, we've added support for debugging more than one extension at a time. This is useful if you are developing a set of tightly coupled or interdependent extensions
- Previously this feature was only surfaced via the command-line interface of VS Code, now the argument --extensionDevelopmentPath can be specified more than once. Typically --extensionDevelopmentPath is used in the launch configuration of an extension. When developing more than one extension, we recommend combining the individual extension projects into a multi-folder workspace and create a new launch configuration (stored in the workspace .code-workspace file) that uses multiple --extensionDevelopmentPath arguments for the individual extensions
- Please note that in this release, it is not possible to create a preLaunchTask that builds both extensions by combining the preLaunchTasks of the individual extension projects
Command links in notifications:
- It was always possible to include links in notification messages via the syntax [link name](http://link), but this only worked for links that open in a browser. Now you can also invoke a command from a link with the syntax [link name](command:). The command with the provided identifier will be triggered when the user clicks the link
Links in notifications allow for title:
- You can now add a title to links in notifications that will be shown when the user hovers over the link. The syntax is [link name](link "")
Proposed extension APIs:
Every milestone comes with new proposed APIs and extension authors can try them out. As always we are keen on your feedback. This is what you have to do to try out a proposed API:
- You must use Insiders because proposed APIs change frequently
- You must have this line in the package.json file of your extension: "enableProposedApi": true
- Copy the latest version of the vscode.proposed.d.ts file into your project
- Note that you cannot publish an extension that uses a proposed API. We may likely make breaking changes in the next release and we never want to break existing extensions
vscode.workspace.workspaceFile:
- There is a new workspace property returning the location of the workspace file. For example: file:///Users/name/Development/myProject.code-workspace or untitled:1555503116870 for a workspace that is untitled and not yet saved
Depending on the workspace that is opened, the value will be:
- undefined when no workspace or a single folder is opened.
- The path of the workspace file as Uri
- If the workspace is untitled, the returned URI will use the untitled: scheme
One use of the workspace file location is to call the vscode.openFolder command to open the workspace again after it has been closed:
- vscode.commands.executeCommand('vscode.openFolder', uriOfWorkspace);
- Note: It is not recommended using the workspace.workspaceFile location to write configuration data directly into the file. You can use workspace.getConfiguration().update() which will work both when a single folder is opened as well as an untitled or saved workspace
- Machine-specific settings
- If you have settings that allow users to customize an executable path and if these paths need to be scoped to the machine they are running on, you can now classify such settings as machine scoped. Extension authors set the scope property when contributing to the configuration extension point. Machine-specific settings can only be configured for User settings
Engineering:
Rewritten filesystem provider for local files:
- Extensions ave been able to provide their own filesystem implementations for custom resources (read more here). However, VS Code's own implementation for local files was not implemented with the same extension APIs. This resulted in subtle differences when dealing with local file resources compared to resources coming from extensions. Over the last two milestones, we rewrote our local file system provider to use the extension APIs for consistency
New documentation:
Python Azure Functions:
- There is a new Deploy Python to Azure Functions tutorial that describes how to create and deploy Python serverless Azure Functions
Miscellaneous:
Language Server Protocol:
The Language Server Protocol has proposed support for the following new features:
- Selection ranges: to compute selection ranges for an array of positions. Sent from client to server
- Call hierarchy: to compute a call hierarchy for a given symbol. Sent from client to server
- Progress: to initiate progress reporting from the server. Sent from server to client
- The new features are available in the next versions of the vscode-languageclient and vscode-languageserver npm modules
Notable fixes:
- Explorer Respects Trash Capability from FileSystemProvider
- Call Stack "Paused On Breakpoint" UI not visible for long thread names
- Terminal window crashes in Mac OS
- Debug Console render newlines unnecessary
- Scrolling in debug window is behaving strange
- Error revealing files in the explorer
- Report issue’ button on ‘Running extensions’ causes tens of duplicate issues
Visual Studio Code 1.33.1
Fixed:
- Evironment variables not expanding in tasks
- New and delete keywords no longer highlighted in C++ file
- Formatter Settings UI shows strange default
- Adopt TypeScript 3.4.3
- Unable to select first formatter in picker
- "name" property of OutputChannel has gone
- Recent update of INSIDERS Edition made COG Wheel completely disappear
- Prettier formatting causes document to jump with insiders
Visual Studio Code 1.33.0
- Easy Display Language selection: Quick Pick to choose between installed locales
- Configurable IntelliSense display: Filter out elements like keywords or remove displayed icons
- Choose default formatter: Set default document formatter by project and language
- Go to Definition locations: Open Peek view and/or navigate to primary location
- Convert to destructured parameters: New TS refactoring to use named parameter objects
- Debugging support for subsessions: See subprocesses displayed under main debug session
- Launch URI with debug session: Automatically open a browser when debugging web server code
- Install missing extension dependencies: Detect and offer to install missing dependencies
- "Remote Debugging for Node.js" topic: Learn how to attach to Node.js apps running on Azure
- Workbench: Improved Source Control view, easier list navigation with screen readers
- Integrated Terminal: ConPTY on by default on Windows, rendering performance improvements
- Languages: Disable CSS property value completions, TS improved inference and const assertions
- Extension Authoring: Finalized smart selection API, install extension command
- Engineering: Official Linux snap package, faster OSS builds with NPM package caching
Visual Studio Code 1.32.1
- Preview and apply color themes: Install and apply new theme extensions without reloading
- Keyboard shortcuts editor improvements: Modify keybinding 'when' conditions in the editor
- Problems panel hover commands: Apply Quick Fixes or open a Peek window directly from hovers
- Preferred Code Actions: Preferred (mostly likely) Code Actions support auto fixing common issues
- Debug Console customization: Modify font size, font family, and line height of the Debug Console
- Better IntelliSense for ARIA attributes: More detailed descriptions for HTML accessibility attributes
- Vue.js interpolations IntelliSense: The |
