| What's new in this version: Visual Studio Code 1.62.2
Fixed:
- Always use a command line flag together with ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE
- Git operation hangs due to empty string in $GIT_ASKPASS
- Resolve shell environment failed on 1.62.1
- 1.62.1 - Sanity testing Mac server is failing
- WSL Extension instalation failure
- SetDecorations using contentText do not render on non ASCII lines
- Custom task problemMatcher results not appearing in problems panel when problem is on the first line
- Never prompted to select a kernel in Notebooks
- Semantic highlighting flickers on 1.62.0 and later
- Editors - pathsToEditors should ignore folders
- Crash on opening large files with bracket pair colorization
- Close Remote Connection blocked due to a veto from terminal
Visual Studio Code 1.62.1
The update addresses this security:
- Always use a command line flag together with ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE
Visual Studio Code 1.62.0
Visual Studio Code for the Web - vscode.dev (Preview):
- This iteration, we released a preview of Visual Studio Code for the Web. Visual Studio Code for the Web provides a zero-install experience running entirely in your browser, allowing you to quickly and safely browse source code repositories and make lightweight code changes. To get started, go to https://vscode.dev in your browser.
- VS Code for the Web has many of the features of VS Code desktop that you love, including search and syntax highlighting, along with extension support to work on your codebase. In addition to opening repositories, forks, and pull requests from source control providers like GitHub and Azure Repos, you can also work with code that is stored on your local machine.
- Not all extensions can run when VS Code is in the browser. Extensions that are purely declarative, such as themes, snippets, or grammars, can run unmodified in the browser. However, extensions that need to run code must be updated by the extension authors. We'd like to say thank you to the extension authors that already have published their extensions as web extensions.
Workbench:
Settings editor accessibility:
We made various Settings editor accessibility improvements:
- The Settings editor scrolls back to the top after performing a search, so the user does not end up midway through the search results after each search.
- The settings scope switcher is accessible via keyboard.
- Deprecated setting text blocks display an icon. Previously, the deprecated text was distinguished from the rest of the setting text only by color.
- More UI elements within the Settings editor have the setting ID as their name.
Updated search icons:
- The search icons are now the same weight and the match whole word icon was updated to be more distinguishable from the rest.
Parameter hint highlight:
- VS Code now highlights the current parameter in the parameter hint and the color can be themed via editorHoverWidget.highlightForeground
Editor:
Improved bracket pair guides:
- We continued iterating on bracket pair guides. Horizontal lines now outline the scope of a bracket pair. Also, vertical lines now depend on the indentation of the code that is surrounded by the bracket pair.
- Bracket pair guides can be enabled by setting editor.guides.bracketPairs to true (defaults to false). We added a third option "active" to only show a bracket pair guide for the active bracket pair.
- The new setting editor.guides.bracketPairsHorizontal controls if and when to render horizontal guides (defaults to active).
- New themable colors editorBracketPairGuide.background{1,...,6} and editorBracketPairGuide.activeBackground{1,...,6} can be used to customize the color of bracket pair guides
Customizable bracket pairs:
- You can now configure bracket pairs for a specific programming language through settings. editor.language.bracketPairs can be used to configure which bracket characters should be matched. If set, editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs independently configures which bracket pairs are colorized when bracket pair colorization or bracket pair guides are enabled.
Display hovers above or below the current line:
- You can now choose between displaying IntelliSense hovers above (default) or below the current line. By setting editor.hover.above to false, hovers will render below the current line.
Unicode directional formatting characters:
- To address CVE-2021-42574, VS Code now renders Unicode directional formatting characters by default. Consider the following text snippet.
- The above text snippet contains two explicit directional formatting characters, U+202E (RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE) and U+202C (POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING). These characters can influence Unicode's Bidirectional Algorithm and could be used to craft source code that renders differently than what compilers would execute.
- The special rendering of these directional formatting characters can be turned off by setting editor.renderControlCharacters to false. The setting editor.renderControlCharacters is now true by default.
Extensions:
Verified extension publishers:
- VS Code now shows if the domains of an extension publisher are verified by the Visual Studio Marketplace
- If you are an extension author, more details about how to become a verified publisher can be found in the Publishing Extensions topic
Terminal:
New default keybindings for special characters:
- The following keybindings were added that are typically supported in other terminals:
- ctrl+shift+2: Inputs the null character (0x00).
- ctrl+shift+6: Inputs the record separator character (0x1E).
- ctrl+/: Inputs the unit separator character (0x1F).
Languages:
- Configure how HTML completes attributes:
- There is a new setting html.completion.attributeDefaultValue that lets you choose how values are filled in when an HTML attribute is completed:
- doublequotes: The value is placed in double quotes (default)
- singlequotes: The value is placed in single quotes
- empty: The value is left empty
Emmet improvements:
- The new Emmet: Update Tag command (editor.emmet.action.updateTag) updates the placeholder with the HTML tag to be updated.
- The extension also activates now when one tries to run any Emmet command. This change should fix an issue where some commands were not found when run from the Command Palette, while also keeping the activation event list more precise so that Emmet does not start up unnecessarily, such as in an empty workspace.
- For multi-root workspaces, Emmet now sources snippets from all workspace folders, rather than just the first one. As a result, custom snippets from all workspace folders will be suggested when editing an applicable file in the workspace.
Notebooks:
Find and Replace supports capturing groups:
- The Find and Replace widget in the notebook editor now supports regular expression capturing groups
- In the short video below, replace uses the first (and only) captured text ('a')
Better selection of output renderers and mimetypes:
- Notebook cells can output multiple types of data (mimetypes) that can be rendered in different ways both by VS Code itself and extensions. Previously, VS Code had basic memoization (caching) of the selected renderer for a mimetype, and you could manually configure your preferred mimetypes using the notebook.displayOrder setting. However, VS Code wasn't particularly smart about picking the best renderer for a mimetype, and preferred mimetypes had to be updated manually.
- Now, preferred renderers are cached on a per-notebook type, level in the workspace. Additionally, if you switch to view a different mimetype, that preference will be updated in-memory for the VS Code session, and you can use the Notebook: Save Mimetype Display Order command to easily update the notebook.displayOrder setting to the working preference.
Contributions to extensions:
Jupyter:
- Kernels
- In order to make it easier to identify kernels, the Jupyter extension now groups kernels in the kernel picker.
- You can now filter the list of kernels displayed in the kernel picker, either globally or on a workspace basis. This is helpful if you have a large number of kernels installed but usually only work with a subset.
- To manage the list of kernels displayed, you can use the command Jupyter: Filter Kernels from the Command Palette.
Interactive Window:
- Automatic cell creation when running the last cells in an Interactive Window using Shift+Enter can now be configured via the setting jupyter.newCellOnRunLast. If you don't want the default behavior to add a new cell, you can set jupyter.netCellOnRunLast to false.
ESLint:
- A new version of the ESLint extension has shipped. Major improvements are:
- Extended support for ESLint version 8.x.
- The ability to define the rule set that is applied during code action on save and format via the setting eslint.codeActionsOnSave.rules.
GitHub Pull Requests and Issues:
- Work continues on the GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension, which allows you to work on, create, and manage pull requests and issues. Check out the changelog for the 0.32.0 release of the extension to see the highlights.
Remote Development:
- Work continues on the Remote Development extensions, which allow you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment.
Feature highlights in 1.62 include:
- New setting remote.SSH.foldersSortOrder to sort SSH targets alphabetically or by recent use.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux indicator lets you quickly know whether you are using WSL 1 or WSL 2.
- Advanced container configuration videos covering how to persist bash history and work with monorepos.
Preview features:
TypeScript 4.5 support:
This update adds support for the upcoming TypeScript 4.5 release. The TypeScript 4.5 beta announcement post has more information about the new language and tooling features. Some tooling highlights:
- Method signature completions.
- JSX attribute completions.
- More accurate reference counts for the references CodeLens.
- To start using the TypeScript 4.5 nightly builds, install the TypeScript Nightly extension.
- Please share your feedback and let us know if you run into any bugs with TypeScript 4.5.
- Extension authoring:
- Emoji support in file decorations
- The file decorations API now supports emojis as badge texts.
MarkdownString.supportHtml:
- The new supportHtml property on MarkdownString enables rendering of a safe subset of raw HTML that appears inside the Markdown text.
- The supportHtml property defaults to false. When disabled, VS Code will strip out any raw HTML tags that appear in the Markdown text.
Engineering:
File watching changes:
- File watching in VS Code changed to a new library, thanks to the work of the Parcel team with their @parcel/watcher. We will gradually roll out this change to all users in the upcoming weeks. Linux users will be happy to learn that the files.watcherExclude now applies natively so that the number of file handles VS Code needs open for file watching can be greatly reduced.
- The existing files.legacyWatcher setting was changed to an enumeration with these values:
- on - The new file watcher will never be used.
- off - The new file watcher will always be used.
- default - The new file watcher will only be used when you open multi-root workspaces (via a .code-workspace file).
- You should not notice any difference in your day to day work, but if file watching is broken for you, please report an issue.
Progress for Electron sandbox support:
- As we continue to make the VS Code workbench ready for enabling Electron's sandbox, we made progress on moving Node.js file services out of the workbench window into a different process. The same is true for the file watcher that no longer forks from the workbench window, but from a background process. This change is enabled by default in VS Code Insiders and will be the default in Stable for our November release.
Notable fixes:
- 73061: Enumerable properties mixed with regular properties
- 130868: Emmet suggestions list missing entries after adding custom snippets.json
- 131966: Emmet unable to expand abbreviation with onclick attribute
- 135110: Support different border settings for vertical or horizontal layouts, for in-group editor splitting
Visual Studio Code 1.61.2
The update addresses these issues:
- Web: Handles may contain slashes at the end
- Focus of commit message textbox swaps when files are changed meanwhile
Visual Studio Code 1.61.1
Fixed:
- Process handles leaked by pty host on windows
- September 2021 Recovery Endgame
- High CPU Usage: Every VS Code window eats 5+% CPU, even idle, even in the background
- Empty HoverWidget is visible at startup
- New Telemetry Level should respect my prior settings
- Source Control bug when creating or changing branch in the workspace
Visual Studio Code 1.61.0
- 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
Visual Studio Code 1.60.2
The update addresses these issues:
- The GitHub.codespaces extension gets activated twice when creating a new codespace
- Bundle TS 4.4.3
- ugust 2021 Endgame Recovery 2 endgame-plan
- Codespaces: Debugging is broken
- Automatic language detection overrides openTextDocument API language parameter
- Undo stops working after focusing webview
Visual Studio Code 1.60.1
Fixed:
- npm script not work in default terminal
- Context menu command "Open in Integrated Terminal" does not use Default Profile
- Go to Symbol in Workspace
- Allow also setting the language_info in a notebook
- Show Log from Container Creation Progress notification has no effect
- SSH Remote fails to connect
- Inline-suggestion appearing at previous cursor location
- August 2021 Endgame Recovery
- v1.60: "Auto language select" feature sets "CoffeeScript" language in "Git commit" files
- Powershell console opens every time I launch VS Code with a project
- Unable to save notebook when executing a long running cell
Visual Studio Code 1.60.0
- 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
Visual Studio Code 1.59.1
Fixed:
- Notebooks cannot be opened on 1.59
- Authentication decryption error
- tasks.onDidEndTaskProcess is called too many times in VS Code v1.59
- Perma-hang/crash on M1 MBP with universal build
- July 2021 Endgame Recovery
- Stdout generated raw data file not in expected format.
- Typing repeated dots in js expands to first suggestion
Visual Studio Code 1.59.0
- 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
Visual Studio Code 1.58.2
Fixed:
- June 2021 Endgame Recovery 2
- Only acquire workspace storage locks on the remote extension host
- Remote extension will not work if it depends on a local UI one
- Terminal is tiny when extensions create and show them
- When multiple ghost text parts have line breaks, the first line of the ghost text gets deleted
- Using command line to open vscode causes code warning
- Trust and Continue dialog need two clicks on Continue to go away
- VS Code Terminal doesn't autofocus
- MacOS: Could not move terminal into editor area after first move
Visual Studio Code 1.58.1
The update addresses these security issues:
- Improves Git security with untrusted workspaces bug git important
- Don't use guessable nonces in webview
- Update distro hash
Visual Studio Code 1.58.0
- Terminals in the editor - Create or move terminals into the editor area
- Workspace Trust - Quickly customize Workspace Trust settings, disable Restricted Mode banner
- Editor scroll bar customization - Set bar visibility and width, click navigation behavior
- Markdown preview KaTeX support - Math support in the Markdown preview
- Settings editor improvements - Support for multiple checkboxes and enumeration dropdowns
- Sticky debug environment choice - Debugger remembers your previous environment choice
- Jupyter Interactive window - Run Jupyter code directly in an interactive window
- Jupyter notebook debugging - Debug Jupyter notebook code from within VS Code
- 'Open in VS Code' badge - Lets visitors quickly open your GitHub repo in VS Code
- Data Science tutorials - Learn about Jupyter Notebooks, PyTorch, and more
Visual Studio Code 1.57.1
- May 2021 Endgame Recovery
- Scrolling on mouse click
- macOS: restore Cmd+W closing the window when all tabs are closed
- 1.57.0 (macOS): window behaves different now (fullscreen & priority issues)
- "Open New External Terminal" doesn't work if no terminal settings are present
- Entire settings file got erased on new latest update. Just FYI
Visual Studio Code 1.57.0
- Workspace Trust - Extra security against code execution when browsing unfamiliar source code
- New Getting Started experience - Helps you quickly set up and learn about VS Code
- Remote Repositories - Browse and edit code without locally cloning repositories
- Terminal tabs - Tabs let you easily create, manage, and group multiple open terminals
- Edge browser debugging - Integrates the Microsoft Edge Developer Tools directly into VS Code
- JSDoc @link support - Add @link tags in your comments for fast symbol navigation
- Go to Definition for non-code files - Quickly jump to images and stylesheets
- Notebook API finalized - Notebook API for native notebook support in VS Code
- VS Code at Build 2021 blog post - Catch up with on-demand sessions featuring VS Code
Visual Studio Code 1.56.2
- C# syntax highlighting incorrect in 1.56
- Use shell/shellArgs over defaultProfile if specified
- HTML files now require an extension to run
- The default Monokai highlight color is displayed incorrectly
- No longer scaling toolbar icon
- On PC 'Delete' key not working on insiders for approx last week
- Version control icons became minuscule with latest update
Visual Studio Code 1.56.1
The update addresses these security issues:
- Do not invoke resolveWithInteraction over terminal settings
- Change grunt, gulp and jake task auto detection to be off by default
Visual Studio Code 1.56.0
- Improved hover feedback - Helps you quickly find clickable editor actions
- Terminal profile improvements - Create a custom default terminal profile
- Debugger inline values - Display variable values inline during debugging sessions
- Notebook KaTeX support - Math support in notebook Markdown cells
- Remote - Containers volumes view - Manage mounted volumes within Docker containers
- winget installation - VS Code is available via the Windows Package Manager
- New introductory videos - Videos for getting started with VS Code as well as working with C++
- Terminal tabs preview - Get a first look at managing open terminals with the new tabs view
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
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