VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before extensions auto-update to newer versions when automatic updates are enabled.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 has drawn sharp criticism for automatically adding a “Co-Authored-by: Copilot” tag to Git commits by default, even for some users not actively using Copilot. The ...

VS Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills support, enabling Copilot to load workspace-defined skills on demand. Chat sessions are now organized around agent sessions, with a revamped session picker ...

AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.30.0 adds a new Tool Catalog for discovering, configuring, and managing agent tools, including local stdio MCP servers and tools from the public Foundry catalog. A new Agent ...

VS Code agents are now in Stable preview, and the 1.122 update removed the GitHub OAuth requirement from BYOK, letting defense, healthcare, and finance developers run fully air-gapped AI-assisted ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.110, an ...

Visual Studio Code 1.124 brings more autonomous AI agents, cross-device session support, browser history, and new enterprise controls.

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Microsoft has just released the April update for Visual Studio 2026 with a focus on cloud agent integration. Cloud agents run on remote infrastructure, enabling scalable, isolated execution, and now ...