June 2025

Welcome to the June 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

Chat

• Explore and contribute to the open sourced GitHub Copilot Chat extension (Read our blog post).
• Generate custom instructions that reflect your project's conventions (Show more).
• Use custom modes to tailor chat for tasks like planning or research (Show more).
• Automatically approve selected terminal commands (Show more).
• Edit and resubmit previous chat requests (Show more).

MCP

• MCP support is now generally available in VS Code (Show more).
• Easily install and manage MCP servers with the MCP view and gallery (Show more).
• MCP servers as first-class resources in profiles and Settings Sync (Show more).

Editor experience

• Delegate tasks to Copilot coding agent and let it handle them in the background (Show more).
• Scroll the editor on middle click (Show more).
  If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com. Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.

May 2025 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

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

May 2025 Recovery 1

The update addresses these issues.

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

May 2025

Welcome to the May 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

MCP

• Expand your agent coding flow with support for prompts, resources, and sampling (Show more).
• Access MCP servers that require authentication (Show more).
• Debug MCP servers with development mode (Show more).
• Publish MCP servers from an extension (Show more).

Chat

• Group and manage related tools by combining them in a tool set (Show more).

Source Control

• View files in Source Control Graph view (Show more).
• Assign and track work for GitHub Copilot Coding Agent from within VS Code (Show more).

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

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

April 2025 Recovery 3

The update addresses these issues, including a fix for a security vulnerability.

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

April 2025 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues, including a fix for a security vulnerability.

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

April 2025 Recovery 1

The update addresses these issues, including a fix for a security vulnerability.

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

April 2025

Welcome to the April 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

• Chat

  • Custom instructions and reusable prompts (more...).
  • Smarter results with tools for GitHub, extensions, and notebooks (more...).
  • Image and Streamable HTTP support for MCP (more...).

• Chat performance

  • Faster responses on repeat chat requests (more...).
  • Faster edits in agent mode (more...).

• Editor experience

  • Improved multi-window support for chat and editors (more...).
  • Staged changes now easier to identify (more...).

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

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

March 2025 Recovery 3

The update addresses these issues.

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

March 2025 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

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