Added

• Emacs navigation key-bindings support.

• Adds support for setting urgency and persistency to notifications. Script
  function notification() takes new arguments: '.urgency' (low, normal, high,
  critical), '.persistent' (toggle persistent notification)

Changed

• Updates icon font from Font-Awesome 6.7.2.

• On Windows, the main window is shown when starting the application using
  the program icon (#2965).

• Calling exit() script function prints "Terminating server" on stderr
  instead of stdout.

Fixed

• Fixes item selection with Ctrl+Space (#2850).

• Fixes confirming exit if any commands are running.

Welcome to the March 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:

• Agent mode

  • Agent mode is available in VS Code Stable. Enable it by setting chat.agent.enabled:true (more...).
  • Extend agent mode with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tools (more...).
  • Try the new built-in tools in agent mode for fetching web content, finding symbol references, and deep thinking (more...).

• Code editing

  • Next Edit Suggestions is now generally available (more...).
  • Benefit from fewer distractions such as diagnostics events while AI edits are applied in the editor (more...).
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What's New

• Simplified app icon design
• High performance metal shader in Settings sidebar, for fun
• Fix finder extension (Required to be sandboxed) - #232
• Fix checkbox outline in light mode, fix checkbox background
• Fix Settings toggles in light mode being transparent
• Cleanup old sentinel plist in launch agents if it still exists
• Replace shell MDLS process with CoreServices API for getting app metadata

Language

• Stabilize upcasting trait objects to supertraits.
• Allow safe functions to be marked with the #[target_feature] attribute.
• The missing_abi lint now warns-by-default.
• Rust now lints about double negations, to catch cases that might have intended to be a prefix decrement operator (--x) as written in other languages. This was previously a clippy lint, clippy::double_neg, and is now available directly in Rust as double_negations.
• More pointers are now detected as definitely not-null based on their alignment in const eval.
• Empty repr() attribute applied to invalid items are now correctly rejected.
• Inner attrib

• Added a new clink.scroll_offset setting which controls how many lines to show above or below the selected item in popup lists or the clink-select-complete command (default is 3).
• Changed clink set name to include the default value of the named setting.
• The Antares clinkprompt now allows configuring the characters for showing the previous command's exit code (refer to the Antares.clinkprompt file for details).
• The clink-diagnostics and clink-diagnostics-output bindable commands also show the current *.clinkprompt custom prompt file, if any.
• Fixed a problem where Esc could leak or corrupt history undo lists when used after searching history (the problem existed since v0.1 in 2012).
• Fixed the clink-show-help command to s

What's New in Version 1.7.1

This release fixes a crash when running virtual machines on macOS 15.4 hosts.

This is a preview build of WinGet for those interested in trying out upcoming features and fixes. While it has had some use and should be free of major issues, it may have bugs or usability problems. If you find any, please help us out by filing an issue.

New in v1.11

• Experimental support for DSC v3 processing
• Dropped support for running on 32-bit ARM

What's Changed

• Build in parallel by @florelis in #5283
• Remove support for arm32 by @florelis in #5290
• Add validation option for portable installer type in archives by @Trenly in #5237