📰 Development News

• 🚧 Fixed an issue in the previous version’s updater that may prevent Loop's updates from installing. If you are prompted to install this update multiple times, please install the app manually from here.
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✨ New Features

• ✨ #963 Added the ability for specific keybinds to ignore the trigger key
• ✨ #1013 Improved WindowEngine performance by cancelling old window resize tasks if needed
• ✨ #1019 Optimized app size by only storing Liquid Glass icons for Classic and Developer variants
• ✨ #1020 F

gperftools 2.18 is out!

This release contains a number of improvements for the bazel build system, in particular for Windows. Plus a number of correctness fixes.

Notable changes:

• Correctness of C23 sized deallocation (free_sized) vs realloc has been fixed. Previously, free_sized could crash the process when used on reallocated objects. This also significantly changes the behavior of realloc. Previously, we had heuristics to avoid shrinking if the new size was at least 50% of the old size, and to pad small growths to at least 1.25x the original size. These heuristics have been removed to ensure compatibility with free_sized.
• Bazel build support for Windows has been significantly improved, now working with MinGW and MSVC.
• We now have an experimental :tcmalloc_minimal_nopatch Bazel target for Windows.
• Fast TL

• Upgraded Chromium to v144.
• Minor bug fixes.

Changelog

• Fix: 'Clean temporary files' script no longer generates a 'null' file in the working directory.

The desktop app may be flagged as a threat by Windows Defender; however, this is a false positive. This occurs because the scripts you create with WinScript can modify system settings. Rest assured, WinScript is safe, transparent, and open-source.

Changes

• Added an option to control the behavior of the Home and End keys (navigate search results or move cursor) (#683)
• Added a default path for Filters.csv instead of asking on first use
• Fixed macros not being used inside custom filter search terms (#696)
• Improved reliability of autostart check (#689)
• The user is now prevented from disabling the tray icon if the taskbar icon is not pinned (#674)
• Clarified wording about admin privileges in installer (#695)
• Updated WinGet release workflow (#700) 💖 @SublimePeace
• Improved translations via Crowdin 💖

1.3.0 adds Croatian (thanks @milotype) and Polish (thanks @rkopicki) to Pika, and improves translations across all languages.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

New features

• Croatian localization
• Polish localization
• General internationalization improvements

Updates and bug fixes

• fixed a bug where the order of "LAB" and "OpenGL" menu items were incorrect

In advance of the coming 1.25 release, enjoy this modest servicing update.
As usual, the preview channel will move to stable when 1.25 is released.

Changes

• The extraneous TerminalAzBridge executable has been removed from the Terminal package (#19528)

Bug Fixes

• The caption buttons will (finally!) dim when the window is out of focus (#19668) (thanks @Aliremu!)
• Compatibility with some popular Chinese and Japanese IMEs has been restored (#19738)
• Many of our cross-thread UI operations have been hardened against use-after-free (#19752)
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The update addresses these issues.

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