January 2026

Welcome to the January 2026 release of Visual Studio Code. In this release, we are further evolving VS Code to make it the home for multi-agent development.

• Chat UX: chat just feels better and snappier with faster streaming, improved reasoning results, and a revamped editor inline chat

• Agent Session Management: it's now easier to delegate tasks to agents across local, background, and cloud and jump in when needed

• Agent Customization: build your own workflows using agent orchestrations, and have consistent results with Agent Skills and organization-wide customizations

• Agent Extensibility: reuse your knowledge with Claude agent support and new Anthropic model capabilities, and enjoy rich chat interactions with MCP Apps

• Agent Optimizations: agents work smarter with Copilot Memory and experience faster code search with external indexing

• Agent Security & Trust: feel confident running terminal commands with sandboxing and effective auto-approval rules

• Workbench & productivity: test your apps without leaving the editor with the new integrated browser

December 2025 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

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

December 2025 Recovery 1

The update addresses these issues.

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

December 2025

Welcome to the December 2025 release of Visual Studio Code.

Traditionally, the month of December is a time where our team focuses on cleaning up GitHub issues and pull requests across our repositories. This year, we managed to reduce our open issues by nearly 6,000 and triaged over a thousand more.

In addition to our housekeeping efforts, we have also made several improvements and feature updates across various areas of VS Code.

Happy Coding!

November 2025 Recovery 1

The update addresses these issues.

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

November 2025

Welcome to the November 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:

VS Code now includes Agent HQ, background agents and custom agents for your org.

• Agent HQ: You can use GitHub Copilot alongside your other coding agents to complete multiple tasks. Leverage background, cloud, or local agents and their relative strengths for the right job, all at the same time.
• Background agents work in their own isolated workspaces, managed for you by VS Code.
• Custom agents for organizations: Your team can now share custom agents at the org level.

October 2025 Recovery 3

The update addresses these issues.

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

October 2025 Recovery 2

The update addresses these issues.

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

October 2025 Recovery 1

The update addresses these issues.

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

October 2025

Welcome to the October 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:

AI	Productivity and UX	Enterprise
Plan complex coding tasks with the plan agent and monitor agent sessions across background agents Show more	Select text from deleted code in the diff editor Show more	Manage MCP server access with custom MCP registry Show more
Inline suggestions are now open source Show more	Experience the more modern, refreshed product icons Show more	Manage Linux devices with JSON policies Show more