For the last few years, Visual Studio Code has delivered new major updates each month. Now, those updates will arrive once a week, and the first weekly update has some helpful changes to AI agents.

Microsoft's June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code update brings enhanced GitHub Copilot features, Django support, and a new profiles editor to streamline your coding experience. Microsoft has started rolling out ...

New Profiler Agent uses Copilot to analyze CPU, memory, and .NET allocations and suggest fixes. Copilot App Modernization Agent helps upgrade legacy .NET projects and migrate them to Azure. Markdown ...

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol. The latest update to Visual Studio Code, ...

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat. Visual Studio Code 1.117 is available for download. The ...

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