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Further Key Features from earlier VS Code releases.

• VS Code Server preview - Run the same server used for Remote Development. VS Code Server blog post.
• Configure Display Language - See installed and available Language Packs in their language.
• Problems panel table view - View errors and warnings as a table to quickly filter on their source.
• Deprecated extensions - Learn whether an extension is deprecated or should be replaced.
• Extension sponsorship - Support the developers who build your favorite extensions.
• Hide Explorer files using .gitignore - Reuse your existing .gitignore to hide files in the Explorer.
• Terminal color and contrast enhancements - Find match background color, min contrast ratio.
• Git branch protection - Branch protection available right inside VS Code.
• TypeScript Go to Source Definition - Jump directly to a symbol's JavaScript implementation.
• VS Code for the Web localization - vscode.dev now matches your chosen browser language.
• Development Container specification - Learn more about the evolving dev container spec.
• Preview: Markdown link validation - Detects broken links to headers, images, and files.
• Explorer file nesting - Nest generated files under source files in the Explorer.
• Settings editor filters - Filter button brings up searches such as @Modified settings
• Bracket pair colorization - Colored bracket pairs are now enabled by default.
• Toggle inlay hints - Ctrl+Alt to quickly hide or show inlay hints in the editor.
• Drag and drop to create Markdown links - Drop files into the editor to create Markdown links.
• Find All References in Markdown - Quickly find all references to headers, files, URLs.
• Java extension updates - Now supporting inlay hints and lazy variable resolution.
• UX Guidelines for extension authors - Guidance for VS Code extension UI best practices.
• New Rust language topic - Learn how to use the Rust programming language in VS Code.
• Local history - Keep track of local file changes independent of source control.
• Settings editor language filter - Displays available language-specific settings.
• Terminal find improvements - Matches are highlighted in the terminal panel and scroll bar.
• Built-in CSS/LESS/SCSS formatters - Code formatting for CSS, LESS, and SCSS.
• JavaScript heap profiles - Collect and view JS memory allocations while debugging.
• VS Code for the Web - Drag and drop files and folders into vscode.dev.
• Remote - SSH support for Mac - Connect via SSH to Apple Silicon/M1/ARM64 machines.
• New R language topic - Learn how to use R for data science in VS Code.
• New editor history navigation - Scope Go Back/Go Forward history to editor group or single editor.
• Light High Contrast theme - Light theme for enhanced VS Code editor visibility.
• New audio cues - Audio cues for warnings, inline suggestions, and breakpoint hits.
• Drag and drop Problems and Search results - Drag results to new or existing editor groups.
• Source Control diff editor management - Automatically close diff editors after Git operations.
• Debugger lazy variable evaluation - Lazy evaluation of JavaScript/TypeScript property getters.
• Preview: Terminal shell integration - Rerun terminal commands, command status decorations.
• VS Code for the Web - Reopen recent local files and folders, improved Git integration.
• New Side Panel - Display more views at once with the new Side Panel.
• Settings editor search - Search now prioritizes whole word matches.
• Audio cues - Hear when the cursor moves to folded regions, errors, and breakpoints.
• Unicode highlighting - Avoid highlighting characters in supported languages.
• Automatic terminal replies - Create automatic responses to common terminal prompts.
• Notebook UI improvements - Search text in Markdown and output cells.
• Debug binary data view - View and edit binary data while debugging.
• Markdown path suggestions - Quickly insert relative file paths and header links.
• JS/TS surround with snippets - Insert selected code inside snippets.
• VS Code for the Web - Support for signed GitHub commits in vscode.dev and github.dev.
• VS Code for the Web has adopted the PWA model and can now be installed as a PWA on the host OS.
• Marketplace theme preview - Try out Color Themes without installing them.
• Configure Problems navigation order - Go to next error or warning by severity or file position.
• Show commands in screencast mode - Display command names along with keyboard shortcuts.
• Notebook improvements - Adjust Markdown font size, better file and URL linking support.
• Invisible Unicode highlighting - Highlights invisible or confusable Unicode characters.
• TypeScript method completions - Quickly fill in interface and override methods.
• Pre-release extensions - Try out extension new features and fixes early.
• New Java welcome experience - To help you configure and learn about Java in VS Code.
• More extensions for vscode.dev - Check out recent additions for VS Code for the Web.
• Work in a container on an SSH server - New Remote - SSH Reopen in Container command.
• VS Code for the Web: vscode.dev (Prview)
• Verified extension publishers
• Improved bracket pair guides
• Configure how HTML completes attributes
• Easier Jupyter kernel selection
• ESLint version 8 support
• Housekeeping & fixes
• Split editors within the same group - Quickly create side-by-side editors for the same file.
• Locked editor groups - Select editor types to automatically lock in an editor group.
• Better display of deleted and readonly files - Tab decorations highlight deleted and readonly files.
• Bracket pair guides - Display vertical guides to link matching bracket pairs.
• Fixed terminal dimensions - Set an active terminal's width and height.
• Jupyter Notebook improvements - Table of Contents view, full debugging support.
• Platform-specific extensions - Publish different extension versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Virtual Workspaces extension guide - Learn how to update your extension for virtual environments.
• Advanced container configuration - Tips, code samples, and videos to help configure development containers.
• Automatic language detection - Programming language detected when you paste into VS Code.
• Built-in fast bracket colorization - Fast bracket matching and colorization for large files.
• Settings editor syntax highlighting - Rich syntax highlighting for setting description code blocks.
• Custom terminal glyph rendering - Better display of box drawing and block element characters.
• Set debugging Watch values - Change watched values during a debugging session.
• Notebook improvements - Markdown link navigation, faster rendering of large outputs.
• JavaScript/TypeScript inlay hints - Inline hints for parameter names and types, and more.
• Locked editor group preview - Keep a preferred editor layout by locking the editor group.
• Python extension testing updates - Better support for test discovery, navigation, and status.
• Web extension authors guide - Learn how to update your extension for VS Code in the browser. More about GitHub.dev
• Extensions view improvements - Rich extension detail hovers, new runtime status tab.
• Settings editor validation - Quickly find editing errors for object-based settings.
• Drag and drop terminals - Move terminals across windows to both editor and panel areas.
• Built-in support for Jupyter notebooks - Open .ipynb files directly in VS Code.
• Notebook UI improvements - Display first line of collapsed cells, Undo/Redo per cell.
• Testing API finalized - Native support for running tests in VS Code with built-in Test Explorer.
• Live Preview extension - Live HTML preview within VS Code with JavaScript debugging support.
• Remote - Containers devcontainer CLI - Command line interface for working with development containers.
• Terminals in the editor - Create or move terminals into the editor area.
• Workspace Trust - Quickly customize Workspace Trust settings, disable Restricted Mode banner.
• Editor scroll bar customization - Set bar visibility and width, click navigation behavior.
• Markdown preview KaTeX support - Math support in the Markdown preview.
• Settings editor improvements - Support for multiple checkboxes and enumeration dropdowns.
• Sticky debug environment choice - Debugger remembers your previous environment choice.
• Jupyter Interactive window - Run Jupyter code directly in an interactive window.
• Jupyter notebook debugging - Debug Jupyter notebook code from within VS Code.
• 'Open in VS Code' badge - Lets visitors quickly open your GitHub repo in VS Code.
• Workspace Trust - Extra security against code execution when browsing unfamiliar source code.
• Remote Repositories - Browse and edit code without locally cloning repositories.
• Terminal tabs - Tabs let you easily create, manage, and group multiple open terminals.
• Edge browser debugging - Integrates the Microsoft Edge Developer Tools directly into VS Code.
• JSDoc @link support - Add @link tags in your comments for fast symbol navigation.
• Go to Definition for non-code files - Quickly jump to images and stylesheets.
• Notebook API finalized - Notebook API for native notebook support in VS Code.
• New Getting Started experience - Helps you quickly set up and learn about VS Code.
• VS Code at Build 2021 blog post - Catch up with on-demand sessions featuring VS Code.
• Improved hover feedback - Helps you quickly find clickable editor actions.
• Terminal profile improvements - Create a custom default terminal profile.
• Debugger inline values - Display variable values inline during debugging sessions.
• Notebook KaTeX support - Math support in notebook Markdown cells.
• Remote - Containers volumes view - Manage mounted volumes within Docker containers.
• winget installation - VS Code is available via the Windows Package Manager.
• Terminal tabs preview - Get a first look at managing open terminals with the new tabs view.
• Improvements to breakpoints - Inline breakpoints menu, and more.
• Editor status decorations - Editor tab status decorations are on by default.
• Customize keyboard shortcuts editor - Resize columns in the keyboard shortcuts editor.
• Improved remote ports management - Port forwarding autodetection, regex naming, and more.
• Terminal profiles - Define profiles in terminal to conveniently launch non-default shells.
• Notebook improvements - Multiple cell selection, and more customizable diff editor.
• Apple Silicon builds - VS Code is now available in stable for Apple Silicon.
• Accessibility improvements - Better word navigation on Windows and roles for views and buttons.
• Persistent terminal processes - Local terminal processes are restored on window reload.
• Product Icon Themes - Personalize your VS Code icon imagery with Product Icon Themes.
• Timeline view improvements - Compare changes across Git history timeline entries.
• Auto reload Notebooks - Notebooks automatically reload when their file changes on disk.
• Remote ports table view - Remote ports now shown in a table widget.
• Wrap tabs - Wrap editor tabs in the workbench instead of having a scrollbar.
• Configure tab decorations - Add editor tab status decorations.
• Customize search mode - Use the Search view or open a new Search editor.
• JavaScript debugging - Support for conditional exception breakpoints and Node.js worker_threads.
• Notebook UX updates - Outline view for Notebook cells, and breadcrumbs for improved navigation.
• Markdown preview image auto update - Preview automatically updates when images change.
• Emmet improvements - Faster performance and supporting the latest features.
• General VS Code housekeeping and GitHub Codespaces month
• Word wrap in diff editor - Both inline and side-by-side views now support word wrapping.
• New extension bisect feature - Troubleshoot which extensions are causing issues in VS Code.
• Keyboard shortcuts editor improvements - Create a keybinding from the Command Palette.
• Undo file operations in Explorer - Undo or redo file operations in the Explorer.
• New Git commands and settings - Optimize your Version Control experience with new capabilities.
• Preview editor improvements - Turn off preview editors altogether, and try new interaction models.
• Sticky tab stops for spaces - Improved experience when indenting with spaces.
• Improved word-based suggestions - Display word-based suggestions from other open files.
• Terminal configuration support - Modify terminal settings from the terminal dropdown menu.
• Resizable IntelliSense suggestions
• More responsive remote terminal experience with "local echo"
• Persistent terminal sessions for remote development
• More prominent pinned tabs
• Install an extension without synchronizing
• Status bar for suggestions
• Custom snippets in Emmet are back
• Source Control input box saves commit message history
• Browser support - Download folders (Edge, Chrome) Leveraging the new File System Access API
• Browser support - Prevent accidental close
• Linux ARM builds - VS Code is now available for both Linux ARMv7 and ARM64.
• Improved debugging experience - Improved hover and filtering in debug console.
• New JS debugger features - Toggle auto attach flows and see performance in real-time.
• Panel layout improvements - New panel maximization settings and bottom panel size.
• Webview Views support - Build extensions with webview views in the sidebar and panel.
• Source Control repositories view - Display pending changes per repository.
• Filter Debug Console output - Quickly filter and find debugging output.
• Improved JS debugger Auto Attach - "Smart" Auto Attach to Node.js scripts or test runners.
• TypeScript optional chaining refactoring - Convert multiple checks to a concise optional chain.
• JSDoc @deprecated tag support - IntelliSense clearly shows APIs marked as deprecated.
• Notebook UX updates - Cell Status bar contributions, enhanced notebook diff editor.
• Settings Sync to Stable - Settings Sync is now available for preview in stable.
• Updated Extensions view menu - Simplified menu with additional filtering options.
• New Git View submenus - Refactored overflow menu for Git in the Source Control view.
• Updated in-browser debugging - Debug in the browser without writing a launch configuration.
• Publish a public repository - Choose whether to publish to a public or private GitHub repository.
• Notebook UX updates - New Cell menu, enhanced drag and drop.
• New JavaScript debugger - Debug in the terminal, profiling support.
• Source Control unified view - All repositories displayed in a single view.
• View and sort pending changes - View files as a tree or list, sort by name, path, or status.
• Notebook UI updates - Improved UX and undo/redo support.
• Add GitHub remotes - Add GitHub remotes to your local repository.
• Automatic debugger configuration - Save and modify generated debug configurations.
• JavaScript CommonJS auto imports - Auto imports will now use require for CommonJS modules.
• JS/TS refactorings preserve newlines - Formatting is preserved during refactoring operations.
• Settings Sync preview - New Synced Machines and Data views to manage your preferences.
• GitHub Issue Notebooks - Run GitHub issue queries and display results in a custom Notebook.
• Switch editor tabs via mouse wheel - Quickly switch files in the editor using your mouse wheel.
• Faster syntax highlighting - Programming language colorization is up to 3 times faster.
• GitHub authentication support - Automatic GitHub authentication for GitHub repositories.
• GitHub Issues integration - Inline hovers and suggestions for GitHub issues and users.
• Remote Development - Container configuration recommendations, WSL 2 support.
• JavaScript debugger preview - CPU profiling, improved Auto Attach to Node.js processes.
• Accessibility improvements - Easier diff view navigation, clearer role designations for UI controls
• Timeline view - See time-series events like Git commit history from within VS Code.
• Persisted Undo/Redo stack - Undo/Redo stack preserved for reopened files
• Remote Development - Directly check out Pull Requests into containers, support for Kubernetes.
• Settings Sync preview - Settings Sync now lets you share snippets and UI state across machines.
• Column selection mode - Column mode toggle lets you quickly select blocks of text.
• Display whitespace on selection - Render whitespace characters only in selected text.
• Convert to template string - Convert concatenations to JavaScript/TypeScript template strings.
• JS/TS Call Hierarchy view - Review all calls to or from a function and drill into callers of callers.
• Remote Development - Support for Windows and macOS SSH hosts, SSH connection sharing.
• Settings Sync preview - Settings Sync lets you share settings and keybindings across machines.
• Rename preview - See pending renames in a diff view and easily accept or reject changes.
• Debug Console improvements - Syntax highlighting, bracket matching, input history.
• Define global tasks - Per user tasks can be used across all your folders and workspaces.
• Remote Development - New Forwarded Ports view for mapping SSH and Containers ports.
• New Containers tutorials - Learn how to create and deploy Docker containers.
• Compact folders in Explorer - Single child folders collapsed by default.
• Edit left side of diff views - You can now edit both files in a difference view.
• Minimap highlights errors and content changes - Quickly locate problems and changes in your file.
• HTML mirror cursor in tags - Automatic multi-cursor in matching HTML tags.
• Optional chaining in JS/TS - Use the ?. operator to simplify working with nested structures.
• Extract interface refactoring - Quickly extract an inline type to a TypeScript interface.
• Remote - Containers extension - Better support for opening repositories in Docker containers.
• This iteration was focused on triaging and fixing over 4500 GitHub issues - VS Code just keeps getting better.
• Themable window border
• Control the sizing behavior when splitting editors
• Minimap scaling and improved font rendering
• Diff editor improvements
• Text selections displayed in minimap - See selection regions in the minimap overview.
• Toggle region folding keyboard shortcut - Quickly expand and collapse regions with Toggle Fold.
• Open terminal in custom working directory - Add keyboard shortcuts for specific folders.
• HTML ARIA attribute reference links - Links to ARIA documentation directly from IntelliSense.
• CSS property completions include semicolons - Semicolons added as you enter CSS properties.
• CSS color variables preview - Color variable completions display color swatch.
• Remote Explorer updates - Explorer now displays WSL distros and repository containers.
• Preserve case for global search and replace - Keep letter casing across multi-file search/replace.
• Copy and revert in the diff editor - Easily copy or restore deleted content.
• MDN Reference link for HTML and CSS - Links to MDN documentation directly from IntelliSense.
• Add missing await Quick Fix - Find overlooked awaits in asynchronous code.
• VS Code icon repository - Official product icons available for extension authors.
• Alpine Linux distro support - Both for the Remote WSL and Containers extensions.
• Full product icon refresh - New modern icons across all of VS Code.
• Reveal search result in File Explorer - Quickly jump to file locations in the File Explorer.
• Find and Replace preserves casing - Replace text without losing letter casing.
• Terminal search UX improvements - More intuitive bottom-up search order for the terminal.
• JavaScript/TypeScript nightly builds - New extension integrates JS/TS nightly builds
• Remote Development (Preview) improvements - Save to local file system, drag and drop files to remotes, and more.
• Better terminal shell selector - Easily select the default shell to use in the Integrated Terminal.
• JavaScript/TypeScript nightly builds - New extension integrates JS/TS nightly builds
• Updated Visual Studio Code icon - The product logo got a refresh.
• Smart selection for JavaScript/TypeScript - Expand text selection based on language semantics.
• Extract to type alias TypeScript refactoring - Extract part type into its own type alias.
• Better merge conflict display - See merge conflict changes within surrounding source code.
• Remote Development (Preview) available in Stable - You can now use the Remote Development extensions in Stable.
• Launch URI with debug session - Automatically open a browser when debugging web server code.
• Install missing extension dependencies - Detect and offer to install missing dependencies.
• "Remote Debugging for Node.js" - Learn how to attach to Node.js apps running on Azure.
• Preferred Code Actions - Preferred (mostly likely) Code Actions support auto fixing common issues.
• Debug Console customization - Modify font size, font family, and line height of the Debug Console.
• Better IntelliSense for ARIA attributes - More detailed descriptions for HTML accessibility attributes.
• Vue.js interpolations IntelliSense - The Vetur extension now supports smart completions in Vue.js interpolations.
• New "Bundling Extensions" topic - Use webpack to improve your extension's load time.
• No reload on extension install - No interruptions when you install new extensions.
• Workbench - Zen Mode hides line numbers, new Screencast mode shows keystrokes.
• JS/TS callback display - Now you can see the context of anonymous callbacks.
• JSDoc Markdown highlighting - Including syntax highlighting for Markdown code blocks in JSDoc.
• Simplified debug configuration - Better defaults and Quick Pick UI for initial launch configuration.
• Run tasks on folder open - Configure tasks to run when you first open a project folder.
• Multiline search - Search across files with regex multiline expressions.
• File icons in IntelliSense - Quickly distinguish file types in IntelliSense.
• Improved Loaded Scripts view - Displays related resources such as original source files.
• Project level snippets - Tune your snippet collection per workspace.
• Jump to last edit - New command to go to the location of your last edit.
• Settings editor - New Settings editor UI to discover, search, and modify VS Code settings.
• Breadcrumbs improvements - Symbols highlighted when navigating with breadcrumbs.
• New Terminal menu - Combined menu for creating terminals and managing tasks.
• JSON conditional evaluation - Support for 'if', 'then', and 'else' schema keywords.
• Built-in Loaded Scripts view - Loaded Scripts Explorer now available for debug extensions.
• Better JS/TS error reporting - Concise, clear messages with relevant source code links.
• Terminal column selection - Alt+click to select blocks of text in the integrated terminal.
• Breadcrumbs - Breadcrumb navigation lets you jump to symbols and files in your workspace.
• Grid editor layout - Custom horizontal and vertical editor layout.
• Portable Mode - Run or copy your VS Code setup from a USB thumb drop or file share.
• Unused variable detection - Unused variables are greyed-out in your JavaScript/TypeScript files.
• Move to new file refactoring - Easily pull classes and functions into their own files.
• Update imports on move/rename - Automatically update import paths in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Run Code Actions on save - Run actions like Organize Imports when you save.
• NPM script explorer - Quickly find, run, and debug NPM scripts in your project.
• Cross file error, warning and reference navigation - Move quickly around your workspace.
• Convert to ES6 refactoring - New Code Actions to convert to ES6 classes and modules.
• Preview: Organize JS/TS imports - Remove unused and sort remaining imports.
• Auto attach to process - Automatically attach the debugger to running Node.js processes.
• Logpoints - Inject logging without changing source code or restarting your debug session.
• Integrated Terminal splitting - Work with multiple open terminals at once.
• New Notifications UI - Easily manage and review VS Code notifications.
• Markdown preview scrolling - Markdown preview now supports bidirectional scrolling.
• Visual Studio Code logos - The Stable version is now blue again and green for the Insiders version on windows. You can read all about our icon journey in this blog post.
• Multi-root workspaces released to Stable - Group a logical set of folders into a single workspace.
• Vertical panels - Dock panels (Terminal, Output, or Debug Console) to the right of your editor.
• Git indicators in the Explorer - See pending file changes in the File Explorer.
• Inline pending change review - View pending changes and perform partial commits in the editor.
• Several performance improvements - Faster Windows start-up and editor performance tuning.
• Auto imports for JS/TS - Relevant imports are added as you call local symbols.
• Extract local variable for JS/TS - Refactor a new local variable based on your selection.
• Install @types for TypeScript - A new Quick Fix adds missing @types files to your project.
• Source code folding improvements - Collapse region markers and off-side language blocks.
• Integrated Terminal performance - Terminal rendering is up to 45 times faster.
• Automatic import suggestions - See module and path import suggestions while coding.
• 64-bit builds are now available on Windows for the Stable release
• Now with Emmet 2.0 support - VS Code's Emmet Documentation
• JavaScript & TypeScript refactorings for Extract method and Extract function.
• Which includes Type checking for JavaScript files
• The easiest way to enable type checking in a JavaScript file is by adding // @ts-check to the top of a file. See the Release notes for more on @ts-check.
• Implementer CodeLens for TypeScript - See who implements an interface or abstract class in a CodeLens window.
• Keyboard shortcuts editor - New keyboard shortcut editor to easily rebind commands to your preferred shortcuts.
• Minimap - Minimap gives you a high level overview of your source code.
• Welcome page - Whether you are a new or returning user, the Welcome page helps get you started quickly.
• Interactive Playground - Try out VS Code's advanced editing features without creating files or a project.
• Synchronized Markdown Preview - Coupled view of a Markdown preview and its editor.
• Format on Paste - Format source code as soon as you bring it into your project.
• Single file debugging - Debug without a configuration file to enable quick debugging of single files.
• Inline variables display - See variable values inline while debugging.
• Expanded Node.js debugging configurations - Easily debug Mocha tests, gulp tasks and even Yeoman generators.
• Improved task running support - Run multiple commands from the same task.
• Faster Integrated Terminal - We improved the integrated terminal's performance and Windows support.