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 ...

Microsoft has released VS Code 1.123 with a new Research Agent, AI session syncing, Chronicle search, browser upgrades, and ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2026 now supports Git Pull Request reviews inside the IDE, plus new theme color controls in version 18.7.