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2026

October

Modernizing the VS Code UI
October 15, 2026 Lee Murray 12 min read

September

Building the new GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions Model: Part Two
September 23, 2026 Julia Gong, Shengjie Ma, Ben Liggett, Ulugbek Abdullaev 16 min read
Building the new GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions Model: Part One
September 16, 2026 Julia Gong, Ben Liggett, Ulugbek Abdullaev 29 min read

August

Introducing the Agent Host for persistent, portable agent sessions
August 26, 2026 Rob Lourens, Connor Peet, Brigit Murtaugh 9 min read

July

MAI-Code-1-Flash: early results from real developer workflows
July 29, 2026 Faith Xu 6 min read
How Prompt Tuning Improved GPT-5.5 in VS Code
July 6, 2026 VS Code Team 9 min read

June

Iterating faster with TypeScript 7
June 26, 2026 VS Code Team 13 min read
What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us
June 19, 2026 Julia Kasper 12 min read
Use your own language model key in VS Code
June 18, 2026 Kayla Cinnamon 6 min read
- Models
- Agents
Improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
June 17, 2026 Ryan Caldwell, Bhavya U 13 min read

May

The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code
May 15, 2026 VS Code Team 12 min read

March

How VS Code Builds with AI
March 13, 2026 Pierce Boggan 13 min read
- Agents
- AI
- Engineering
Making agents practical for real-world development
March 5, 2026 VS Code Team 8 min read
- Agents
- AI

February

Building Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions
February 26, 2026 Vikram Duvvur, Gaurav Mittal, Benjamin Simmonds 9 min read
Your Home for Multi-Agent Development
February 5, 2026 VS Code Team 6 min read
- Agents
- AI

January

Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code
January 26, 2026 Harald Kirschner, Connor Peet 4 min read
- Agents
- Extensions
Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly
January 15, 2026 João Moreno 11 min read

2025

December

Introducing the VS Code Insiders Podcast
December 3, 2025 James Montemagno 2 min read
- Community
- Engineering

November

Introducing the Visual Studio Code Private Marketplace: Your Team's Secure, Curated Extension Hub 🎉
November 18, 2025 Sean Iyer 2 min read
- Extensions
- Security
Open Source AI Editor: Second Milestone
November 6, 2025 The VS Code team 4 min read
A Unified Experience for all Coding Agents
November 5, 2025 VS Code Team 8 min read
- Agents
- AI
- GitHub Copilot

October

Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key
October 22, 2025 Olivia Guzzardo McVicker, Pierce Boggan 4 min read

September

Introducing auto model selection (preview)
September 15, 2025 Isidor Nikolic 3 min read
- Models
- GitHub Copilot

August

VS Code Dev Days – Join an event near you to learn about AI-assisted development
August 26, 2025 Katie Savage, Cynthia Zanoni 4 min read
- Community
- Education
- AI

July

Command GitHub's Coding Agent from VS Code
July 17, 2025 Burke Holland 7 min read
- Agents
- GitHub Copilot

June

Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone
June 30, 2025 The VS Code team 2 min read
The Complete MCP Experience: Full Specification Support in VS Code
June 12, 2025 Harald Kirschner 3 min read

May

Enhance productivity with AI + Remote Dev
May 27, 2025 Brigit Murtaugh, Christof Marti, Josh Spicer, Olivia Guzzardo McVicker 7 min read
VS Code: Open Source AI Editor
May 19, 2025 The VS Code team 3 min read
Beyond the tools, adding MCP in VS Code
May 14, 2025 Harald Kirschner 6 min read

April

Agent mode: available to all users and supports MCP
April 7, 2025 Isidor Nikolic 7 min read

March

Context is all you need: Better AI results with custom instructions
March 26, 2025 Rob Conery, Harald Kirschner 8 min read
- GitHub Copilot
- AI

February

Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)
February 24, 2025 Isidor Nikolic 7 min read
- Agents
- GitHub Copilot
Copilot Next Edit Suggestions (preview)
February 12, 2025 Brigit Murtaugh, Burke Holland 7 min read
- GitHub Copilot
- AI
- Agents

2024

December

Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code
December 18, 2024 Burke Holland 8 min read

November

Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure (preview)
November 15, 2024 Chris Harris 5 min read
Introducing Copilot Edits (preview)
November 12, 2024 Isidor Nikolic 5 min read
- GitHub Copilot
- AI

June

GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need
June 24, 2024 Isidor Nikolic 8 min read
Using WebAssembly for Extension Development - Part Two
June 7, 2024 Dirk Bäumer 6 min read
- Extensions
- Web
- Languages

May

Using WebAssembly for Extension Development
May 8, 2024 Dirk Bäumer 12 min read
- Extensions
- Web
- Languages

April

Your Ultimate Guide to VS Code Day 2024
April 15, 2024 Reynald Adolphe 4 min read
- Community
- Education
- AI

2023

November

Pursuit of wicked smartness in VS Code
November 13, 2023 Chris Dias 14 min read

July

Shrinking VS Code with name mangling
July 20, 2023 Matt Bierner 15 min read
- Engineering
- Performance

June

Run WebAssemblies in VS Code for the Web
June 5, 2023 Dirk Bäumer 11 min read
- Web
- Extensions
- Languages

April

VS Code Day: An event for an editor?
April 13, 2023 Burke Holland 5 min read
- Community
- Education

March

Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot
March 30, 2023 Chris Dias 11 min read
- GitHub Copilot
- AI

2022

December

Remote Development Even Better
December 7, 2022 Brigit Murtaugh 8 min read
- Remote Development
- Web

November

Migrating VS Code to Process Sandboxing
November 28, 2022 Benjamin Pasero 20 min read
- Security
- Engineering

October

VS Code Community Discussions for Extension Authors
October 4, 2022 Olivia Guzzardo 4 min read
- Extensions
- Community

September

Custom Dev Container Features
September 15, 2022 Brigit Murtaugh 9 min read
- Remote Development

August

Introducing the Markdown Language Server
August 16, 2022 Matt Bierner 12 min read
- Languages
- Extensions

July

The Visual Studio Code Server
July 7, 2022 Brigit Murtaugh 4 min read
- Remote Development
- Web

May

The dev container CLI
May 18, 2022 Brigit Murtaugh 5 min read
- Remote Development

April

Using Containers to move from Local to Remote Development
April 4, 2022 Olivia Guzzardo 9 min read
- Remote Development

March

The problem with tutorials
March 8, 2022 Burke Holland 8 min read
- Education
- Remote Development

2021

November

Notebooks, Visual Studio Code style
November 8, 2021 Tanha Kabir 6 min read
- Notebooks
- Extensions

October

vscode.dev(!)
October 20, 2021 Chris Dias 8 min read
- Web
- Announcements
Webview UI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
October 11, 2021 David Dossett 3 min read
- Extensions
- Design

September

Bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster
September 29, 2021 Henning Dieterichs 27 min read

August

The Coming of Age of Notebooks
August 5, 2021 Chris Dias 5 min read
- Notebooks

July

Workspace Trust
July 6, 2021 Chris Dias 12 min read
- Security
- Editor

June

Remote Repositories
June 10, 2021 Brigit Murtaugh, Eric Amodio 11 min read
Visual Studio Code at Build 2021
June 2, 2021 Alessandro Segala 3 min read
- Community
- Education

February

Resolving extension issues with bisect
February 16, 2021 Johannes Rieken 6 min read
- Extensions

2020

December

Learning with VS Code on Chromebooks
December 3, 2020 Alessandro Segala 8 min read
- Education
- Languages

July

Development Containers in Education: A Guide for Instructors
July 27, 2020 Brigit Murtaugh 12 min read
- Remote Development
- Education
Using Dev Containers in WSL 2
July 1, 2020 Brigit Murtaugh 6 min read
- Remote Development

June

The next phase of the Go experience
June 9, 2020 Alessandro Segala 4 min read

May

Visual Studio Code at Build 2020
May 14, 2020 Alessandro Segala 4 min read
- Community
- Education
Introducing GitHub Issues Integration
May 6, 2020 Alex Ross 6 min read

March

Using Docker in WSL 2
March 2, 2020 Matt Hernandez 3 min read
- Remote Development

February

Custom Data Format: Evolving HTML and CSS language features
February 24, 2020 Pine Wu 4 min read
- Languages
- Extensions
Improving CI Build Times
February 18, 2020 Ethan Dennis, João Moreno 6 min read
- Engineering
- Performance

2019

October

Inspecting Containers with VS Code
October 31, 2019 Bowden Kelly 8 min read
- Remote Development
- Debugging
Remote SSH: Tips and Tricks
October 3, 2019 Sana Ajani 6 min read
- Remote Development

September

WSL 2 with Visual Studio Code
September 3, 2019 Matt Hernandez 5 min read
- Remote Development

July

Remote SSH with Visual Studio Code
July 25, 2019 Sana Ajani 9 min read
- Remote Development

May

Strict null checking Visual Studio Code
May 23, 2019 Matt Bierner 13 min read
- Engineering
- Languages
Remote Development with VS Code
May 2, 2019 Chris Dias 10 min read
- Remote Development
- Extensions

February

The Language Server Index Format (LSIF)
February 19, 2019 Dirk Bäumer 6 min read
- Languages
- Engineering

2018

December

First look at a rich code navigation experience
December 4, 2018 Jonathan Carter 5 min read
- Source Control
- Languages

November

Event-Stream Package Security Update
November 26, 2018 Kai Maetzel 3 min read
- Security
- Extensions

September

Visual Studio Code using Azure Pipelines
September 12, 2018 João Moreno 5 min read
- Engineering
GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code
September 10, 2018 Kenneth Auchenberg 4 min read

August

New home for the Debug Adapter Protocol
August 7, 2018 André Weinand 6 min read

July

Introducing Logpoints and auto-attach
July 12, 2018 Kenneth Auchenberg 10 min read
- Debugging

May

Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview
May 7, 2018 Amanda Silver 4 min read
- Collaboration
- Extensions

April

Bing-powered settings search in VS Code
April 25, 2018 Rob Lourens 9 min read
- Editor
- Engineering

March

Text Buffer Reimplementation
March 23, 2018 Peng Lyu 16 min read

2017

December

What's new for Chrome debugging
December 20, 2017 Kenneth Auchenberg 5 min read
- Debugging
- Extensions

November

Visual Studio Code at Connect(); 2017
November 16, 2017 Sean McBreen 3 min read
- Announcements
- Community
Introducing Visual Studio Live Share
November 15, 2017 Amanda Silver 3 min read
- Collaboration
- Extensions

October

The Icon Journey
October 24, 2017 Chris Dias 8 min read
- Editor
- Community
- Design
Integrated Terminal Performance Improvements
October 3, 2017 Daniel Imms 5 min read
- Performance
- Engineering

September

Using VS Code to Debug Java Applications
September 28, 2017 Xiaokai He 3 min read

August

Emmet 2.0 in Visual Studio Code
August 7, 2017 Ramya Rao 5 min read
- Editor
- Languages

June

Fresh Paint - Give VS Code a New Look
June 20, 2017 Wade Anderson 2 min read
- Editor
- Extensions
- Design

May

Build 2017 Demo
May 10, 2017 Chris Dias 2 min read
- Community
- Education

April

Sublime Text Extension Roundup
April 10, 2017 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Editor
- Extensions

March

Extension Packs
March 7, 2017 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Extensions
- Community

February

Extensions using CodeLens
February 12, 2017 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Editor
- Extensions
Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting
February 8, 2017 Alexandru Dima 16 min read

January

Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and Azure
January 15, 2017 Jonathan Carter 22 min read
- Languages
- Debugging

2016

December

Customize VS Code Extension Roundup
December 12, 2016 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Editor
- Extensions

November

Hot Exit Comes to Insiders
November 30, 2016 Daniel Imms 2 min read
- Editor
- Engineering
Creating a Formatter Extension
November 21, 2016 Johannes Rieken 3 min read
- Extensions
- Languages
1.7 Rollback Incident Report
November 3, 2016 Wade Anderson 4 min read
- Engineering
- Announcements

October

JavaScript Extensions Part 2
October 31, 2016 Wade Anderson 4 min read

September

JavaScript Extensions Part 1
September 14, 2016 Wade Anderson 2 min read
- Extensions
- Languages
File and Folder Icons in VS Code!
September 8, 2016 Chris Dias 4 min read
- Editor
- Extensions
- Design

August

iOS Web Debugging on Windows and Mac
August 24, 2016 Kenneth Auchenberg 3 min read
- Debugging
- Extensions
Goodbye User Voice, Hello GitHub Reactions!
August 23, 2016 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Community
Announcing Intro Videos
August 15, 2016 Wade Anderson 1 min read
- Education
Extensions Roundup - Fun with Git
August 2, 2016 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Extensions
- Source Control

June

A Common Protocol for Languages
June 27, 2016 PJ Meyer 5 min read
- Languages
- Extensions

May

Evolution of the Insiders Build
May 23, 2016 Wade Anderson 3 min read
- Announcements
- Engineering
April 2016 Release
May 9, 2016 Chris Dias 1 min read
- Announcements
Extensions Roundup
May 4, 2016 Wade Anderson 2 min read
- Extensions
- Community

April

Visual Studio Code 1.0!
April 14, 2016 PJ Meyer 8 min read
- Announcements
- Community

March

VS Code Extensions
March 17, 2016 Wade Anderson 2 min read
- Extensions
- Community
February 2016 Recovery Release
March 14, 2016 Chris Dias 1 min read
- Announcements
February 2016 Release
March 7, 2016 Chris Dias 1 min read
- Announcements

February

Introducing Chrome Debugging for VS Code
February 23, 2016 Andy Sterland 3 min read
- Debugging
- Extensions
Introducing the Insiders Build
February 1, 2016 Chris Dias 3 min read
- Announcements