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Visual Studio Code 1.121

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Last updated: May 14, 2026

Welcome to the 1.121 release of Visual Studio Code.

Happy Coding!

May 13, 2026

  • Add support for pinning favorite models in the language model picker. #299776

  • Set a VSCODE_AGENT environment variable when Copilot Chat runs commands in the terminal. #311734

  • Add an "Add to Chat" option to the right-click context menu in integrated browser. #305718

  • Automatically dispose background terminals created by the chat agent once their command finishes. #287177

  • Allow extensions contributing markdown.previewScripts to declare their scripts as ES modules by using the { "path": "...", "type": "module" } object syntax. #316328

  • Expand terminal tool output compression to cover more commands, including test runners (pytest, jest, cargo test), build tools (tsc, cargo build, make), linters, Docker, and package managers. #315881

May 12, 2026

  • Add an idle-silence timer to the run_in_terminal tool that automatically promotes a sync command to background execution when it produces no output for a configurable period. #315884

  • Fix multi-line shell commands in the Agent Host terminal tool. #312922

  • Bundle a newer version of ConPTY (conpty.dll) directly with VS Code on Windows. #224488

May 11, 2026

  • Add keyboard-interactive authentication support for Agent Host SSH connections. #315588

We really appreciate people trying our new features as soon as they are ready, so check back here often and learn what's new.