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

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 latest Visual Studio Code update adds custom instructions and reusable prompts for the Chat feature. The April 2025 release also includes better multi-window support. In addition to the ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.

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

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

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, ...

Microsoft has just released the April update for Visual Studio 2026 with a focus on cloud agent integration. Cloud agents run on remote infrastructure, enabling scalable, isolated execution, and now ...