The lean and mean, though much like Visual Studio 2022, Version 1.64.2 was released in January and recently updated to address the following issues:

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Welcome to the January 2022 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

  • 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.
Current issues can be read here. (Links to GitHub)

The following (46:06) VS Code 1.64 Release Party video streamed live on 03/02/22 gives a useful rundown.


For those who like being at the bleeding edge, nightly Insider builds are available.

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Christophe