Visual Studio Code Version 1.64.2 now available

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:

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.

Christophe