released February 14th , 2023

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.4.5

• Fixed a regression in the STL that could cause copies of std::string not to be null-terminated when linking objects produced by older versions of Visual Studio 2022 with those produced by Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 or later.
• Fixed a binary compatibility break in std::async() for programs built with VS 2015, which could lead to crashes caused by an invalid_operation exception reaching a noexcept function.
• Fixed a regression in the STL that caused std::find or std::count to fail when searching for negative signed integral values in ranges of unsigned integral elements.
• Fixed a bug where returned variables would sometimes not appear in the Watch or Locals window of Visual Studio during debugging.
• Multiple statements in a single code block which contained nested calls to the compiler intrinsic function '__builtin_offsetof' could cause the C++ compiler to crash. To avoid the crash, un-nest the __builtin_offsetof intrinsic calls.
• Local variables are displayed and evaluated in Locals and Watch windows when debugging Windows Forms constructors.
• Fixed an issue where @bind:get, @bind:set, and @bind:after attribute modifiers were not recognized, causing design time errors.
• Fixed the change signature refactoring bug called out in Exception in ChangeSignatureCodeRefactoringProvider after wrong automatic closing brace placement · Issue #65298 · dotnet/roslyn (github.com).
• Fixed an issue where the terminal would cause a crash when no workloads were installed and the machine didn't have the C++ redistributable package installed.
• Resolves a problem where VS might freeze when opening a XAML file.
• Updated CPython interpreter to version 3.9.13.
• Adds Xcode 14.2 support.
• Updates .NET MAUI to 7.0.59 (SR3), see https://aka.ms/dotnet-maui-releases for release notes.
• Updates to mingit and Git for Windows package to v2.39.1.1, which addresses CVE-2022-41903

From Developer Community

• VC++ 17.4 has a problem with debugger watch
• Compiler crash in MSVC 17.4.2 'msc1.cpp', line 1592
• Solution Explorer item collapses by itself
• Unit test startup fails with an exception when a test method is renamed
• JSON Schema being written to solution folder
• Debugging Xunit tests is not able to hit breakpoints
• Getting build error after selecting automatically deploy the database project before unit tests are run option
• WPF Designer Invalid value for property handler
• VS 2022 Community Edition 17.4.2 cannot authenticate to Azure to get the subscriptions
• Git - failed to start the configured compare tool
• Symbols not loading when Azure DevOps Symbol server is enabled
• IntelliTrace can't find PDB

Security Advisories Addressed

• CVE-2023-21566 Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-21567 Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-21808 .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-21815 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-23381 Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• CVE-2022-23521 gitattributes parsing integer overflow
• CVE-2022-41903 Heap overflow in git archive, git log --format leading to RCE
• CVE-2022-41953 Git GUI Clone Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vi...2-version-1745

Posted By: Brink
15 Feb 2023