VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.143 makes the Copilot harness the default for new sessions, adds a preview of side-by-side model comparison and an experimental cleanup for inactive agent worktrees.

Socket reports two malicious VS Code themes in a GlassWorm-linked cluster, one hiding a Windows downloader and one a Solana-resolving loader, months after a coordinated takedown.

Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.

Visual Studio Code 1.139 extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote hosts and speeds up large agent session lists by up to 12x, Microsoft says.

Yeeth Security found 'Solidity Pro' VS Code extensions that evolved from a delayed Cloudflare-Worker dropper into a Telegram-based wallet and credential stealer targeting web3 developers.

Visual Studio Code 1.132 advances its multi-window Agent Host, lets developers annotate browser elements for agents, and switches dictation to an on-device multilingual model.

Visual Studio Code 1.128 lets a single Claude agent-host session hold multiple parallel chats and moves Copilot Vision to general availability.

Google's new Apache-2.0 VS Code extension connects a local editor to managed Jupyter Workbench instances on Google Cloud.

The June 3 release adds cross-machine chat session sync, a Research Agent preview, 1M-token context windows, and a two-hour delay on extension updates.

VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code moves to weekly stable releases starting with version 1.111, adding an Autopilot mode that lets AI agents operate autonomously, while Google simultaneously launches a similar auto-approve feature in Gemini Code Assist with stark security warnings.