Visual Studio Code v1.124 Changelog

This update is all about making your AI coding assistants work faster and more independently. If you use VS Code to build apps and rely on AI to help you write or fix code, this release saves you from babysitting the AI. You can now queue up tasks, let the AI figure out when it's done, and easily switch between different AI projects without losing your place.

What's new

• Background AI requests: Instead of waiting for an AI chat session to load before you can type the next one, you can now press Alt+Enter to send a request in the background. The text box clears out but keeps your settings, so you can immediately type the next request while the AI works on the first one.
• Keyboard navigation for AI sessions: If you have a lot of AI chats going at once, you can now quickly jump between them. You can press Ctrl+R to search a list of all your chats, use Ctrl+Tab to cycle through them, or press Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9 to jump straight to a specific chat window.
• Built-in browser history: VS Code has a web browser built right into it. It now remembers the pages you've visited, so when you start typing a web address, it will suggest sites you've already been to.
• Make new folders easily: When you go to open a folder on your computer, you can now type the name of a brand-new folder right in the search box and hit Enter to create it instantly.
• Close everything at once: Just like closing a bunch of text files at once, there is a new command to close all your AI chat sessions at the same time.

Improvements

• Smarter Autopilot: "Autopilot" is a mode that lets the AI do things without asking you for permission every single time. It is now turned on by default. There is also a new "Advanced Autopilot" that uses a small AI model to read the chat and actually figure out if the task is truly finished, rather than just stopping randomly or looping forever.
• Better session memory: If you close the AI window or restart VS Code, it now remembers exactly what you were looking at. It brings back your open chats, their sizes, and which one you were actively typing in.
• Wider editor view: When you open a file inside the AI window, there's a new little arrow button you can click to hide the side panels. This gives you more screen space to read your code, and you can click it again to bring the panels back.
• Single-file code comparisons: When checking changes the AI made to your code, it used to open a complex multi-file view. Now you can turn on a setting to just look at one file at a time, making it easier to focus on specific fixes.

Fixes

• The release notes mention minor patches (updates 1.124.1 and 1.124.2) that fix general issues, but no specific major bugs were detailed in the main notes.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.