Visual Studio Code v1.57 Changelog

This update is all about making VS Code safer and easier to use. It matters a lot for developers who frequently download open-source code from the internet, giving them a way to protect themselves from malicious attacks while offering better tools to manage their workspace.

What's new

• Workspace Trust: When you open a folder you aren't sure about, VS Code asks if you trust the authors. If you say no, it goes into "Restricted Mode." This stops automatic tasks, debugging, and extensions from running, which protects your computer from hidden malware. You can easily trust folders later if you know they are safe.
• Remote Repositories: You can now look at and edit code from places like GitHub directly in VS Code without having to "clone" (download a copy of) the whole project to your hard drive first.
• Terminal Tabs: If you like having multiple terminal windows open at once, you can now use tabs to organize them. You can drag and drop them, group them, and even color-code them so they are easy to tell apart.
• Edge Browser Debugging: If you are building websites, you can now use Microsoft Edge's developer tools right inside VS Code to test and fix your code.
• JSDoc @link Support: You know those helpful comments programmers leave in their code? You can now add @link tags in those comments to create clickable shortcuts that jump straight to other parts of your code.
• Go to Definition for Non-Code Files: Usually, you can right-click a piece of code and jump to where it was originally defined. Now, that works for images and stylesheets too!

Improvements

• New Getting Started Experience: There is a brand new welcome page that helps you quickly set up your environment and learn how VS Code works.
• Suggestion Preview: When the editor suggests code to type, you can now turn on a setting that shows a live preview of what that suggestion will look like right at your cursor.
• Terminal Profile Upgrades: The way you set up your terminal profiles got better. For example, your chosen default profile is now respected when VS Code restarts, and the settings menu now gives you smart text suggestions (IntelliSense) to help you fill out the right details.

Fixes

• Security Patch (CVE-2021-34529): The 1.57.1 patch update fixed a specific security flaw that the new Workspace Trust feature was designed to address, keeping your system safe from remote code execution attacks.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.