Visual Studio Code v1.67 Changelog

This update is all about making your coding workspace cleaner and easier to manage. It matters to anyone who writes code—especially students or developers working on big projects with lots of files—because it helps you find things faster and spot mistakes more easily.

What's new

• File grouping in the Explorer: When you have files that are generated from other files (like a source file and its compiled version), the file explorer on the left side of your screen can now tuck the generated file neatly *under* the original one. It keeps your folders looking much less messy.
• Quick toggle for inlay hints: "Inlay hints" are little helpful text hints that pop up in your code to show you what a variable is, without you having to hover over it. You can now press Ctrl+Alt (or Cmd+Option on Mac) to quickly hide or show these hints whenever they get in the way.
• Drag-and-drop Markdown links: If you are writing in Markdown (a simple way to format text), you can now drag a file from your explorer directly into your text editor. VS Code will automatically create a clickable link to that file for you.
• Find All References in Markdown: You can now right-click a header, file link, or URL in a Markdown document and select "Find All References." This shows you every place in your project where that link is used, making it super easy to track things down.
• New Rust guide: Rust is a popular programming language. VS Code added a new guide to help you learn how to set it up and use it in the editor.
• Guides for Extension Creators: People who build add-ons (extensions) for VS Code now have official guidelines to help them design better, easier-to-use menus and buttons.

Improvements

• Colored brackets by default: Matching opening and closing brackets (like { } or ( )) are now colored in pairs automatically. This makes it way easier to see which brackets belong together when your code gets long.
• Better Settings search: The settings menu now has a funnel icon. Clicking it lets you filter your settings, like only showing the ones you've recently changed.
• Smarter language settings: When you change a setting so it only applies to one specific programming language (like JavaScript or Python), the settings menu now makes it much more obvious which language you are currently editing.
• Java extension upgrades: If you code in Java, the add-on for it now supports those helpful inlay hints and loads heavy background information only when needed, which keeps things running smoothly.

Fixes

• Bracket matching in scripts: Previously, the system that colors brackets got confused by certain shell scripts (like the case statements in bash) and thought some brackets were "unbalanced" or broken. This is fixed. Now, the system knows exactly which brackets to ignore, so it stops highlighting fake errors.
• Security and stability patches: This version includes a few behind-the-scenes security fixes and minor bug fixes to keep the editor safe and running smoothly.

Breaking changes

The old experimental setting for file nesting (explorer.experimental.fileNesting.operateAsGroup) was removed. Now, if you want to move or delete a whole stack of grouped files, you just collapse the group and drag or delete it as one single item. If the group is expanded, you select files one by one like normal.