Visual Studio Code v1.92 Changelog

This update is all about giving you more control over your workspace and keeping your tools up to date. It matters a lot to developers who want to customize their coding environment, especially those who use AI tools like Copilot or rely heavily on source control to manage their code changes.

What's new

• Default browser choice: You can now tell VS Code exactly which web browser (like Chrome, Edge, or Firefox) to use when you click a link, instead of it always using your computer's default.
• Revert Pull Requests (PRs): In source control (how developers track code changes), if you merge a PR (a proposed set of code changes) and later realize it was a mistake, you can now easily create a "revert PR" to undo those changes.
• Move Panel to top: The Panel (the area that holds your terminal, output logs, and debug console) usually sits at the bottom of the screen. You can now drag it to the top if that fits your workflow better.
• Paste files in CSS: When writing CSS (the code that styles websites), you can now drag and drop or paste an image file, and VS Code will automatically write the correct file reference link for you.
• Copilot uses GPT-4o: GitHub Copilot Chat (VS Code's AI assistant) has been upgraded to use OpenAI's GPT-4o model, making its answers faster and smarter.
• Settings URLs: You can now use special web links formatted like vscode://settings/setting.name that jump straight to a specific setting inside VS Code. This is super handy for sharing exact settings with teammates.
• Accessibility help for debugging: For users who rely on screen readers, VS Code added special help dialogs and announcements for the Run and Debug view, making it easier to hear how your code is running and when variables change.

Improvements

• Extension update controls: Managing extensions (mini add-on programs that give VS Code new features) is much better. You can now easily turn auto-updates on or off for *all* your extensions at once, or do it one by one.
• Safer extension updates: If you update an extension that previously had no executable code to a new version that *does* have executable code, VS Code will now pause and ask for your permission first. This gives you a chance to review the changes before running new code on your machine.
• Profiles Editor preview: Profiles let you save different setups of VS Code for different projects. The menu used to edit these profiles got a redesign to make it look and feel much more user-friendly. You can also now "override" an existing profile by creating a new one with the same name.
• Source control graph: When tracking changes between your local code and the main project, VS Code now shows a visual graph of incoming and outgoing changes. It also added new menus to easily fetch, pull, and push those changes.
• Lightbulb control: The "lightbulb" icon (which shows up when VS Code has a quick fix or suggestion for your code) used to sometimes block your view of the code. It now smartly hides in the margin (gutter) when it's in the way.
• Compact AI diffs: When the Copilot AI suggests code changes in the chat, the side-by-side comparison view (diff editor) is now more compact, making it easier to read.

Fixes

• Settings Editor jumping bug: Previously, when you changed a setting in the Settings menu, the screen would annoyingly jump around and change your focus, especially if you scrolled down a lot. They fixed how the menu redraws itself, so it stays perfectly still now.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.