The Visual Studio Code October update was just released. Visual Studio Code is an incredibly popular open-source cross platform highly modular code editor lead by Microsoft. The highlight features of this 1.95 October release include:
- Copilot Edits – Iterate quickly on large changes across multiple files
- Copilot Chat in Secondary Side Bar – Keep Copilot Chat open and ready to-go while you work
- Multiple GitHub accounts – Log in to multiple GitHub accounts in VS Code simultaneously
- Copilot code reviews – Get a quick review pass or a deeper review of uncommitted changes
- Docstrings with Pylance – Generate docstring templates for classes or methods
- Preview settings indicator – View experimental and preview settings in the Settings editor
- Copilot extensibility – Showcasing Copilot extensibility in VS Code
Notice a trend? Four of the seven major features in this update are for Microsoft’s CoPilot integration, while the fifth is a GitHub integration feature, which is of course another Microsoft product. Given the heavily modular nature of Visual Studio Code, that all of this isn’t being implemented as extensions is disappointing. There are some other minor additions in the Visual Studio Code update that you can read about in the full release notes below.
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Visual Studio Code 1.95 October Update Release Notes
You can learn more about (and mostly hear me rant about) the October 1.95 release of Visual Studio Code in the video below.