Release date: November 12, 2025

Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap

Welcome to the October 2025 release of Visual Studio Code.

This releases brings significant updates across three key areas:

• Agent HQ is your single view to kick off, monitor, and review agent sessions, whether they're local or remote, from Copilot or OpenAI Codex
• Security and trust help you stay in control and confidently

November 6th, 2025 by the VS Code Team

In May , we announced our initial plan to make VS Code an open source AI editor, and in June , we reached our first milestone by open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension.

While chat was a significant step forward, an important part of our AI functionality still remained: the inline suggestions that appear as you type. Today, we're reaching that next milestone in our journey: inline suggestions are now open source .

One extension, same

November 5, 2025 by Burke Holland, @burkeholland

OpenAI had a big year: they shipped the GPT-5 and GPT-5 Codex models, which were available in VS Code on day one through the standard model picker. But they also launched Codex, their coding agent, available as both a CLI tool and a VS Code extension . And it was a huge hit with developers.

If we had to pick one word to describe the past year, it would probably be "Agent".

Agents

October 22, 2025 by Olivia Guzzardo McVicker , Pierce Boggan

We know that model choice is important to you. Our team has been hard at work making the latest models like Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT 5 available to you on the same day they were announced. But we've also heard your feedback that you want support for even more models in VS Code, be it locally or in the cloud.

In March, we released the bring your own key (BYOK) functionality to let

Release date: October 9, 2025

Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap

Welcome to the September 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

• OS integration

  • Get notified about task completion and chat responses (Show more)
  • Native authentication experience on macOS (Show more)

• Developer productivity

  • Resolve merge conflicts with

September 15th, 2025 by Isidor Nikolic , @isidorn

Faster responses, a lower chance of rate limiting, and 10% off premium requests for paid users - auto picks the best available model for each request based on current capacity and performance. With auto you can’t choose a specific model, auto handles that for you. Auto model selection in Chat is being rolled out in preview to all GitHub Copilot users in VS Code, starting with the individual plans.

How auto model selection works

Release date: September 11, 2025

Downloads: Windows: x64 Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap

Welcome to the August 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

• Model flexibility

  • Let VS Code select the best model (Show more)
  • Contribute models through VS Code extensions (Show more)

• Security

  • Confirm edits for sensitive