Built-in local file history 📜

Anytime a file is saved, a new entry appears in the “Timeline” view. You can name entries & compare them, restore them, or delete them.

To try this out, run the command “Local History: Create Entry”

Improvements to terminal search 🔎

Now, when you’re searching in the terminal, all matches will be highlighted and have corresponding annotations for each result in the scroll bar.

You customize the highlight colors via the terminal.findMatch... settings.

Debug JS w/ heap profiles

The JavaScript debugger now lets you capture and visualize heap profiles to better understand where and how memory is being allocated.

Drag & drop in VS Code Web 📁

You can drag and drop local files or folders in http://vscode.dev in browsers like Edge and Chrome.

Check it out right now ➡️ http://vscode.dev

New Update 🎉

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_67

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First look at Pyscript in VS Code

New Update 🎉

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_68

New Update 🎉

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_69

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New Update 🎉

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_70

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New Update 🎉

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_71

You can now open the merge editor directly from files with conflicts. A file that has a conflict will now automatically show an Open in Merge Editor button to transition between the text and merge editors.

The merge editor and inline experience can be used together. When the merge editor opens, you can get the previous experience with a single click in the editor toolbar.

The FFmpeg shared library that ships as part of VS Code previously had only support for the FLAC codec. With v1.71, the library has been updated to support the following list of codecs and containers.

- Vorbis
- Flac
- H.264
- VP8
- WAV
- MP3
- Ogg

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