Visual Studio Code 1.95 October Update / News / October 30, 2024 / 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 filesCopilot Chat in Secondary Side Bar Keep Copilot Chat open and ready to-go while you workMultiple GitHub accounts Log in to multiple GitHub accounts in VS Code simultaneouslyCopilot code reviews Get a quick review pass or a deeper review of uncommitted changesDocstrings with Pylance Generate docstring templates for classes or methodsPreview settings indicator View experimental and preview settings in the Settings editorCopilot extensibility Showcasing Copilot extensibility in VS CodeNotice a trend? Four of the seven major features in this update are for Microsofts 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 isnt 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.Key LinksVisual Studio Code HomepageVisual Studio Code 1.95 October Update Release NotesYou can learn more about (and mostly hear me rant about) the October 1.95 release of Visual Studio Code in the video below.