August 4, 2025
VS Code 0.521.1 Release Notes
New Features
- Added a new UI for reporting bugs from within a conversation
- Redesigned threads list with improved filtering, search, and visual organization
- Added sound notification when tools require user approval
Improvements
- Added "New Thread" dropdown to the Threads panel
- New workspaces open agent mode rather than chat by default
- Fixed an issue where agent edits and autoformatters would conflict and cause edit loops
- Enhanced UI for MCP tool installations and calls
- Improved tool block expand/collapse design
- Improved thread navigation
- Added keyboard shortcut tooltips
- Made checkpoint headers clickable to toggle expansion of checkpoint content
- Made the agent less likely to kill running terminal processes
- Improved ability to navigate focus with tab/shift-tab
- Miscellaneous UI improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could corrupt conversation history
- Fixed issues in line diff count component for code edits
- Fixed some errors that caused failures to launch terminal processes
- Fixed bug where toggling agent auto mode would incorrectly switch threads
- Disabled chat message navigation when the input field is focused
- Fixed an issue where the sign-in link did not work
- Fixed an issue where we would try to connect to disabled MCP servers on startup
- Fixed crashloops
- Fixed an issue that made it impossible to upload images
- Don't play sounds when skipping tool calls
- Fixed "New Thread" dropdown being blocked by tooltips