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