August 25, 2025
VS Code 0.540.1 Release Notes
New Features
- Added turn summaries to provide concise overviews of conversation context
- Added an experimental setting to control the implementation used for terminal support
Improvements
- Added a keyboard shortcut for ask a question mode
- Improved some tooltips
- Allowed using j/k keys to navigate up and down in menus
- Improved handling of MCP tools with long outputs
- Miscellaneous UI improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Stripe integration
- Fixed issue preventing feedback forms from opening
- Fixed lag in chat input that was affecting typing performance
- Fixed rare issue causing menus to get stuck
- Fixed a regression preventing some common UI components from rendering
- Fixed an issue that caused the model picker not to open
- Fixed issue with closing dropdown menus
- Fixed a bug stopping the tools settings page from loading
- Fixed one cause of the "selected text exceeds the allowable limit" errors
- Fixed an issue with enhance prompt
- Fixed an issue that would cause the Augment panel not to load