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