vscode

Welcome to the June 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

Chat

• Explore and contribute to the open sourced GitHub Copilot Chat extension (Read our blog post).
• Generate custom instructions that reflect your project's conventions (Show more).
• Use custom modes to tailor chat for tasks like planning or research (Show more).
• Automatically approve selected terminal commands (Show more).
• Edit and resubmit previous chat requests (Show more).

MCP

• MCP support is now generally available in VS Code (Show more).
• Easily install and manage MCP servers with the MCP view and gallery (Show more).
• MCP servers as first-class resources in profiles and Settings Sync (Show more).

Editor experience

• Delegate tasks to Copilot coding agent and let it handle them in the background (Show more).
• Scroll the editor on middle click (Show more).
  If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com. Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.