Visual Studio Code: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Visual Studio Code from Microsoft

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is Visual Studio Code?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementVisual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add additional functionality.
 

The entire lifecycle of Visual Studio Code

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Visual Studio Code. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Visual Studio Code (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
XVisual Studio Code (Microsoft) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)
 

Facts and figures about Visual Studio Code

Product
Visual Studio Code
Vendor
Microsoft
Latest version
1.999.0
Number of releases
113
Number of versions
312
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
219
Licence
MIT Licence
Licence details
https://api.github.com/licenses/mit
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code
 
 

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