Visual Studio Code Roadmap

 Visual Studio (VS) Code is a free code editor derived from open source technologies and offered as open source software. A large catalog of extensions enables it to work with most programming languages, frameworks, and services. These extensions can bring debugging and other capabilities that give VS Code much of the functionality of an integrated development environment (IDE). However, VS Code is based on different technologies than the VS IDE, which includes a more extensive set of development and testing features, albeit with licensing fees.

Product: Visual Studio Code

Licensing: Visual Studio Code Licensing

Near Term (2025–2026)

VS Code receives approximately monthly updates to address security issues and provide minor feature changes. The latest VS Code version as of May 2025 is 1.100. However, most updates that developers receive within VS Code are delivered through extensions.

New and enhanced extensions continue to arrive and in many cases VS Code support is prioritized over VS support. For example, GitHub innovations, such as updates to GitHub Copilot, often arrive first in VS Code before being offered in other IDEs.