Visual Studio Code Moves to a Weekly Update Schedule

With the release of Visual Studio Code 1.111 last night, Microsoft has moved its lightweight code editor to a weekly update schedule.

“Welcome to the 1.111 release of Visual Studio Code, the first of our weekly Stable releases,” the release notes explain. “This release further enhances the agent experience.”

Before this, Microsoft updated Visual Studio Code once each month, with the monthly update being named after the previous month. For example, it released the February 2026 update for Visual Studio Code, version 1.110, on March 4 last week.

Visual Studio Code 1.111 adds several agent related features, including:

• Agent permissions that let you adjust the autonomy level of your agents for each session.
• Autopilot (Preview) so your agents can iterate autonomously until they complete their task.
• Agent-scoped hooks (Preview) that let you attach pre- and post-processing logic for an agent without affecting other chat interactions.
• Agent troubleshooting to help troubleshoot agent behavior and customizations with debug events snapshots.

If you’re already using Visual Studio Code, you will get this and future updates automatically. You can also download Visual Studio Code from the Visual Studio website. And if a weekly update cadence isn’t fast enough for you, you can try Visual Studio Code Insiders and get nightly builds.