Visual Studio Code 1.106 released
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.106. Let's dive into what's new in the new release. The October 2025 release brings several notable upgrades across different fronts.
First off, there's tangible progress regarding coding agents. We've landed a crucial change: an 'Agent Sessions' view. This is turned on by default and provides one place to manage all your local agent sessions; think Copilot or Codex right here in the editor, not just separately elsewhere. It's also useful for keeping track of remote ones.
The main thing with that Agent Sessions feature is how it consolidates everything. You can now easily search for specific sessions if you need, making task delegation and oversight much smoother without having to hunt down information across multiple places. Furthermore, the 'Plan agent' function is ready for use, helping developers craft detailed plans using prompts before writing code.
This tooling support means your requirements are better covered from start to finish. This tooling support provides a proactive approach to implementation.
Then there's activity happening on the cloud side of things. Copilot integration feels different now; it's moved into its own extension called 'Copilot Chat.' This keeps things streamlined for cloud agents. Alongside this, we're seeing our first steps towards direct command-line agent interaction with early Copilot CLI integration baked right into the chat view.
The delegation features feel more refined than before, too. Splitting tasks between AI and yourself is cleaner now, which probably means less friction when working across different tools or models.
And speaking of custom agents, their names have been updated to reflect this shift towards a unified 'Agent Sessions' management system in all environments. These rebranded custom agents come with richer metadata properties for files you define specifically, and the whole setup benefits from new validation features built into VS Code tooling, helping keep everything straight.
Shifting focus away from agent-specific tools, the main code editing experience received a few upgrades too. You can now select deleted lines directly in the diff editor, useful if you're reviewing changes or bisecting history where stuff just vanished. The inline suggestion system remains open source as well, which is probably good news for developers wanting to peek under the hood.
Navigation commands feel more precise now. That 'Go to Line' command doesn't just jump to line numbers anymore; it can also navigate to specific positions within a line, offering finer control when you need to pinpoint something exact in your code.
On the UI side, things look cleaner and clearer overall with updates to icons and better handling of tricky system policies in Linux environments; that's likely always been an issue but seems addressed now. It’s just smoother looking and interacting in general.
And this improvement isn't limited purely to editing; source control actions feel more integrated too. Plus notebook navigation probably got a bit easier with new commands for it.
The terminal itself also received attention. IntelliSense, the smart code completion feature, is properly implemented across all commands you type there now, not just an idea but something that works consistently in your console.
That ties back into security improvements too: authentication flows are smoother and more secure than before within VS Code, making login interactions less of a headache generally. Even specific methods like device code flow get support directly inside the editor environment.
Finally, the Python extension got its share of updates. It helps manage environments better now, a long-needed functionality that might simplify setup across projects or CI systems potentially. There's also added capability to turn AI-generated documentation into actual docstrings directly within VS Code, so you don't have to chase it elsewhere if you're using integrated tools.
This just feels like a more focused and capable environment for developers working with code today.
Release October 2025 · microsoft/vscode
Welcome to the October 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: AI Productivity and UX ...
