By Paul Krill
Visual Studio Code 1.89, the April 2024 release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with capabilities including enhanced branch switching and middle-click paste support.
The update, downloadable from the project website, was announced May 2. Enhanced branch switching addressed a long-standing feature request to save and restore editors when switching between source control branches. Developers can use the scm.workingSets.enabled setting to enable this capability.
The new VS Code release also lets developers get a quick preview of an image or video in Markdown by hovering over the image or video path. Developers do not have to open the full Markdown preview capability. Also in this release, Microsoft has improved how the code editor handles header renaming in cases where a Markdown file has duplicated headers.
Other features in Visual Studio Code 1.89:
