Visual Studio Code 1.98, the February release of the IDE and code editor, was released!

The release added 2 new AI models, GPT 4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, to choose from when using Copilot, and allows to change the model for inline suggestions.

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The new release added notebook support in Copilot Edits (though experimental), removed the limit to attach 10 files to chat prompt, removed the client-side rate limit of 14 interactions per 10 minutes, and added text search, file search, and more tools for the codebase search.

VS Code 1.98 also added collapsed mode for Next Edit Suggestions (preview). The features is disabled by default, and can be enabled either by configuring editor.inlineSuggest.edits.showCollapsed, or from the NES gutter indicator menu.

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For Copilot Chat, user can now attach images and interact with images in chat prompt. So far, only JPEG/JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP image formats are support. And, only GPT 4o models support this feature, while support with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash will be rolled out soon.

For Linux, the custom title-bar that was introduced in last release now is default!

The release also has significantly improvement to the terminal shell completions. There are now new setting to precisely control when quick suggestions should be presented, and detailed command completions for bash, zsh, and PowerShel commands.

And, it now supports absolute paths, command aliases, as well as showing $CDPATH entries as completions when using cd command.

Other changes include:

• Custom instructions with .github/copilot-instructions.md generally available.
• Smoother authentication flows in chat.
• Attach problems from the Problems panel to chat prompt.
• TypeScript context for inline completions (Experimental)
• Custom instructions for pull request title and description
• New Settings editor search algorithm (Preview)
• New activeEditorState window.title variable.
• Support drag and drop in peek view.
• Discard untracked file will move it to Trash if possible.
• Diagnostics commit hook (Experimental)
• Inline diff view for notebooks (experimental)
• Task re-run action.
• Debug inline values hover.
• TrypeScript 5.8.2, and more, see the official release note for details.

How to Get Visual Studio Code 1.98

VS Code provides official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS which are available to download in its website via the link below:

For Ubuntu Linux, besides installing the official deb and snap packages, there’s also Flatpak package available for choice. And for beginners, here’s a step by step guide shows how to install it in Ubuntu.