January 2022 (version 1.64)

Welcome to the January 2022 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• New Side Panel - Display more views at once with the new Side Panel.
• Settings editor search - Search now prioritizes whole word matches.
• Audio cues - Hear when the cursor moves to folded regions, errors, and breakpoints.
• Unicode highlighting - Avoid highlighting characters in supported languages.
• Automatic terminal replies - Create automatic responses to common terminal prompts.
• Notebook UI improvements - Search text in Markdown and output cells.
• Debug binary data view - View and edit binary data while debugging.
• Markdown path suggestions - Quickly insert relative file paths and header links.
• JS/TS surround with snippets - Insert selected code inside snippets.
• VS Code for the Web - Support for signed GitHub commits in vscode.dev and github.dev.

If you'd like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.

Watch a highlight of the new features in this version at the VS Code team's release party. You can find the on our YouTube channel.

Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.