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2026
GitHub suffers nearly 8-hour outage affecting core services
GitHub experienced a large-scale outage from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC on August 17, 2026, lasting 7 hours 47 minutes and affecting Issues, Pull Requests, API, Actions and Copilot. GitHub attributed the incident to Istio sidecar concurrency saturation, autoscaling that monitored only main services and ignored sidecars, central load balancer saturation with four HAProxy nodes exhausting flow limits, and a Visual Studio Code client retry defect that inflated Copilot token traffic to about 10 times normal. Most services recovered around 16:36 UTC, GitHub Actions at 18:03 UTC, and Copilot Token Service last.
2026
Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.133 update
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.133, which changes how the Agent window is accessed, adds an experimental setting allowing the Agent window to open without GitHub sign-in (initially only for Claude), and lets users switch model providers mid-session between Anthropic and Copilot models.
2020
Microsoft releases VS Code Python extension update with Debugpy 1.0
Microsoft released an October update to the VS Code Python extension, featuring the Debugpy debugger at version 1.0.
2020
Microsoft released an Edge developer tools extension for VS Code
Microsoft released an Edge browser tools extension for VS Code, combining the Elements and Network extensions so developers can use browser developer tools and inspect network requests within the editor.
2019
Visual Studio Code 1.39 adds Java support and features
The September 2019 Visual Studio Code 1.39 update added support for Java 13 through the Language Support for Java extension from Red Hat, along with new Java development capabilities.