VS Code: Weekly Recap - Security & Chat Enhancements
This week brought significant security improvements and chat functionality enhancements, with 4 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits focused on authentication, file handling, and user experience improvements.
Duration: PT2M23S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-05-24T10:01:48Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
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Good morning. This is your VS Code weekly recap for May 17th through 24th, 2026.
Four PRs merged and 30 additional commits this week, with a strong focus on security hardening and chat feature development.
Starting with fixes: The team resolved an issue with Copilot's customization updates during terminal steering operations. Previously, the system was incorrectly emitting empty customization blocks that confused the language model. The fix now preserves frozen system prompts instead of signaling false removals.
Infrastructure updates included two PRs addressing build validation. The team excluded MXC SDK binaries from version info sanity checks, as these signed binaries don't include ProductName resources. A follow-up commit resolved related build failures. Additionally, Copilot CLI smoke tests were updated to use existing…
Several major commits enhanced security and functionality. The team implemented secure storage for MCP OAuth client secrets, moving them from plain-text configuration files to the OS secret storage service. Users now see a codelens interface for managing secrets, with proper masking and deletion options.
Chat improvements were significant this week. The agent…
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