VS Code v1.45.1

Features

• We now have an install script for easy and automatic installation.
  • It attempts to use the OS package manager if possible.
  • See README.md#getting-started
• libstdc++ and libgcc are now bundled into Linux releases #1706
• Linux releases's glibc minimum was mistakenly reported as v2.19 in the previous release but the actual minimum is v2.17.
• icu4c is now bundled into macOS releases #1710
• Docs and FAQ are more thorough.
  • An extremely useful addition is FAQ.md#how-do-i-make-my-keyboard-shortcuts-work
• If you need an arm32 docker image right now, we recommend using linuxserver/docker-code-server (#1337)

Bug Fixes

• You can now set user-data-dir and extensions-dir in config.yaml #1676

• Fixed a regression where --install-extension was installing into the incorrect path #1713

• We made some changes to make autoupdates from v3.2.0 work again.

  • To recap we removed autoupdating in v3.3.0 and restructured
    the releases a bit which caused autoupdates on v3.2.0 to break. See #1664
  • To fix this:
    1. We added a symlink from code-server to bin/code-server to the root of the release.
    2. We now upload duplicate release assets for the release naming scheme used by v3.2.0.
       • i.e we have macos-amd64 and darwin-x86_64 as well as linux-amd64 and linux-x86_64.
  • In the next few weeks the symlinks and the duplicate release assets will be removed so
    please update your scripts to use the new release scheme.