January 2022 (version 1.64)

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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 recording of the event 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.