Visual Studio Code 1.132, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular, open-source code editor, has been released. The brings improvements to built-in dictation, side chats, and support for commenting on web elements in the integrated browser.
VS Code 1.132 was released August 5. The update can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS at code.visualstudio.com.
With VS Code 1.132, the built-in multilingual dictation function lets developers dictate in multiple languages using an on-device model that follows language preference or detects the language automatically. The built-in dictation converts speech to text in chat inputs, editors, and terminals. Dictation now uses multilingual Nemotron 3.5 as the default on-device model. Plus, terminal dictation now applies shell-aware cleanup, so spoken commands preserve shell syntax.
Also in VS Code 1.132, developers can open a side chat by typing /bt in the chat input. A side chat shares the context and prompt cache of the primary chat, but allows developers to ask the agent questions about the current turn without interrupting the turn. Similarly, developers can select text in a chat response to ask contextual questions about that response.
Other new capabilities and improvements in VS Code 1.132:
