Visual Studio 2026 release notes:
Released November 19th, 2025
| Top bug fixes | From the community |
|---|---|
| problems with Visual Studio 2022 17.14.15 update - LINK : fatal error LNK1000 | Feedback ticket |
| (2026) Word Wrap setting keeps getting unset after opening a diff view | Feedback ticket |
| Fixed an incorrect codegen issue with ternary expressions involving expressions with arrays of different types. | Feedback ticket |
| [VS18] Debugger is not closing std stream redirected to a file | Feedback ticket |
| Significant debugger hang on first break point in solution with many solution items | Feedback ticket |
| Sanitizer Coverage Blocklist Broken | Feedback ticket |
| Incorrect instructions generated in AVX2 | Feedback ticket |
| C4319 not emitted when compiling C code | Feedback ticket |
| C++/CLI - inline namespace does not work | Feedback ticket |
| Performance Profiler does not load symbols correctly for unmanaged code in C++/CLI | Feedback ticket |
| Adds Xcode 26.1 support for the .NET for iOS / tvOS / macOS / MacCatalyst / MAUI workloads. See release notes for workload v26.1.10494. | |
| Columnstore Index containing Vector column error | Feedback ticket |
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