Timeline view improvements - Compare changes across Git history timeline entries.Product Icon Themes - Personalize your VS Code icon imagery with Product Icon Themes.Persistent terminal processes - Local terminal processes are restored on window reload.Accessibility improvements - Better word navigation on Windows and roles for views and buttons.Apple Silicon builds - VS Code is now available in stable for Apple Silicon.On the Downloads page, you can find more links to architecture-specific builds for Intel or Apple Silicon, which are smaller downloads compared to the Universal package. The default download of VS Code for macOS is now a Universal build that runs natively on all Macs. Thanks to the community for self-hosting with the Insiders build and reporting issues early in the iteration. Users on Macs with M1 chips can now use VS Code without emulation with Rosetta, and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running VS Code. We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this iteration.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code as a universal binary with stable support for M1 Macs.

Visual studio code natively on m1