This is a "go live" release that can be used in production with the
understanding that you will need to update to the final stable release
once it is available.
Projects targeting .NET Core 2.1 or newer are not supported by Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.
Fixed issue where installation of the SDK for .NET Core 2.1 or newer
would cause the option to create ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web applications to
disappear.
New features around file encoding
It is now possible to configure the files.encoding as well as files.autoGuessEncoding setting per language. VS Code also now supports CP 850 and CP 865 encoding.