C# 7.1 is a small release with just a few (but well-chosen) new language features; useful we think, but definitely in the minor range. It’s supported by Visual Studio 2017, starting with Update 15.3. 

Today we are releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5. You can either download it from here, or if you already have Preview installed, you’ll receive a notification that the update is available. 

We recently released a small update to Team Explorer Everywhere – a cross platform command line and Eclipse plug-in for working Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.2:

• Publish single file context menu item missing.
• Git network operations not working: Cannot spawn git-askpass.exe.
• "Visual C++ Resource Editor Package" load failed.
• Preview Transform gives error.
• Cannot type close brace.
• Object reference not set to an instance of an object when deploying Service Fabric project after update 15.8.0.
• "The given path's format is not supported" installation error.
• Task ExpandPriContent failed. Illegal characters in path.
• "Could not create instance of type System.Collections.Genertic.Iset'1[Signer]" installer error.
• Service fabric deployment fails in 15.8.0.
• Cannot create app package for Windows store.
• Incorrect code generation for strongly-typed resources.
• Keyboard binding for Italian layout.
• IntelliSense broken #9999.
• When working on a Unity project and Unity rewrites multiple project files, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity will now automatically reload the solution.
• The customer will now get a dialog to close Office applications if they are blocking the Visual Studio install and causing a failure of 1303.