These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.7:

• Crashes when expanding variables!.
• /DEBUG:FASTLINK + C7 + PCH crashes debugger.
• Native C++ application crashes because of stack corruption with VS 2017 15.9.2.
• Incorrect Release Mode code.
• Xamarin Unobserved Task Exception WebRequest.
• Link /SOURCELINK option seems to do nothing. This fixes Source Link for Managed C++ Debugging.
• Fixed an issue with corruption of AVX/MPX/AVX512 registers while Debugging.
• Update of Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDestkop framework packages for C++ UWP DesktopBridge applications adding support for ARM64.
• Corrected incorrect version of VCToolsRedistVersion in Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props.
• Corrected unsigned embedded dll for VC Redist installers.
• SSDT/Web Tools: We fixed an issue where SQL LocalDB was not installed on Polish, Turkish, and Czech locales.
• SSDT: We fixed an issue affecting SQL Server Analysis Services (Method not found exception when clicking on UI).
• SSDT: We fixed an accessibility issue which was causing the contents of a table not to be visible in the result window when using High-Contrast mode.

Security Advisory Notices

• WorkflowDesigner XOML deserialization allows code execution.
• .NET Framework and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.4:

• Green squiggles and light bulb with "Macro in skipped region" message.
• F7 does not switch to code.
• F7 does not build anymore.
• F7 build does not work.
• LINK : error : Telemetry event upload failed: 'Failed to open connection to VCTIP'.
• AXML file doesn't open after update.
• F7 no longer toggles between the designer and the code.
• XAML Editor Error: Window is not supported in WPF project.
• WinForms View.ToggleDesigner does not work as it used to.
• Toggle designer key binding lost.
• F7 does not start a new build.
• F7 no longer toggles between Designer and Code views.
• There is a problem with structure definition in C language.
• Provisioning a new SQL Server and new SQL DB in a different region than the App Service plan fails.

Git Security Vulnerability

We also fixed a security vulnerability in Git that was disclosed by the Git community. The vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user clones a malicious repository. This blog post has more information. 

StructureMap 4.0 went live to Nuget today with CoreCLR support, better performance, far better conventional registration via type scanning, and many improvements specifically targeted toward StructureMap integration into ASP.Net MVC 5 & 6 applications. 

Announcing Windows Server 2022—now in preview 

• WMI Provider MSI still failing to install in 16.6
• View History on context menu in Solution Explorer doesn't do anything
• Cannot generate shim for X509Certificate2 with Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0
• Add Controller and Add New Scaffolded Item dialogs are not showing all data contexts after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
• Cannot open new json file
• About Microsoft Visual Studio frozen.
• Visual Studio 2019 16.6.0 Microsoft Fakes Issue
• VSSDK IVsHierarchy Regression in VS 16.6.x
• Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.1)- ARM64 memcpy crashes when accessing unaligned uncached memory
• Add script to SQL Server Database project does not open User Scripts list
• Fakes generation with ref argument
• Frequent soft hang with Code Analysis callstack in Open Folder project
• Visual Studio Class Designer dark theme support
• Added support for Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) in .NET Core projects
• Separate IntelliCode team completions model acquisition from model production.
• Addressed an issue where users may have experienced critical update or installation failures due to the WMIProvider package that would block use of the IDE. Failures in this component no longer block use of the IDE.
• Fixed a problem causing the product to stop responding when working with Xamarin projects on certain scenarios.
• Fixed a bug where VS would crash when attempting to decrypt an invalid UWP code-signing certificate

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.5:

• VSX1000: No enough information has been provided to MSBuild in order to establish a connection to a Remote Server.
• Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable for ARM64 is not available via visualstudio.com.
• VC Runtime Redistributable Update for VS 15.9 deletes Registry Key. This fix may have an increased chance of requiring a reboot of the machine in order to install an updated VC++ Redistributable package.
• Incorrect codegen in managed c++ with List to List assignment.
• Can't connect to mac build host after Visual Studio 15.9.4 update.
• Resource directories missed in incremental builds with AndroidAarLibrary items.
• Lots of external assembly references - JNI ERROR (app bug): local reference table overflow (max=512).
• The Unity Editor has been updated to 2018.3. For more information, please visit the Unity website.
• SSDT: We enabled SQL projects to build schemas that have non-clustered columnstore indexes on an indexed views.
• SSDT: We fixed a significant performance issue in the schema compare tool when generating a script.
• SSDT: We fixed the schema drift detection logic in the schema compare tool which forced a new comparison to reenable scripting and publishing actions.

Security Advisory Notices

• A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Visual Studio when the C++ compiler improperly handles specific combinations of C++ constructs. 

• Update to the latest Apache Subversion 1.9 release.
• New VisualSVN Server PowerShell cmdlets.
• Other significant improvements related to various VisualSVN Server features.

SQL Server 2022 T-SQL Enhancements 

Securing SQL Server with SQL Secure