• Fixed an issue that caused Xamarin.Android projects using the Xamarin.Android.Arch.Work.Runtime NuGet package to fail with "class file for com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture not found".
• Fixed Link assemblies causes app crashes if you have an EditText in VS2019 Preview 2
• Fixed error 'Some or all identity references could not be translated' when opening extension manager; fixed failure to persist some IDE settings.
• Fixed Parallel Stacks shows nonsense number of threads
• Fixed After repair, build cmake folder fails with D8050, compile using tasks.vs.json fails with "cl" is not recognized
• Fixed No longer able to group by trait in Test Explorer with VS 2019 Preview
• Fixed Some c++ code analysis warnings are not localized
• Fixed Service Fabric Project not loading
• Now correctly reports $(MSBuildVersion) as 16.2.x, instead of the erroneous 16.200.19.
• Fixed issue causing a random crash after closing GoToAll/Symbol UI.
• Fixed crash during Visual Studio sign-in.
• Fixed an issue where forms previewer on Android frequently stops responding and needs a restart.
• Added iOS Designer Xcode 10.3 support. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.9:

• SSDT: We fixed a crash in the SSIS Foreach Loop container.
• A few .NET native for UWP customer issues were fixed in .NET native tools 2.2 (UWP 6.2.4).
• We have corrected dual signing of Visual C++ Redistributable installers.

Security Advisory Notices

• A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio C++ Redistributable Installer improperly validates input before loading dynamic link library (DLL) files.
• Unity Editor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
• .NET Core NuGet Tampering Vulnerability. 

ReSharper’s shell loading has been optimized to decrease Visual Studio’s startup time. Now it is faster, and we have mostly got rid of the Visual Studio yellow notification about the slowness of starting up ReSharper. There is still a yellow box about total u 

• Overhauled memory management for vacuuming, resulting in significantly lower memory usage and running time. More on this here.
• Incremental backup support.
• Faster B-tree index scans.
• MERGE enhancements, including view support.
• New functions to extract elements from UUIDs.
• WAL improvements – up to 2x write throughput on some workloads.
• Improvements to SQL/JSON support, including JSON_TABLE.
• Bulk loading improvements and perf improvements for COPY which gains the ON_ERROR ignore option to ignore errors.
• Identity columns on partitioned tables.

Here’s a quick list of what’s new in TypeScript 4.6!

Allowing Code in Constructors Before super()
Improved Recursion Depth Checks
Indexed Access Inference Improvements
Control Flow Analysis for Dependent Parameters
More Syntax and Binding Errors in JavaScript
TypeScript Trace Analyzer
Breaking Changes
 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
- The debugger cannot continue running the process. Operation not supported. Unknown error: 0x9233000b.
- Recent Projects and Solutions not populated once executed.
- Full build every time with 15.5.
- Wrong IntelliSense errors are still shown on VS 15.5.2 for Visual Basic projects.
- VS2017 15.5.2 Unresolved references when "Allow parallel project initialization" is enabled.
- Upgrading to 15.5.2: cannot launch nor repair VS.
- VS2017 Installation issue.
- Unable to install because of BSoD.

These are the issues addressed in 15.9.15:

• Updated signing of VC Redist packages to enable continued deployment on Windows XP. This fix may have an increased chance of requiring a reboot of the machine in order to install an updated VC++ Redistributable package.
• Fixed in issue where GoToDefinition does not work for JavaScript in script blocks of cshtml files.
• Calling pmr monotonic_buffer_resource release will corrupt memory.
• Fix for HRESULT E_FAIL build error in some C++ projects when upgrading to 15.9.13

Security Advisory Notices

• Git for Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability 

Issues Fixed in 15.9.21

• Fixed a bug where the .NET Profiling tools couldn't be installed on non-enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2017 when using an offline installer.
• Fixed C++ compiler bug where a static_cast in a decltype would evaluate incorrectly. To minimize disruptions to existing codebases, in VS2017 this fix takes effect when the (newly added) /d1decltypeIdentityConversion switch is thrown.
• New Spectre mitigation options in C++ compiler: /Qspectre-load & /Qspectre-load-cf for speculative load hardening.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• A spoofing vulnerability exists when creating an Outlook Web-Addin if multi-factor authentication is enabled