• Team Explorer - Changes: panel not sizing to the Team Explorer window.
• Visual Studio 2017 SQL Server Object Explorer server list not persisting .
• intellisense problems with linux-x64 mode.
• Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.Parameter name: index.
• Visual Studio 2017 UNDO does not work/stops working (reported AGAIN!!!!).
• Intellisense not working for files created under WSL.
• Intellisense error: C++11 static constexpr member initialization causes "member may not be initialized".
• VS doesn't restore windows position when switching in/out of debug.
• Third party toolbox items are reloaded every time VS2019 Preview 2.2 is started.
• 'Set as StartUp Project' crashes the IDE after updating to VS2019 Preview Release 3.
• Visual Studio 2019 building Visual Studio 2017 C++ projects fail.
• Fixed Toolbox refresh issue.
• Toolbox controls are making vssettings file too big.
• SSDT: Fix for Login failed errors when performing a New Data comparison function .
• SSDT: Fix for Source is Unavailable error when performing Schema Compare .
• SSDT: Fix for Schema Compare Generate Script does not generate script .
• SSDT: Fix to improve performance of loading solutions with multiple projects.
• SSDT: Fix for SQL files not always being deleted when performing a Schema Compare between a database and a project and a delete table is executed subsequently.
• SSDT: Accessibility fixes to improve narration capabilities.
• SSDT: Replaced older sqlncli driver with new Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server. 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.9:

• Added support for Xcode 10.1 in Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin.
• Updated the Xamarin.Forms template to Xamarin.Forms 3.3.0.
• Update 15.8.6 breaks Installer Projects.
• Internal Compiler error in VS15.8 msc1.cpp line 1518.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects 0.8.8 and VS 15.8.6.
• SFINAE fails to detect matching overloaded function in preview VS preview 3 15.9.0.
• XAML Designer crash on Visual Studio close. 

The biggest improvement in this release is support for C++/CLI (AKA “managed C++”). The changes for C++/CLI are primarily in Visual Studio. 

These are the issues addressed in 15.8.1:

• Fixed an issue where Visual Studio would close unexpectedly when a browser window was closed while debugging a Web project.

Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4.1

• Fixed "the write operation failed. you must first acquire write access from dataschemamodelcontroller" error trying to publish a database
• Fix ExecutionEngineException exceptions when using SignalR on iOS devices in some configurations
• Runtime Fix "CEE_RET: value type stack" crash when interpreter was enabled with some libraries
• TypeScript 3.7.3 is now included by default, which contains several fixes for issues that effect the JavaScript and TypeScript editing experience.
• May allow mitigation of a Per-Monitor awareness related crash in Visual Studio

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2019-1349 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to too lax restrictions on submodule names

CVE-2019-1350 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to incorrect quoting of command-line arguments

CVE-2019-1351 Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to usage of non-letter drive names during clone

CVE-2019-1352 Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to unawareness of NTFS Alternate Data Streams

CVE-2019-1354 Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to not refusing to write out tracked files containing backslashes

CVE-2019-1387 Git for Visual Studio Remote Execution Vulnerability due to too lax validation of submodule names in recursive clones

CVE-2019-1486 Live Share extension URL redirection vulnerability