Summary of What's New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.2

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Issues Fixed in 15.9.12

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.12:

• Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
• An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
• Visual Studio 2017 crashing when editing package.json.
• Opening package.json locks up Visual Studio.
• PGO Code Gen Bug - Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
• Bad code gen in recursive bucket split routine.
• Compiler optimization bug in 15.8.9.
• We have fixed a linker error LNK4020 when using PCH, /Zi, and /GL in distributed build systems, such as IncrediBuild. The C++ compiler backend now correctly associates CIL OBJs with their corresponding compiler generated PDB when generating debug info for cross-module inlining.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Vulnerability 

Security Advisory Notice for 16.6.2

CVE-2020-1108 / CVE-2020-1108.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 and .NET Core 3.1. Customers who use any of these versions of .NET Core should install the latest version of .NET Core. See the Release Notes for the latest version numbers and instructions for updating .NET Core.

CVE-2020-1202 / CVE-2020-1203 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector or the Visual Studio Standard Collector fails to properly handle objects in memory.

CVE-2020-1293 / CVE-2020-1278 / CVE-2020-1257 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly handles file operations

Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6.2

• Visual Studio 2019 16.60 hang at run or build when modified not saved in C++/CLI project
• An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualStudio.DesignTools.WpfTap.dll
• Recurring null reference when reopening documents
• "Create new project" dialog search does not find templates for third-party language providers
• IntelliSense shows that "tilde-slash" (~/) points to ASP .NET Core 3.1 project root instread of wwwroot subfolder after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
• Fixed a compiler error (error C2475: redefinition; 'constexpr' specifier mismatch) affecting std::atomic when compiled as C++/CX in C++17 mode.
• URL completion values and format was fixed in Razor views. App-relative URL format is now used again and the values in the URL completion list show files and folders rooted under app root, i.e. wwwroot.
• Fixed a crash when using snippets.
• Restore item templates that could be hidden by extensions.

• Merge Conflict: "Take Source"/"Keep Target" is missing
• Crashes when trying to debug uwp application
• Unable to select target platform azure v12 for database project
• Fixed crashes or errors that can occur when running Visual Studio after an install action that requires a reboot.
• Fixed an issue deploying Xamarin.Android apps. This peviously required a manual uninstall of the app from the device or emulator.
• This change fixes a bug where the compiler may sometimes incorrectly remove an instruction in a C++ coroutine.