Issues Fixed in 15.9.23

• Fixed C++ compiler bug for proper folding of inline variable dynamic initializers. Ported from the VS 2019 16.0 release.
• Security improvements in vctip.exe.
• A change to enable Enterprise IT administrators and deployment engineers to configure tools like Microsoft Update client & SCCM to determine applicability of VS2017 updates hosted on Microsoft Update Catalog & WSUS.

Security Advisory Notices

• .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability 

Rider 2020.1.2 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.2 Bugfixes Are Available! 

After almost two years, the wait is nearly over. The API has been frozen, and the countdown to Deno 1.0, officially scheduled for release on May 13, has begun. 

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 3 

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3 

Fixed In This Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

• Modified the find "List View" to work with the VsColorOutput extension.
• Fixed a regression introduced with version 16.5 where use of default indexed properties with value-types caused an internal compiler error.
• Modified find in files to preserve user settings between Visual Studio 2019 sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.
• Fixed an issue with find when doing a regex search a pattern that did not contain regex special characters.
• Fixed the button placement in find in files tool window when its in a docked position. Changed alignments for better experience in docked mode.
• Fixed an issue where the find list view did not navigate to results when enter was hit.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when "preview selected files in find results" is turned off.

Security Advisory Notice

CVE-2020-0899 Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-0900  Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-5260  Git for Visual Studio Credential Leak Vulnerability due to insufficient validation on URLs

Issues Fixed in 15.9.22

• VS2017 C++ sometimes set wrong exception frame.

Security Advisory Notices

• Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• Git for Visual Studio Credential Leak Vulnerability due to insufficient validation on URLs 

• Fixes issue when entering wrong credentials while trying to connect to a remote Mac build host.
• Fixed an inability to open some types of files.
• Fixed an issue resulting in a failure to add an Apple Developer account with two-step authentication.
• Fixed a crash in watchOS applications when creating GC thread.
• Fixed regression that disallowed exponential floats of the form 1e5f.
• Fixed an issue preventing opening files that are opened in external applications such as Word or Excel.