• VS is more responsive when running Git operations.
• Debugging large solutions with /debug:fastlink PDBs is more robust. Changes in the PDB/DIA lead to reduced latency and a 30% reduction in heap memory consumption in the VS debugger that used to cause crashes.
• C++ compiler bugfixes:
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer incorrectly sinking a function call past a store to a variable used in a __finally handler.
  • Fix for the SSA optimizer sometimes incorrectly analyzing memory loads from locations with negative offsets.
  • Fix for the optimizer incorrectly transforming a pre-incremented loop into a post-incremented loop. This was found compiling the ICU project.
• Microsoft bumped up the Java™ Development Kit 8 to Update 172 (JDK version 8u172). 

For the first time ever, our customers will be able to experience the Windows they know with all the apps, and peripherals they require, on a mobile, power efficient, always-connected cellular PC.  

 PleaseWait is a small Javascript library that shows a beautiful loading page for your SPA while it loads

In 2015, two engineers at Google designed a new compression algorithm called Brotli that can have a better compression without spending more time. Brotli is already supported by the most browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.

services.AddResponseCompression(options =>
{
   options.Providers.Add<BrotliCompressionProvider>();
   options.MimeTypes = ResponseCompressionDefaults.MimeTypes.Concat(new[] { "image/svg+xml" });
});

app.UseResponseCompression();

The Windows Package Manager is a tool designed to help you quickly and easily discover and install those tools that make your PC environment special. By using the Windows Package Manager, from one command, you can install your favorite tool: winget install <tool> 

Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox Quantum uses less memory than the competition 

Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. JetBrains Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.