What is New?

Note

#.# - major version - Includes new features, major enhancements, architectural changes, bug fixes. Since 2015, a major version is named in sync with the release year, for example the first major version of 2015 is 15.1.1

#.#.# - minor version - Includes bug fixes, minor enhancements.

26.1.22 (26 October 2026)

Performance

  • DVT-26314 AI Assistant: The first chat message takes a long time to process in workspaces with multiple projects

Features

  • DVT-23361 & DVT-22425 AI Assistant: Ability to attach documents to current chat session knowledge base

  • DVT-23963 & DVT-23605 AI Assistant: Ability to connect to any MCP server

  • DVT-26427 AI Assistant: Ability to create a global knowledge base for all chat sessions

Enhancements

  • vscode-2677 Report an Issue: Narrow automatic thread dumps collection to the active and the two most recent Language Servers

  • vscode-2706 Create Project from Template: Improve error handling when project creation fails

  • DVT-23008 AI Assistant: Ability to save snippets, blueprints, profiles and configuration files to any of the supported load locations

  • DVT-25509 Thread Dump Collector: Auto-generated sessions should contain more context information about the trigger

Bugfixes

  • vscode-2701 Extension is not automatically activated after creating a new build configuration file in a non-DVT project

  • vscode-2702 AI Assistant: Sometimes the language model selection is not persistent across IDE sessions

  • DVT-24013 Build config: Internal error thrown when reaching timeout while solving wildcard paths

  • DVT-26363 AI Assistant: Sometimes the ‘Stop’ button disappears while an assistant response is still being generated in the chat

  • DVT-26381 AI Assistant: Sometimes an “Internal Error” popup is displayed when switching the chat message variants

26.1.21 (12 October 2026)

This is the first release of DVT IDE for VS Code with PSS support.

The following features are available:

  • Compilation & Errors reported as you type

  • Hyperlink to declaration / Go to declaration

  • Go to Type Definition

  • References: Show Usages / Instances

  • Content Assist: context-sensitive autocomplete, code snippets

  • Rename Refactoring

  • Code Formatting

  • Workspace & File Symbols

  • Tooltips

  • Code Highlighting

  • Views: Compile Order, Compiled Files, Inspect

  • AI Assistant