Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.7.6

Microsoft has released version 15.7.6 of Visual Studio 2017. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python, and R, among others. You can read the entire laundry list of changes from the 2017 edition in the accompanying release notes† The changes in this release are as follows:

What’s New in 15.7.6

This release contains the following improvements and enhancements:

• This release now installs Java Development Kit 8, Update 181 (JDK version 8u181).

Top Issues Fixed in 15.7.6

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.6:

• Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 does not report the install state in a specific registry location.
• In 15.7 users may see extensions load without all of their assets and cause VS to crash. This has been addressed for 15.7.6.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 crashes when opening a solution.