Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.9.1

Microsoft has released version 16.9.1 of Visual Studio 2019. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python and R, among others. The complete list of the changes in the 2019 edition can be found in the accompanying release notes. In version 16.9.1, Microsoft has made the following changes and improvements:

Security Advisory Notice

• CVE-2021-21300 – A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Visual Studio clones a malicious repository.
• CVE-2021-26701 – A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET 5 and .NET Core due to how text encoding is performed.

Issues Addressed in this Release:

• Fix for emission of incorrect ARM64EC metadata to OBJs.
• Fixed an issue where C++ with FixIts turned on which is the default option, would see error squiggles upon opening code.
• In some cases, C++ IntelliSense tries to use extremely large numbers of include paths and becomes non-responsive.
• Increased stability of Live Share in C++ scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where IntelliCode would stop loading symbols.
• Improves solution load and close time in scenarios when users have the new experimental Razor editor enabled.
• Fixed a crash scenario in ServiceHub that could happen after opening the Extensions and Updates dialog and then shutting down Visual Studio.
• Fixed an error that would give a message that no updates were available when checking for updates on slower machines.
• Improves performance of launching WAP projects from Visual Studio during incremental changes.
• Fixed an issue causing setup to fail launching when using the Italian locale.
• Fixed an upgrade scenario that would cause the installer to stop responding for a very long time while the .NET core tempalte cache is initialized.