Source code editor: Visual Studio Code 1.103 brings support for GPT-5
VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in reasoning, programming and chat.
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Microsoft has released the July update of its free source code editor Visual Studio Code 1.103. In this version, it can already use the features of OpenAI's newly released GPT-5 language model in the form of a public preview. In addition, developers can now set checkpoints in the chat to return to a previous state.
GPT-5 now available as a preview in GitHub Copilot
As OpenAI's most advanced language model, GPT-5 is intended to bring updates for several areas that are relevant for developers: GPT-5 is intended to improve reasoning as well as coding and chat.
GPT-5 support is currently running as a public preview for GitHub Copilot and will be made available to all paying Copilot customers – not only in Visual Studio Code, but also on github.com in GitHub Copilot Chat and in the mobile version GitHub Mobile. To access it in VS Code, developers select GPT-5 within the chat view in the model picker.
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Admins of Copilot Enterprise and Business must first allow GPT-5 support in the Copilot settings. Users within the organization can then select the new language model in VS Code.
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Another new feature in chat is that checkpoints can now be used to return to a previous chat status and undo changes. As Microsoft explains, this should be particularly helpful when editing multiple files within a chat session. Restoring to a checkpoint can also be undone.
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Checkpoints are enabled by default and can be controlled with the chat.checkpoints.enabled setting.
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Other updates in this VS Code release include improved accessibility, configuring the autostart behavior for MCP servers and reworking the tool picker. Full details of the new features can be found in Microsoft's announcement post.
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