How to use Pre-releases

[haneefdm]

Periodically, we issue pre-releases that are not automatically installed for all users. Users have to subscribe to pre-releases. Microsoft VSCode implemented a pre-release mechanism where pre-releases with odd-numbered minor releases are considered pre-releases if they are tagged as such. For instance major.6.minor would be a production release but major.7.minor could be tagged as a pre-release. Not all extensions follow this convention but we do because that is what VSCode supports. Not our choice.

Example. 1.6.2 is a production release. But, 1.7.2 may be a pre-release. We say may because it also has to be tagged as such and us as a policy do that but other extensions may not.

Here is a description of how to use Pre-releases

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_63#_pre-release-extensions

Beyond pre-releases from the Marketplace, there are releases/patches available for download at

https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug/releases

These releases contain cumulative patches to specific issues and will be rolled into the next marketplace release.