Release Process

This page describes how we use branches and tags with every new release.

Example

1. During endgame, a release branch is created: release/1.10.
2. VS Code is functionally and smoke tested with a build from that branch.
3. Any critical issues should have fixes delivered to both main and release/1.10 and properly verified with step 2.
4. When there are no more additional critical issues, a release tag 1.10.0 is created.
5. VS Code is built from the 1.10.0 tag and shipped to customers.
6. Any further recovery builds should be from commits on the release/1.10 branch and patch versions should be used: 1.10.1, 1.10.2, etc.