Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.8.5

Microsoft has released a fifth update for version 16.8 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. Version 16.8 adds support for .NET 5.0, among other things. In version 16.8.5, Microsoft has made the following improvements:

Security Advisory Notice

• CVE-2021-1639 TypeScript Language Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Visual Studio loads a malicious repository containing JavaScript or TypeScript code files.
• CVE-2021-1721 .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
  A denial-of-service vulnerability exists when creating HTTPS web request during X509 certificate chain building.
• CVE-2021-24112 .NET 5 and .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  A remote code execution vulnerability exists when disposing metafiles when a graphics interface still has a reference to it. This vulnerability only exists on systems running on MacOS or Linux.

Issued Addressed in this Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.5

• Fixed an issue where x86 Microsoft.VCLibs Appx installed under ExtensionSDKs updated with correct signature.
• Fixed a memory leak when using C++ DesignTime features.
• Fixed an issue where an exception would occur if a password is not remembered when importing an existing database into an SSDT project.
• Fixed an issue where the publish button is disabled the first time customers publish .NET Core projects to a folder or other hosting targets.
• Fixed a hang that occasionally occurred when developers opened the publish profiles view page.
• Adds Xcode 12.4 support.

Items From Developer Community

• Fixed an issue where .sqlproj is not updating with changes.
• Visual Studio 2019 crashes with OOM failures on Chromium solutions.
• Bug in optimization compiler of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.6
• Visual Studio crashes when Adding New Item -> Table on a Database project.
• VSDIIUnregisterServer is slowing Visual Studio 2019 down.
• Unexpected Visual Studio 2019 crash when docking or splitting windows.