Customers on an older servicing baseline must upgrade to a more current servicing baseline before the end of that one year to remain in a supported and secure state. When Microsoft designates a minor release as a Visual Studio 2019 servicing baseline, the Support Lifecycle Database will reflect the appropriate dates for support. This is described further below and in the Microsoft Support Service Pack Lifecycle Policy. These additional acquisition points will provide administrators and larger development teams more flexibility and control in how and when they advance their organization to the latest updates.Įnterprise and Professional customers who choose to remain on a particular older supported servicing baseline should be aware that support for that servicing baseline will continue for only one year after the release of the next servicing baseline. We will also make all servicing releases available on the Microsoft Catalog in case of need to restore to a prior configuration.
Customers can install the latest release of a servicing baseline to remain secure and in support. We will now declare multiple minor version updates as supported “servicing baselines”. So, as a benefit to our Enterprise and Professional customers using Visual Studio 2019, we are increasing the availability of supported and older products. We realize that sometimes large organizations can't adopt our product updates as quickly as we recommend. Support Options for Enterprise and Professional Customers
You can find the older versions of Visual Studio to either install or update to on My., and you can find updates on the Microsoft Catalog. You can also download the latest recommended release from.
This will install the latest recommended release. Visual Studio 2019 will notify you that an update is available by popping a notification icon in the bottom border bar of the IDE. See also the Servicing Policy for Visual Studio for Mac. For more information about our updates, see the Visual Studio Release Rhythm.įor the best and most secure product experience, we strongly encourage and recommend that all customers to always use the latest release of Visual Studio. Security fixes ship in both minor and servicing updates. For example, using the version 16.1.5, “.1” denotes the minor version update, and “.5” denotes the servicing update. The minor and servicing levels are denoted by the second and third digit respectively in the version number. Visual Studio is serviced through both minor version updates that includes significant new features, and through servicing updates that provide targeted cumulative bug fixes for existing features in the product. For more information, search the Support Lifecycle Database. The first 5 years of Mainstream Support provide feature updates, platform updates, security updates, and functionality fixes, and the second 5 years of Extended support provide security updates. Visual Studio 2019 follows the Microsoft Product Fixed Lifecycle Policy of 10 years.