Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor includes voice commands such as: Just say “Hey Code” to launch GitHub Copilot Chat. ”
But on one Linux blog, the editor suddenly said, Ended support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – “Movement cause problems For a large number of developers. ”
In VS Code 1.86 (also known as the “January 2024” update), Microsoft increased the minimum build requirement for the popular remote development tool for text editors to “glibc 2.28”, while Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses glibc 2.27. They will no longer work.
Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported by Canonical until 2028 (via ESM), but major glibc upgrades are unlikely. So this “breaking change” is exactly breaking the workflow…
This (quite impactful) change was not notified before, during, or after VS Code updates (which are installed automatically in most cases), so affected developers were caught off guard. It seems like it was. and The update was pushed to an Ubuntu 18.04 machine). In fact, most people discovered this issue only after the update was installed and their attempts to connect to the remote server failed. The resulting error message mentions the deprecation and Link to FAQ Check the VS Code website for workarounds (i.e. downgrades).
But as one developer politely said… “They could have checked the libc version and rejected the update. Now a lot of people are confused in the middle of their work.”
The article points out that upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS resolves the issue. Microsoft Engineer on GitHub Posted Additional options From the VS Code documentation:
If you cannot upgrade your Linux distribution, we recommend using the web client. If you want to use the desktop version, download VS Code. Release 1.85. Depending on your platform, be sure to disable updates to maintain that version.
Then Microsoft locked The GitHub thread was deemed “too heated” and the conversation was restricted to collaborators only.
Someone in a related thread was suggested Install Flatpak for VS Code, which was still version 1.85, and disable updates.But soon Microsoft locked Not only was that thread “too hot,” but they again restricted the conversation to collaborators.
