Hey,
We stay slightly behind the latest releases of VSCode for two reasons:
- Especially with new features, there are often bug fixes that come to VSCode after an update to fix things, which we have chosen to wait for instead of trying to always be on the latest VSCode version
- As things change in VSCode, it takes our engineer’s time to upgrade the VSCode version Cursor is based off, taking time away from working on other areas of Cursor.
If there is a major feature added to VSCode that people want, or an update to an extension that Cursor is unable to get, we have no problem prioritizing a VSCode update, but I would usually expect Cursor to be somewhat behind VSCode most of the time.
We are currently testing VSCode 1.96.2, which was released in November '24, for a future update, which should come to users a future update soon!