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Over the past few months, we have continued shipping monthly Visual Studio 2026 releases, delivering improvements across all stages of the development cycle. In this blog post, we'll recap everything that changed from version 18.7 through 18.10 (released this month) that is relevant for C++ developers. This includes new tools for maintaining and navigating C++ projects, along with Git, GitHub Copilot, and debugging improvements that support the way large native codebases are built. Some headlines include the GitHub Copilot modernization experience (now generally available) to guide you through MSVC upgrades, a deeper semantic index to accelerate code navigation, discoverable MSVC Build Tools versions across installations, and support for Git worktrees and submodules directly in the IDE. For the previous set of updates, see What's New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 versions 18.1 through 18.6 . C++ reliability improvements Across Visual Studio 2026 versions 18.7 thr...

Microsoft will be at CppCon 2026 in Aurora, Colorado, which is taking place from September 14 through 18. Join us for talks from Microsoft speakers and colleagues across the C++ community and visit the Microsoft booth Monday through Thursday to meet the team and discuss the tools, technologies, and challenges that matter to you. If you can't make it, you can still watch the talks later on YouTube . Survey Whether you are going to the conference or not, we also invite you to take our annual CppCon survey at aka.ms/cppcon/survey . Your feedback can help us improve our C++ developer tools and focus on solving the most pressing issues. If you are present at the conference, by taking the survey, you will also be entered into a daily raffle (Monday – Thursday), for a chance to win a Lego® prize! To participate in the raffle, simply fill out the survey, and visit the Microsoft booth at 4:30 PM each day to have a chance to win! Microsoft sessions at CppCon Our speakers will cover AI-ass...

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, a new feature to synchronize video pipelines without requiring timecode from the source. Previously, achieving frame-accurate locking across video outputs required investing in specialized hardware or managing complex, external synchronization workflows. While timecode is generally standard for highly produced, traditional broadcast content, it is often unavailable and difficult to manage in typical digital streaming workflows. The new capability uses visual signatures to automatically identify and align specific frames across multiple video streams, enabling customers to achieve frame-accurate input switching across standard pipeline channels, as well as linked, cross-region single-pipeline channels. Video Aligned Locking supports outputs including HLS, MediaPackage, CMAF Ingest, UDP and SRT. To learn more about how to configure this feature, visit the Requirements for Video Aligned Locking documentation. For a deeper dive...

AWS Lambda now supports direct read  configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket. With this launch, you can optimize the throughput and latency of file reads for your Lambda functions based on your application requirements. Customers use S3 Files with Lambda functions to build scalable data processing pipelines and stateful agentic workloads with the performance and simplicity of a file system, while benefiting from the scalability, durability, and cost-effectiveness of S3. S3 Files serves data from high-performance storage for low latency or directly from your S3 bucket for high throughput on large reads, automatically routing each operation to the storage best suited for it. By default, Lambda supports direct reads from your S3 bucket only for functions configured with 512 MB of memory or higher. However, without control over the direct read configuration, you cann...

AWS Marketplace sellers that activated the request demo or request private offer call-to-action buttons on their listings can now act on customer requests within minutes of submission, while customers are still actively evaluating their products. This happens automatically, with no changes required to their listings or workflows. When a customer submits a request, they can now provide details about their use case, and AWS Marketplace uses an agentic workflow to evaluate those details and create an opportunity for the seller: an active prospect with a defined use case. Each opportunity arrives in AWS Partner Central with the customer's contact details and use case, so sellers can reach out directly. Previously, an AWS representative contacted the customer to qualify every request before sharing it, adding days of delay. Now sellers receive every active lead the moment it comes in, without waiting for AWS to manually qualify it first. Even when a customer provides only their contac...