Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — a move causing issues for thousands of developers. VS Code 1.86 (aka the ‘January 2024’ update) sees Microsoft bump the minimum build requirements for the text editor’s popular remote dev tools to ≥glibc 2.28. But given that servers, clouds, and containers running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS use glibc 2.27, it means they no longer work. Although Ubuntu 18.04 is supported by Canonical until 2028 (through ESM) a major glibc upgrade is unlikely, meaning this “breaking change” is truly breaking workflows. To be clear: this does not […]

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