What's new in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.30
Dec 9, 2020- Issues Fixed in 15.9.30:
- Fixed a C++ compiler crash when compiling a call to a function taking generic arguments in C++/CLI.
- Security Advisory Notices:
- Git for Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.29 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Issues Fixed in 15.9.29:
- 15.9.12 - linker crash during code generation
- v141 generates movaps for unaligned assignments on x64
- Security Advisory Notices:
- Visual Studio Tampering Vulnerability
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.28 (Oct 14, 2020)
- Issues Fixed in 15.9.28:
- .NET Core SDK 2.1.519 updated into Visual Studio 2019.
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.27 (Sep 29, 2020)
- Issues Fixed in 15.9.27:
- Out of support versions of .NET Core will no longer be reinstalled during a repair or upgrade if they were removed outside of VS setup.
- Security Advisory Notices:
- Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Microsoft ASP.NET Core Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.24 (Jun 23, 2020)
- Issues Fixed in 15.9.24:
- Fixed a bug in the C++ linker missing imports when using umbrella LIBs with difference casing on postfix of DLL name.
- Fixed a bug in the ARM64 C++ compiler where the wrong values could be restored after setjmp.
- Fixed C++ compiler bug for proper folding of inline variable dynamic initializers.
- Made a change that enables Enterprise IT administrators and deployment engineers to configure tools like Microsoft Update client & SCCM to determine applicability of VS2017 updates hosted on Microsoft Update Catalog & WSUS.
- Security Advisory Notices:
- Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.11 (Apr 5, 2019)
- These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.11:
- Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
- PGO Code Gen Bug - Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
- Visual Studio completely freezes when editing package.json.
- An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
- Clicking on a web app URL in the Azure activity log now successfully publishes a Cloud Service Project.
- You can now publish to a Function app even if you are not logged into the account that contains the function app.
- We have fixed an unhandled exception in the HTML editor.
- We have updated the scaffolding package to install Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design package version 2.1.9 for .NET Core 2.1 and version 2.2.3 for .NET Core 2.2.
- We have implemented a C++ compiler fix to correct exception handling support for code using setjmp/longjmp in Release mode.
- We have implemented a C++ linker fix regarding information in PDB where the incorrect module info could result in heap corruption when producing a stripped PDB file either by PDBCopy.exe or by link.exe when option /PDBSTRIPPED is specified.
- We have corrected dual signing of the ARM64 Visual C++ Redistributable installer.
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.10 (Apr 5, 2019)
- We have fixed an issue with debugging using Docker when a web proxy is configured.
- In debugging using Docker, you will now experience improved error handling for failures related to drive sharing configuration (for example, expired credentials).
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.9 (Apr 5, 2019)
- These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.9:
- We have fixed an issue with deploying resource group projects when a subscription owner's name contains an apostrophe.
- SSDT: We fixed a crash in the SSIS Foreach Loop container.
- A few .NET native for UWP customer issues were fixed in .NET native tools 2.2 (UWP 6.2.4).
- We have corrected dual signing of Visual C++ Redistributable installers.
- Security Advisory Notices:
- A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio C++ Redistributable Installer improperly validates input before loading dynamic link library (DLL) files.
- Unity Editor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- •.NET Core NuGet Tampering Vulnerability.
New in Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2017 15.9.7 (Apr 5, 2019)
- Crashes when expanding variables!.
- /DEBUG:FASTLINK + C7 + PCH crashes debugger.
- Native C++ application crashes because of stack corruption with VS 2017 15.9.2.
- Incorrect Release Mode code.
- Xamarin Unobserved Task Exception WebRequest.
- Link /SOURCELINK option seems to do nothing. This fixes Source Link for Managed C++ Debugging.
- Fixed an issue with corruption of AVX/MPX/AVX512 registers while Debugging.
- Update of Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDestkop framework packages for C++ UWP DesktopBridge applications adding support for ARM64.
- Corrected incorrect version of VCToolsRedistVersion in Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props.
- Corrected unsigned embedded dll for VC Redist installers.
- SSDT/Web Tools: We fixed an issue where SQL LocalDB was not installed on Polish, Turkish, and Czech locales.
- SSDT: We fixed an issue affecting SQL Server Analysis Services (Method not found exception when clicking on UI).
- SSDT: We fixed an accessibility issue which was causing the contents of a table not to be visible in the result window when using High-Contrast mode.