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Almost every time I open a file in VS Code, I have my focus stolen by a new tab with a what's new content, either from an update of VS Code itself (it's very actively developed) or one of the extensions.

Is there a way those can be disabled?

Fernando D'Andrea
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  • disable automatic update of extensions and VSC itself – rioV8 Oct 19 '20 at 17:38
  • Please add the exact quotes of the alert message to this question for future searchers. – pkamb Oct 19 '20 at 17:44
  • Also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/74804854/836330 for another way to toggle off showing the vscode Release Notes after each update (only applies to vscode itself, not extensions). – Mark Dec 14 '22 at 22:31

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you can set update.showReleaseNote to false or you can uncheck Update: Show Release Notes in your Settings.

pbachman
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    Changing this setting will disable the Release Notes screen only for VSCode, it will not prevent installed extensions from showing their own Release Notes pages when they update. – cro Oct 11 '22 at 10:01
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VSCode 1.75 (Jan. 2023) does offer an Easier opt-out of release notes after update:

You can now opt out of reading the release notes after every update, directly from the release notes editor.
This will reflect and update the update.showReleaseNotes setting.

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VonC
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  • See my comment above from two weeks ago on the same. Didn't want to post the same answer twice (mods have taken exception to that before) so I commented with the link. – Mark Jan 28 '23 at 04:20