# VSC update screwed the REPL?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** vscode\
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012 "2025-11-20T19:53:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012/1 "2025-11-20T19:53:18Z")

</div>

Hi, is it only me or the last VSC update screwed the ability to open the Julia REPL?  
It happened to me after the last update but even when I installed a September version I was also not able to open the REPL. The big shit is that with this break it goes away the possibility of using the debugger.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kahliburke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kahliburke/32/208472_2.png) [@kahliburke](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kahliburke)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012/2 "2025-11-20T23:53:54Z")

</div>

If you are on the prerelease version, there was a bug with the one that just came out yesterday. I have fixed it and the pull request has been incorporated, a new version was just released I believe.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012/3 "2025-11-21T00:18:17Z")

</div>

Thanks, played around with toggling pre-release and release and when it updated the release version the problem went away.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kahliburke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kahliburke/32/208472_2.png) [@kahliburke](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kahliburke)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vsc-update-screwed-the-repl/134012/4 "2025-11-21T01:20:07Z")

</div>

The current prerelease includes the fix as well, just released an hour ago. v1.160.1