
This section discusses questions related to the fact that Microsoft is no longer offering annual cloud subscriptions. Your subscriptions remain in place until their scheduled billing date, but don't renew when the billing date is reached.

You need to be a contributor or higher for an Azure subscription that was created for your EA subscription to purchase cloud subscriptions. Who can buy Visual Studio cloud subscriptions? You can sign up before your first purchase or during your first purchase in the Visual Studio Marketplace. To bill your purchases, you need an Azure subscription. You can still purchase new monthly cloud subscriptions. New customers are encouraged to go to to explore different options to purchase Visual Studio. There'll be no change to existing customers experience and ability to renew, increase, decrease, or cancel their subscriptions. Administrators should plan for migration and consider testing the final release of Visual Studio 2019.Microsoft no longer offers Visual Studio Professional Annual subscriptions and Visual Studio Enterprise Annual subscriptions in Cloud Subscriptions.

Version 16.4 will go out of support in October. It’s a good time for developers, administrators, and DevOps managers to review their current version usage.

Organizations can choose when to adopt the new features that ship in minor version updates with servicing baselines. This differs from minor version releases, like 16.10, which only receive servicing fixes until the next minor update is released. We offer fixes for servicing baselines for 12 months after the next baseline is declared.

So, it will start the 12-month support clock for the prior baseline – version 16.9. Additionally, the final release of 16.11 will be a servicing baseline. Version 16.11 will be the final version of Visual Studio 2019 and receive support through April 2029. Help us make this the best version of Visual Studio 2019 by giving us feedback on Developer Community or reporting a problem. For features included in this release see the 16.11 Preview 1 blog post or check out the release notes.ĭownload the latest Visual Studio 2019 preview to try it out. Visual Studio 2019 16.11 preview 2 is available today! Version 16.11 focuses on enhancing the stability and security of Visual Studio 2019.
