If you haven’t downloaded Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 yet, now is a good time to do so. In the latest KB we have addressed some of the top reported problems around performance and reliability. So far, we’ve made 14 fixes and updates, that address Visual Studio build fail issues, Visual Studio crashes, and improve memory usage by disabling FSD by default. See the full list of fixes at MSDN – Update for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

What do you need to do to get these improvements in Update 2?

• If you’ve already got Update 2, you can download the KB3151378 patch from MSDN to get the latest fixes.
• If you haven’t got Update 2 yet, download Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 to get all the latest improvements. You can also install it from within Visual Studio 2015 by going to Tools > Extensions and Updates.

The current KB3151378 patch (version 14.0.25130.0) will also enable in-product notifications to appear when there are newer patch versions available for download, so you won’t miss out on further improvements. This KB3151378 article is a cumulative list of all fixes for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. Keep an eye on it for future updates.

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John Montgomery, Director of Program Management for Visual Studio @JohnMont John is responsible for product design and customer success for all of Visual Studio, C++, C#, VB, JavaScript, and .NET. He been at Microsoft for 17 years, working in developer technologies the whole time.