Where i can find the legacy version of the theme?

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Legacy theme deprecation

Many of you may still want to use the legacy version of Material Theme (previously called Community Material Theme) for Visual Studio Code, released back in 2016. Starting from December 2023 the official legacy version is no longer available on the marketplace. Any version of the legacy theme you will find on the marketplace is not the official one, may contain malicious code, and probably violate the license (learn more).

What you're missing

The last official Material Theme includes years of updates and improvements compared to the old legacy version. Over the years, Visual Studio Code has got important features like semantic highlighting and improved syntax scopes.

Since the legacy version of the theme is a snapshot of the theme from 2016, and hasn't been updated since then, it doesn't work with these features. By using it you're missing more precise code highlights and recognition, more colors, and some features built-in with the official theme.

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Still want to use the legacy version?

If you really want to download and use the legacy material theme, you can download the vsix file and install it manually inside Visual Studio Code. More info about installing local extensions is here.