Boards not detecting after today's vscode update



After today's  vscode upgrade boards aren't detecting on my pc & on my colleagues pc neither.
While same board is getting detected on another one of my colleagues pc.

Kindly help mitigate this update issue

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  • Hi, just wanted to add that I'm having this problem as well on windows 10.

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  • Thank you for reporting this and we are looking into this at the moment.

    -Priyanka

  • Could you try to install the latest nrfutil device and run nrfutil device list ?

    This should fix the issue.

    -Priyanka

  • mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % chmod +x nrfutil
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil --version
    nrfutil 8.0.0 (54d8087 2025-01-07)
    commit-hash: 54d8087a38b73b6e56942fb1b024b62365f06731
    commit-date: 2025-01-07
    host: aarch64-apple-darwin
    build-timestamp: 2025-01-07T14:24:48.421941000Z
    classification: nrf-external
    
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil install nrf5sdk-tools
    [00:00:06] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages
    
    A new version of nrfutil is available. Please run: nrfutil self-upgrade
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil self-upgrade
    Uninstalled nrfutil
    [00:00:05] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil install device
    [00:00:04] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages                                                                                        
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil device list
    176002131
    Product         J-Link Pro
    Traits          jlink, usb, seggerUsb
    
    Supported devices found: 1
    
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % 

    Did, but no help.

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  • mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % chmod +x nrfutil
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil --version
    nrfutil 8.0.0 (54d8087 2025-01-07)
    commit-hash: 54d8087a38b73b6e56942fb1b024b62365f06731
    commit-date: 2025-01-07
    host: aarch64-apple-darwin
    build-timestamp: 2025-01-07T14:24:48.421941000Z
    classification: nrf-external
    
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil install nrf5sdk-tools
    [00:00:06] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages
    
    A new version of nrfutil is available. Please run: nrfutil self-upgrade
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil self-upgrade
    Uninstalled nrfutil
    [00:00:05] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil install device
    [00:00:04] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages                                                                                        
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % nrfutil device list
    176002131
    Product         J-Link Pro
    Traits          jlink, usb, seggerUsb
    
    Supported devices found: 1
    
    mohammedubaid@Mohammeds-MacBook-Pro bin % 

    Did, but no help.

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