VS Code – how to rollback extension/install specific extension version

From v1.30 release notes: install previous versions of extensions.

You can now go back to a previous version of an extension if there are
issues with the current version. VS Code provides an Install Another
Version action on an installed extension which shows a dropdown of
available versions.

The option to install another version is in the context menu. Or the gear icon for each extension. Or the Extension Page in vscode: Uninstall dropdown: Install another version....

For me when I do this – without “Disable Auto Updating Extensions” (I assume that the Debugger for Chrome is such an extension) it does not auto-update on reload or close/open but shows a button for that extension to install the latest version instead.

So it appears you don’t have to disable all auto-updating extensions just to revert one extension to an older version and keep it at that older version. [leave a comment if you find that isn’t true, thanks]

Update for vscode v1.75:

See pinning extensions (to a specific version):

Make sure you have extension autoupdates enabled and try pinning
extensions to a specific version using following UI. Make sure
extensions are not getting auto updated after pinning.

From CLI : Install a specific version using following format –
code-insiders --install-extension eamodio.gitlens@13.1.1

From Extensions UI – Use *Install Another Version... action in the
context menu of the installed extension.

Make sure the pinned version is synced across VS Code instances – Use
Settings Sync feature to test this. To have different instances of VS
Code on same machine, open VS Code from CLI using different
user-data-dir and extensions-dir. Eg: code-insiders --user-data-dir <path> --extensions-dir <path>

Export and Import the profile with the pinned extension and make sure
in the imported profile, extension is still pinned. Export and Import
profile actions are available in the global activity context menu
(gear).

Si it appears that regardless of the Disable Auto Updating Extensions setting, pinning/reverting to a previous version of an extension should result in that extension not updating.