Visual Studio Code keeps opening the release notes

Question

I'm using Visual Studio Code 1.15.1, as of this writing. When Code did the last update, it began auto-opening a release notes file for that version. But now, Every time that I open Visual studio, from task bar, opening an associated file, or anywhere else, that same release notes file keeps opening after the file I tried to open. Which means I have to close it to get to what I was wanting to work on. This is clearly extremely frustrating, as I can't even find where the release notes are kept as a file to move/rename them!

Searching on the web has been next to useless, as it just keeps showing links to websites about releases of Visual Studio code. I can't get the search engine to understand I want to talk about a file that contains release notes. Any ideas? Maybe I missed a setting, but I've been digging and I've yet to actually find something related in the editor settings.

Answer 1

Click Manage (gear) icons on your bottom left side, choose Settings and then type release notes on the searchbar (Search settings). Uncheck the "Show Release Notes after an update"

Answer 2

In Windows (probably works on Mac too) I did this:

Press Ctrl + Shift + P

type command: Clear Editor History

Press Enter

stolen from here