diff --git a/com.visualstudio.code.appdata.xml b/com.visualstudio.code.appdata.xml
index 938e32e..ee2c6df 100644
--- a/com.visualstudio.code.appdata.xml
+++ b/com.visualstudio.code.appdata.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     	<category>TextEditor</category>
   	</categories>
 	<releases>
+		<release version="1.28.0" date="2018-10-03"/>
 		<release version="1.27.2" date="2018-09-12"/>
 		<release version="1.27.1" date="2018-09-06"/>
 		<release version="1.26.1" date="2018-08-16"/>
diff --git a/com.visualstudio.code.json b/com.visualstudio.code.json
index 15efb74..72536e1 100644
--- a/com.visualstudio.code.json
+++ b/com.visualstudio.code.json
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
   "app-id": "com.visualstudio.code",
   "branch": "stable",
   "base": "io.atom.electron.BaseApp",
-  "base-version": "stable",
+  "base-version": "18.08",
   "runtime": "org.freedesktop.Sdk",
-  "runtime-version": "1.6",
+  "runtime-version": "18.08",
   "sdk": "org.freedesktop.Sdk",
   "command": "code",
   "tags": ["proprietary"],  
@@ -48,18 +48,6 @@
             }
         ]
     },
-    {
-        "name": "xkbfile",
-        "cleanup": ["/include", "/lib/*.la", "/lib/pkgconfig"],
-        "config-opts": ["--disable-static"],
-        "sources": [
-            {
-                "type": "archive",
-                "url": "https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libxkbfile-1.0.9.tar.bz2",
-                "sha256": "51817e0530961975d9513b773960b4edd275f7d5c72293d5a151ed4f42aeb16a"
-            }
-        ]
-    },
     {
         "name": "nodejs",
         "cleanup": [
@@ -141,17 +129,17 @@
                 "type": "extra-data",
                 "filename": "code.deb",
                 "only-arches": ["x86_64"],
-                "url": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/1.27.2/linux-deb-x64/stable",
-                "sha256": "35aedf314a3d886e1affac8591904ba0b1ffb7e20075acabf7bfeec1fa2b6515",
-                "size": 45365022
+                "url": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/1.28.0/linux-deb-x64/stable",
+                "sha256": "6fd906da3db45b8a922dc7cb4ce2cbd222cc73f313103feae931e8633c934f9e",
+                "size": 44133200
             },
             {
                 "type": "extra-data",
                 "filename": "code.deb",
                 "only-arches": ["i386"],
-                "url": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/1.27.2/linux-deb-ia32/stable",
-                "sha256": "57aed7e9e9de896f9a7530c49953ad916657cbcf41d8309c35978055cf4e9159",
-                "size": 47703998
+                "url": "https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/1.28.0/linux-deb-ia32/stable",
+                "sha256": "ce3d6b3066b78bb79e65c234a1e516237d0ab0675a92b82515f48c5edfb63d84",
+                "size": 46478748
             }
 
         ]