Building on the AI adoption phase cohorts added to the Copilot usage metrics API, organization and enterprise reports now report the total number of pull requests merged by each adoption…
MAI-Code-1-Flash, Microsoft AI’s in-house coding model, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, building on its recent expansion across Copilot surfaces. Purpose-built for coding and optimized…
GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available. Since launching the public preview in March 2026, we have shipped a series of enhancements based on your feedback, including model selection,…
Enterprises can now control which plugins their users can install in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code. This setting is now available in public preview. Add strictKnownMarketplaces to your enterprise-managed…
Copilot code review now uses the built-in file exploration tools available in the Copilot CLI and SDK, significantly improving review cost efficiency with no change to your existing workflow. If…
Copilot Free and Student plans will now use Copilot auto model selection as the default and only model selection experience. Auto dynamically selects the best model for each task, removing…
Path access prompt shows resolved symlink targets so you can see exactly what access is being granted
Show the pay-as-you-go additional usage budget at launch, refresh it after a request is rejected for hitting the additional spend limit, and show a friendly message when the additional usage limit is reached
Add websocket responses support for BYOK OpenAI-compatible providers
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Blocked image attachments now explain what to do — enable vision via the "Editor preview features" policy, switch to a vision-capable model, or try a different image — instead of showing a confusing error.
Options in --help output sort alphabetically, including options that have two long flags
Auth validation errors (e.g., VPN or IP allowlist failures) are now shown in the sign-in banner with guidance to check network access
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Ask and elicitation dialogs now scroll together with the timeline instead of taking over the screen, so a tall dialog no longer hides the agent's output — scroll up to read earlier output, then back down to the dialog
Keep blank lines between reasoning summary sections
Show user-typed colon terms in the search chip
Plugins can now ship extensions, making them installable via the plugin marketplace
Add content search, match highlighting, and n/N navigation in diff view
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