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Users can now manage GitHub Copilot code review settings through REST and GraphQL APIs, including enterprise policies and repository-level configurations. The update also adds explicit attribution for Copilot-generated reviews and provides visibility into the skills and instructions used for comments.
@GitHub in Slack and Teams is now generally available, allowing users to investigate bugs, create issues, and open pull requests directly from chat. It also includes Canvas integration for reviewing code and implementation plans.
GitHub Copilot is now available in public preview within Xcode's built-in coding assistant, starting with Xcode 27.3 beta.
You can now delegate coding tasks, guide execution, and review results with GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Air . The integration uses the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and supports tasks in your JetBrains IDE or in the cloud. Use Copilot in Air alongside the GitHub Copilot plugin and choose the workflow that works best for you.
GitHub Copilot repository plugin defaults and enterprise-managed plugin controls are generally available across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app.
GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps in public preview. This allows automated services and agents to make requests on behalf of an organization without requiring individual user credentials.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra model is now available in GitHub Copilot for coding and terminal tasks, offering a balance of performance and cost.
A new GitHub app for Microsoft Teams integrates Copilot, allowing users to receive notifications and turn issues into pull requests directly within Teams.
GitHub is rolling out a global default policy for Copilot features. Unconfigured features will be set to a default state of Enabled, Disabled, or Let organizations decide, depending on the enterprise configuration.
You can now use the REST API to retrieve and update Copilot model policies for enterprises, enterprise teams, enterprise apps, and organizations. What’s new GET and PATCH endpoints are now generally available for model policies at four levels: Enterprise: /enterprises/{enterprise}/copilot/model-policies Enterprise teams...
Multi-repo support in Slack and Microsoft Teams GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams now supports working across multiple repositories in a single conversation.
Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts is now generally available. It remediates alerts by working across your codebase the way a developer would: it explores relevant files, proposes a fix, and reruns CodeQL to confirm the fix closes the alert before opening a pull request for your review.
HydraFusion has an updated model pool, improved orchestration workflows, and introduces HydraFusion Max. Both HydraFusion and HydraFusion Max are available across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot CLI and remain in research preview.
Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s newest frontier model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks. In early testing, Gemini 4 Argon solved more tasks than previous Gemini models on every coding benchmark, with its largest gains in Copilot CLI.
Enterprise administrators can now use telemetry in managed settings to attribute GitHub Copilot activity to a user without collecting their prompts, responses, or tool content. The telemetry.capture.identity setting adds three attributes to OpenTelemetry (OTel) data: user.name : The authenticated Copilot account name, currently the GitHub login.
This update brings more control over default models and MCP server in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also makes diagnostics easier to address, improves chat navigation and account controls, and strengthens reliability across agent sessions, customizations, and worktrees.
This week’s updates make Copilot easier to use across accounts and environments, with more control over what agents can access and how you manage their work. GitHub Copilot Claude Haiku 5.5 is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users.
This release adds new billing and license controls for Copilot code review admins: Billing: Organization owners can bill Copilot code reviews from members with a Copilot license to the organization’s cost center instead of using up those members’ Copilot quotas.
Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic’s newest lightweight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, high-volume work like subagents, quick edits, and terminal tasks. In early testing, Haiku 5.5 matched Claude Sonnet 5 on many coding tasks while using significantly fewer tokens and steps.
If your Copilot usage metrics have shown agent activity or agent lines of code falling while Copilot usage kept growing, we’ve found the cause, and a fix is rolling out to each IDE. Several IDEs recently moved Copilot agent sessions to the Copilot SDK.
You can now request a GitHub Copilot code review through the REST and GraphQL APIs and set the review effort level for each request. Balanced is also now the default review effort level. These changes are generally available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.
Computer use is now available in public preview in GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app on macOS and Windows. Copilot can interact with desktop applications on your behalf (e.g., reading accessible app content and visual context, clicking controls, entering and editing text, pressing keys, scrolling, dragging, and navigating workflows across...
Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory for customers who’ve enabled it. When you use agentic autofix, it reviews existing memories for context that can help resolve security alerts. When it creates a fix, it stores the fix pattern as a memory for future use.
GitHub Copilot code review now offers additional personal configurations to an expanded set of Copilot plans and an enterprise-level default setting. These improvements are now generally available: A dedicated personal settings page for automatic review and your default review effort An enterprise-wide default review effort setting for organization-owned...
Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. You can use it for agentic coding, long-running agentic tasks, and knowledge work. In early testing, Opus 5.5 resolved tasks comparably to Claude Opus 5 while using significantly fewer steps and tokens. It also quickly recovered from errors in multistep tasks.
Grok 4.7, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on Grok 4.6, it is designed for agentic coding and complex, multistep workflows. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See Models and pricing for GitHub Copilot for details.
Copilot code review now gives you a clearer view of how a review changes over time, more intelligently auto-resolves its own suggestions, and generates useful commit messages when you accept eligible suggestions in a batch. These updates help you focus on findings that still need attention and make the resulting commits easier to understand.
GitHub Copilot expands existing CLI report coverage with agentic activity metrics for skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands, and plugins. What’s new The fields appear in enterprise and organization per-user and aggregate 1-day reports, per-user 28-day reports, and the day_totals entries in aggregate 28-day reports.
Previously, when a member used all the Copilot AI credits available to them, they were blocked from Copilot features that consume credits. This release adds a flow for them to request more budget the moment they hit the limit. You can approve, adjust, or deny that request without leaving your settings.
GitHub Copilot can now suggest allowed values when you create a custom property for repositories in your organization. This feature is in public preview for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans.
GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence. Choose the tier that reflects how you want auto to weigh cost, quality, and response time for each prompt. Copilot will then optimize accordingly. Efficiency prioritizes keeping costs low and suits fast, straightforward tasks.
GitHub Copilot usage metrics reports now include generally available metrics for activity in the dedicated VS Code Agents window, helping you measure adoption and engagement across enterprises and organizations.
We have deprecated MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) today, September 10, 2026. Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative MAI-Code-1-Flash 2026-09-10 MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Please update your workflows and integrations to use a supported model.
This update brings support for enterprise-managed sandbox policies, cross-file cursor jumps for next edit suggestions, global project context in chat, enterprise policy diagnostics, and a new connection between terminal Copilot CLI sessions and JetBrains IDEs.
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI’s latest general-purpose model, GPT-6 Astra, is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and agentic tasks.
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on October 2nd, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative Gemini 3.5 Flash 2026-10-02 Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.6 Flash 2026-10-02 Gemini 3.8 Flash Kimi K2.7 Code 2026-10-02 Kimi K3 Claude...
The GitHub Copilot app and Copilot CLI now respect content exclusion policies configured by enterprise, organization, and repository administrators. Copilot won’t use excluded files as context, helping you protect sensitive code across agentic workflows. This is available for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers.
Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot. The latest model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks.
As of today, September 1, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions). Note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 is still available to individual GitHub Copilot subscribers on annual plans.
To provide a strong, consistent Copilot experience, we’re making three separate, upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing. Please review the upcoming updates to understand what may impact you.
You can now opt individual plugin marketplaces into automatic updates by setting autoUpdate: true on an extraKnownMarketplaces entry in enterprise managed settings. Supported clients automatically check the marketplace and update installed plugins sourced from it, reducing manual maintenance for organization customizations.
In July, we announced a default model policy for generally available GitHub Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Starting today, we’re gradually rolling out enforcement of the policy through September 1, so it will take effect at different times for different enterprises.
This update brings Copilot harness to generally availability. You also get more stable account, model, and MCP experiences. What’s new Copilot harness generally available Copilot harness is now generally available, providing faster feature delivery and better code quality.
The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to plan changes, investigate problems, and hand off coding tasks from the conversations where your team coordinates work.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrators can now apply consistent controls for everyone on your enterprise’s Copilot plan.
From new models and portable plugins to smoother agent workflows, this week’s updates make GitHub Copilot more flexible across editors, the command line, and the Copilot app. GitHub Copilot, general Kimi K3 is rolling out to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.
Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. From our early testing, the model has made improvements in web and app development and agentic coding workflows over it’s previous version.
You can now build a plugin once and use it across all compatible agent clients. We published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6 with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. Google also joined as a core maintainer on the same day.
With the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash , we will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative MAI-Code-1-Flash 9-10-2026 MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Please update your workflows and integrations to use the new model before September 10.
We’ve made improvements to Copilot Chat on github.com that make it easier to use. These include easier access to your recent conversations in chat, the ability to minimize the chat window and return to an in-progress conversation, and indicators that help you track your Copilot token spend.
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have that ruleset, we’ve turned off the settings we enabled.
Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have resumed rolling out Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing for models and requests for details. Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have temporarily paused the roll-out of Kimi K3 while we mitigate an incident with GitHub Actions.
We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your GitHub billing settings. The app helped you understand your bill during the move to usage-based billing.
Enterprise administrators can now customize managed settings by targeting enterprise teams with itemized configuration files. Large enterprises can scale governance without bottlenecking every configuration change through central administrators or one-size-fits-all policies.
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions).
July 2026 brought a new agent based on the Copilot SDK, built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams, and more ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to how you and your team work. Highlights Here’s what’s new with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026.
We’re introducing a global default enablement policy for generally available Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Instead of requiring admins to manually turn on each new model as it ships, models that become generally available will now be on by default.
This update brings more control and clarity to your GitHub Copilot for JetBrains workflows. You can now connect MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows, tune telemetry and token settings for advanced scenarios, and work with a cleaner chat and model-selection experience.
You can now govern the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent with enterprise managed settings, the same centrally managed policies you use to control Copilot across your enterprise.
Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex, long-running coding tasks that require careful reasoning, effective tool use, and reliable execution across multiple steps.
Copilot in the IDE, on github.com and the coding agent.
Other GitHub products: GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub CLI, GitHub platform
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