Releasesby GlyphClaude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-class model, now available in GitHub Copilot. It brings strong coding performance to everyday development and agentic workflows, giving developers a new Sonnet-class option for tasks across the IDE and CLI.
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Analytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
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Copilot Agent is now available in JetBrains AI Assistant
Today, JetBrains and GitHub are announcing a deeper integration between JetBrains AI Assistant and GitHub Copilot. Millions of developers already rely on the GitHub Copilot plugin as their AI pair programmer in JetBrains IDEs, and Copilot has also been available inside JetBrains AI Assistant through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) .
Per-user AI credit budgets available for cost centers
Enterprise admins can now set a cost center user-level budget: one per-user AI credit budget on a cost center that applies to every individual in it. As membership changes, the budget follows. Anyone added to the cost center, directly or through an enterprise team, picks up its per-user budget, and anyone removed is no longer covered by it.
Enterprises can default to auto model selection
Enterprise administrators can now set model to auto in the enterprise managed-settings.json to make Copilot auto model selection the default for new conversations. Add auto to .github-private/.github/copilot/managed-settings.json in your source organization for enterprise governance so new conversations start with Copilot auto model selection by default.
GitHub Models is being fully retired on July 30, 2026
In June, we announced that we are retiring GitHub Models and closed it to new customers. We’re now sharing the timeline for the next step: GitHub Models will be fully retired on July 30, 2026. After that date, GitHub Models, including the playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK), will no longer be available to any customer.
Enterprise managed-settings.json is generally available
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can configure AI standards through a managed-settings.json file maintained in a .github-private repository in a selected organization. This allows the enterprise to define new governance and extensibility flows that apply to Copilot clients such as VS Code or Copilot CLI.
New C++ language server config skill for Copilot CLI
The Microsoft C++ Language Server is now available as a plugin on the Copilot Plugins marketplace. It includes a new built-in setup skill that helps automate project setup, making it easier to generate and maintain the compile_commands.json file the language server needs to understand your code.
Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Copilot model picker, giving you more choice and a lower-cost option for your coding workflows. Kimi K2.7 Code is hosted by GitHub on Microsoft Azure.
Copilot vision is generally available
Copilot vision is now generally available. You can attach images and PDFs directly to your chat prompts so Copilot can reason about what it sees alongside your code.