Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available
Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously announced in public preview , these capabilities let you bring your team’s tools, standards, and external context directly into every code review.
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service adds incremental Klaviyo transfers in preview
Klaviyo transfers to BigQuery can now load data incrementally instead of in full.
Data quality monitoring dashboard (Public preview)
The data quality monitoring dashboard is now available in public preview for Enterprise Edition accounts. The dashboard provides an account-wide view of data quality health in Snowsight.
Upcoming general availability of Unity Gateway
Unity Gateway, the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, is scheduled for general availability soon. Built on Unity Catalog, Unity Gateway extends governance to the runtime interactions between models, agents, MCP servers, and tools.
Gemini Enterprise: New data stores and support for new actions (Preview)
The following data stores are available in Public Preview: Compute Engine Egnyte Sourcegraph Tavily Additionally, support for new actions is available in Public Preview for the following data stores: AirOps : Suggest Brand Kit edits and write grid. Egnyte : Create comments, create folders, create links, and upload files. Google Stitch : Edit screens.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs mirroring into Microsoft Fabric
This capability shares telemetry from Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspaces into Microsoft Fabric, making observability data available in OneLake as Delta Parquet, the open format, without duplication and with near real-time availability. All Azure Monit
Sign in with ChatGPT is now available on Vercel
Sign in with ChatGPT adds your ChatGPT account as an authentication option for Vercel. It is available when adding the Vercel plugin to ChatGPT and when signing in to Vercel or v0. When you add the Vercel plugin to ChatGPT, you can easily sign in to Vercel and grant team and project permissions without leaving ChatGPT.
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Default model enablement for Copilot Business and Enterprise
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.
GitHub Models is now retired
As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models is now retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer, including existing customers with active usage. This completes the retirement we announced on July 1 .
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio , July update
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.
Limit remote control to managed devices
Enterprises and organizations can now restrict which devices are eligible to host remotely controlled Copilot sessions , giving administrators fine-grained control over where remote control access is permitted.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases
This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131 , shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, and navigate VS Code. They also add new browser, accessibility, and dictation features.
GitHub Copilot app usage metrics now expand across report rollups
Copilot app usage is now reported across much more of the Copilot usage metrics API. Individual Copilot app activity is now attributed to users in the enterprise-user and organization-user reports. In addition, Copilot app coding activity is now broken out in the feature, model, and language rollups alongside every other Copilot surface.
Grok 4.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.5, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with a context window of up to 500,000 tokens, support for text and image inputs, as well as low, medium, and high reasoning effort.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains adds improved OpenTelemetry configuration and model management
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.