Releasesby GlyphDefault Enablement of Copilot Features for Copilot Business and Enterprise
We’re introducing a new global default policy for generally available GitHub Copilot features and supported client capabilities in enterprise and organization Copilot settings. For the next 28 days, you can configure this policy, but it won’t affect feature access for your users yet.
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Tags for dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents are now generally available
You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets. This capability is now generally available. Both governed and ungoverned key-value tags are supported. See Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects .
CLI v0.8.1 | CLI
CLI v0.8.1 Continue local work in the cloud: Use cr code handoff --summary to start a new cloud Coding Agent task with your session summary, an optional plan, and an automatically discovered transcript when available. Clearer handoff results: See transfer progress, the branch and commit, transferred filenames, and a direct link to the cloud task.
Free VMs without an account, tracing, OpenCode on Cloud Agents
Your next project can start with an SSH command. This week, we're opening up free VMs with no account required, introducing tracing in Priority Boarding, and bringing OpenCode to Cloud Agents. Let's get into it!
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18
Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.Azure HorizonDB, now in public preview, includes PostgreSQL 18 support.Learn more.
What's new in Sigma
AI Assistant in build mode: pivot table styling In workbooks, Sigma Assistant in build mode now creates pivot tables with automatic heatmap and matrix styling based on the type of measures.
Sleeping Sessions Wake on Preview or SSH Traffic
Opening a preview URL or SSHing into a session whose machine has gone to sleep now wakes the machine and completes the request instead of showing "not running". Browser previews come back automatically after a session wakes, and the "Wake Devin up" button on a sleeping preview now shows live progress.
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Enterprise managed settings in-product validator
You can now use an in-product validator for enterprise managed settings for GitHub Copilot. The validator detects malformed JSON, unsupported configurations, invalid team mappings, and other errors that can prevent policies from being enforced. Review and correct errors in the “Copilot settings validation” section of the enterprise AI controls page.
Usage metrics API adds pull request review stages
The enterprise and organization repository-level Copilot usage metrics reports now break down how long pull requests spend in each stage of review. A new pull_request_review_times array on each repos-1-day row reports a median and a 90th percentile for the time from ready for review to first review, first review to final review, and final review to merge.
Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory
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 weekly releases , September 21
This week’s releases add new models to Copilot, local sandboxing in the Copilot app, and updates to Copilot in Slack, Microsoft Teams, JetBrains, and VS Code. GitHub Copilot Claude Opus 5.5 is available to Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. GPT-6 Sol is available to Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.
Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams
GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams now gives you more context, more control, and a clearer path from conversation to GitHub work. Whether you’re sharing files in Slack or images and forwarded messages in Teams, Copilot can use more of the context already in your conversation.
OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app
Understand how Copilot agents perform and interact with models and tools. The GitHub Copilot app now supports OpenTelemetry (OTel) configuration through enterprise-managed settings. OTel is an open source observability framework. Administrators can use it to send agent activity data to their organization’s compatible monitoring tools.
New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 brings AI-assisted tool approvals, more control over agent conversations, and shared skills and instructions for your organization. You can also review plans with the Codex agent and manage MCP tools with persistent controls.
More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews
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...