Copilot CLI 1.0.96
Update12 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 17, 2026
2026-10-12 Interactive sandbox settings suggest possible environment secrets and let you add masking hosts before saving. Make model IDs in /model and /config model case-insensitive and save canonical IDs Keep /allow-all available during startup while enterprise policy is still resolving /add-dir grants sandbox access to added directories for the current...
Topics: Governance, Security, Observability, Developer tools, Coding agents
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Every GitHub Copilot releaseClient telemetry user attribution and configurable capture
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.
Gemini 4 Argon in GitHub Copilot
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 managed settings enforcement updates
Enterprise administrators can now require supported GitHub Copilot clients to retrieve current server-managed settings at startup instead of relying on a cached policy. We are also adding minimum client version requirements to governance-focused managed settings keys over time, starting with the sandbox key.
Copilot CLI 1.0.97
2026-10-13 Add agent-scoped declarative hooks for custom agents Remote plugin marketplace and plugin fetches retry once with your signed-in GitHub token after HTTPS auth fails.
HydraFusion updates and new Max option
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.
Copilot CLI 1.0.98
2026-10-14 Add support for Gemini 4 Argon Command hooks complete reliably even when child-exit signals are lost under Node MCP status and /mcp commands stay synced to the active session after split-view session switches Resuming a session now respects abandoned pending-permission work and continues only active permission requests.
New controls and chat improvements in Copilot for JetBrains
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.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-November
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on November 16th, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative Claude Opus 4.8* 2026-11-16 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5 2026-11-16 Claude Opus 5.5 GPT-5.6 Terra 2026-11-16 GPT-6.1 Sol or GPT-6...
Also shipped on Oct 12, 2026
GitHub in October 2026Change an incident’s conference bridge without leaving Slack with /pd meeting now Generally Available
Run /pd meeting during an incident, paste the new link, and PagerDuty updates the incident card instantly with a Join meeting button in the channel. Scribe Agent follows along to the new meeting on its own, so you keep the transcript for your post-incident review. Available to customers using the Pa...
New Incident Workflow action: Get Slack Mentions for Incident Participants now Generally Available
This new Incident Workflow action pulls the assignees, acknowledgers, and role holders on an incident and turns them into Slack @mentions. Pair it with Send Slack Message to tag everyone involved without hard-coding names, so the same workflow works across every team and rotation. Available to Pager...
Conference bridge selection in the Slack declare modal now Generally Available
Declare an incident with /pd declare and choose one of your pre-configured PagerDuty conference bridges from a dropdown, or paste a meeting URL if you don't have one set up. The bridge is on the incident from the moment it's declared, so responders can join from Slack in one click. Available to cust...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now generally available (GA).
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA)
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA) .
End-to-end Snowflake Observability is now generally available in Dynatrace
Dynatrace Snowflake Observability is now generally available in the Dynatrace Data Observability app, offering automated telemetry collection and 14 pre-built dashboards for monitoring cost, performance, and data quality.