Revised release plan for Copilot subscription-based network routing

On July 31 we announced that network requests for Copilot would be routed based on a user’s Copilot subscription, giving customers the ability to block access to Copilot Individual. This change enables Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers to make sure all Copilot users on their networks are accessing Copilot through their Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise subscription, and that all Copilot user data is handled according to the terms of their Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise agreement.

We have rolled back that release in order to allow customers more time to make any necessary adjustments to their firewall settings.

On November 4, we will enable the feature and ensure that users are accessing Copilot through the specific endpoints for their Copilot subscriptions. This means only Copilot Business users will be able to connect to Copilot Business endpoints and only Copilot Enterprise users will be able to connect to Copilot Enterprise endpoints.

Important next steps to ensure continued access to Copilot

Between now and November 4, all Copilot customers should ensure they are following the firewall settings published in our docs. Specifically, this means customers should ensure access is allowed to the wildcard hostname https://*.githubcopilot.com, along with the other listed hostnames.

In order to ensure continued access to Copilot after November 4, all Copilot customers should:

• Ensure access is allowed to the subscription-specific hostnames https://*.business.githubcopilot.com (for Copilot Business) or https://*.enterprise.githubcopilot.com (for Copilot Enterprise)
• Update their IDE clients to at least these minimum versions:
• For Visual Studio Code, use Copilot Chat version 0.17 or later
• For JetBrains IDEs, use Copilot version 1.5.6.5692 or later
• For Visual Studio, use version VS 2022 17.11 or later

Customers with an account rep that want to block access to Copilot Individual on their network before November 4 should follow these instructions instead of the previously published firewall docs:

• Ask their account rep to opt them into the feature without waiting
• Block access to https://*.individual.githubcopilot.com
• Ensure access is allowed to the subscription-specific hostnames https://*.business.githubcopilot.com (for Copilot Business) or https://*.enterprise.githubcopilot.com (for Copilot Enterprise)
• Update their IDE clients to at least these minimum versions:
• For Visual Studio Code, use Copilot Chat version 0.17 or later
• For JetBrains IDEs, use Copilot version 1.5.6.5692 or later
• For Visual Studio, use version VS 2022 17.11 or later

Read more about subscription-based network routing here.