GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, May releases
VS Code continues with weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.120 through v1.123, the releases we shipped throughout May and early June 2026. In May, we made the Agents…
VS Code continues with weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.120 through v1.123, the releases we shipped throughout May and early June 2026. In May, we made the Agents…
We have deprecated GPT-4.1 across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), June 1, 2026. Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative GPT-4.1…
Editor’s note (June 5, 2026): Removed the waitlist link and updated the links to the GitHub Copilot app. The GitHub Copilot app technical preview is now available to all existing…
GitHub Copilot can now run inside secure, isolated sandboxes, both locally on your machine and in the cloud. Sandboxed Copilot experiences provide isolated environments for Copilot’s tool execution locally as…
Copilot code review adapts to your team’s tools and standards and scales its depth to the complexity of each change. Today we’re shipping two public previews: Agent skills and MCP…
Agent apps are AI agents from GitHub partners, installable from the GitHub Marketplace, and integrated directly into GitHub. You install an agent app just like any other GitHub App from…
With Copilot CLI now available in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs, this update centers on new capabilities for Copilot CLI sessions, while also delivering a broader set of agentic improvements.…
MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash, Microsoft’s latest small‑tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot starting with VS Code. MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash delivers best‑in‑class quality for its size, outperforming other small models in early…
Following the rollout to Copilot Pro and Pro+ users, Copilot Memory is rolling out user-level preferences in public preview for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, with new admin controls for…
With the new automations feature, Copilot cloud agent can now run automatically, on a schedule or in response to repository events. Automations let you hand off repetitive tasks to the…
Every Copilot session you run (e.g., fixing a bug, reviewing code, spinning up a feature) builds a history only you can query. /chronicle turns that history into standup summaries, personalized…
As announced in our recent blog post, usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot is now live for all users and Copilot code review consumes GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub…
To help you tell a deeper Copilot adoption story—not just who is active, but how they’re using Copilot—the Copilot usage metrics API now classifies each engaged user into an AI…
Enterprise administrators and billing managers can now set hard budget limits for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) SKUs, preventing teams from exceeding their allocated license budgets. Previously, license-based products like GHAS…
Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic’s latest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Opus 4.8 demonstrates a clear step forward in code understanding and generation across…
Copilot Memory now includes improved memory deletion, adds a repository-level off switch, and brings further memory controls into the Copilot CLI. Copilot Memory is in public preview and available to…
Enterprise owners now have granular control over which GitHub Copilot models are available to each organization. With targeted model rules, you can allow specific models for specific organizations instead of…
Dependabot now supports sbt. Add sbt as a package ecosystem in your dependabot.yml file. Dependabot will then monitor your build.sbt inputs and open pull requests when newer commits are available…
This week, we’re rolling out two improvements to our delegated workflows for secret scanning. What’s changing Sort bypass and dismissal requests in the UI: You can now choose between ascending…
Starting today, new sign-ups for GitHub Classroom are no longer available as we transition to partner solutions. If you already have a GitHub Classroom account or existing classrooms, you can…
Code coverage metrics are now in public preview for all GitHub Code Quality users on github.com. You can now see an aggregate percent of code covered directly on pull requests,…
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