August 2026 brought more control over how GitHub Copilot reasons, which models you use, how teams share specialized agents, and when you ask for a code review.
GitHubCapability change· 2 days agoGitHub Copilot weekly releases on August 24 include new features such as team sessions in Slack and Teams, a generally available Customize tab that brings MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases…
GitHub announces upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing: billing changes for Copilot Business/Enterprise starting September/October 2026, convergence of Copilot Chat experiences into a…
GitHubCapability change· 2 days ago GitHub Copilot code review now supports reviewing pull requests authored by bots (including Copilot cloud agent) and very large pull requests, and adds the ability to specify a resolution reason…
GitHubCapability change· 3 days ago Enterprise-managed settings now support opting individual plugin marketplaces into automatic updates by setting autoUpdate: true, reducing manual maintenance for organization customizations.
GitHubAvailability change· 3 days ago GitHub is rolling out enforcement of a default model policy for Copilot Business and Enterprise plans, making it generally available.
GitHubCapability change· 5 days ago GitHub announced the general availability of the Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app, which unifies MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases in a single interface for discovering and managing…
GitHubProduct launch· 9 days ago GitHub announces a public preview of the new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack, which brings agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack.
GitHubProduct launch· 9 days ago GitHub announces a public preview of shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams, allowing users to start collaborative agent sessions, create code channels, and manage tasks…
GitHubCapability change· 11 days ago GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings, enabling administrators to enforce consistent controls for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission…
GitHubModel update· 16 days ago xAI's Grok 4.6 reasoning model is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with strong results in terminal-based coding tasks.
GitHubCapability change· 16 days ago GitHub Copilot weekly updates include new models (Kimi K3 and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash), general availability of Agent Plugins 1.0, improved plugin management, side chat for agent questions, subagent…
GitHubModel update· 17 days ago bringing improvements in web and app development, agentic coding workflows, code quality, and more.
GitHubAvailability change· 18 days ago GitHub announced Agent Plugins 1.0, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into one installable plugin, with support across VS Code, Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the…
GitHubCapability change· 19 days ago GitHub Copilot for JetBrains is updated with persistent memory across chat sessions, the ability to use Ollama as a BYOK provider, expanded Codex workflows, easier Copilot CLI setup, and additional…
GitHubDeprecation· 19 days ago GitHub announces the deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026, with MAI-Code-1.1-Flash as the suggested alternative.
GitHubModel update· 19 days ago Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, an updated small coding model with vision support and improved performance, is rolling out in GitHub Copilot at a reduced price.
GitHubProduct launch· 22 days ago GitHub Copilot Auto now displays the model used for each request along with AI credit and cache details.
GitHubProduct launch· 22 days ago GitHub Copilot's impact dashboard now includes a return on investment section that compares spending and pull request output across developer adoption phases, with a salary selector for modeling.
GitHubAvailability change· 23 days ago GitHub Copilot code review now offers two generally available effort levels, Lite and Balanced, replacing the preview names Low and Medium.
GitHubProduct launch· 23 days ago The Copilot usage metrics API now reports activity from third-party agent apps, broken out by individual agent, allowing teams to track usage per agent.
GitHubProduct launch· 23 days ago GitHub Code Quality no longer automatically creates a ruleset that requests Copilot code review on pull requests; existing rulesets have been disabled, but users can manually re-enable the feature.
GitHubCapability change· 23 days ago Enterprise owners can now centrally control which MCP servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys in enterprise managed settings.
GitHubAvailability change· 24 days ago GitHub announced general availability of Kimi K3, an open-weight model, in GitHub Copilot. The model offers frontier-level agentic coding abilities at a pricing of $3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M…
GitHubProduct launch· 26 days ago GitHub has retired the Copilot Billing Preview app. Users should now use the billing settings directly to review and manage Copilot spend.
Beginning August 4, 2026, GitHub Spark no longer accepts new users or allows the creation of new apps.
GitHubCapability change· 26 days ago GitHub Copilot cloud agent now allows users to set the reasoning level for models that support it, controlling how much the model reasons before responding.
GitHubCapability change· 26 days ago GitHub introduces enterprise team specialization for managed settings, allowing administrators to customize Copilot configurations per team using itemized files.
GitHub announces Copilot cloud agent automations triggered by issue or PR comments.
GitHubDeprecation· 29 days ago GitHub will deprecate six models across all Copilot experiences on September 1, 2026, and provides suggested alternatives for each.
GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash models across all Copilot experiences, effective July 31, 2026, recommending Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.6 Flash as alternatives.
GitHubCapability change· 31 Jul GitHub announces a public preview of user-based model policy targeting for enterprise customers with Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise licenses, allowing AI administrators to set a baseline of…
GitHubCapability change· 30 Jul GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio received a July 2026 update adding a new agent (public preview) built on the Copilot SDK, built-in .NET and Azure skills, a code review selection feature, and…
GitHubCapability change· 30 Jul GitHub announces a new enterprise managed setting that lets administrators restrict remote control of Copilot sessions to specific managed devices, with options for SSO enforcement, per-device…