From 6a8b92eb355bee48b731ddb2d6ab5f12c3bf50fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:28:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update changelog.md for version 1.0.70 --- changelog.md | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index c5abf8ca..adef233a 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +## 1.0.70 - 2026-07-09 + +- Add GPT-5.6 model support +- Show a single Error prefix for mcp and skill command failures +- Show the real parse error when --agent selects a malformed custom agent +- web_fetch works through mandatory HTTPS proxies +- Hide / search on the Gists tab +- Treat superseded subagent runs as cancellations instead of failures +- Add paginated session.mcp.resources read/list/listTemplates RPCs for MCP server resources +- preToolUse hooks that exit with code 2 deny tool calls +- Create draft skills when Forge finds a clear workflow pattern +- Hide the GitHub App install nudge in remote terminals +- Pin plugins to an exact commit SHA using the `sha` field in plugin source configuration +- Add --sandbox and --no-sandbox flags to turn the OS-level shell sandbox on or off for the current session only, without changing your saved sandbox setting (useful with -p) +- Add /refine to rewrite a rough, stream-of-consciousness prompt into a clear one +- Add --repo and --local flags to /settings and /model +- Add a setting to show or hide timeline timestamps +- Let a trusted repository pin the model, effort level, and context tier and extend the URL/MCP/skill deny lists via .github/copilot/settings.json +- Expose SDK APIs to manage live MCP servers in running sessions +- Show the active user's models after /user switch +- Declining an extension's permission prompt no longer disables tool approvals for the rest of the session +- Avoid redundant background agent notifications after a blocking read_agent returns its result +- Startup auth errors recommend the real `copilot login` command +- Keep merge-semantics settings editable in /settings +- Re-sync managed plugins when their cache is missing or empty +- Copy the last assistant response even after command echoes +- Persist the last-logged-in user on every login so a restarted runtime client stays authenticated +- Hide /agent picker navigation hints when there is nothing to select +- Open the plan file or research report with Ctrl+Y in any mode +- Keep terminal color scheme changes in sync over SSH and remote shells +- Prefill /chronicle search so it can accept a query +- Show a distinct scrollbar thumb glyph in the /model picker on the no-color path (--no-color, non-color terminals) so the scroll position stays visible +- Skip launching a browser in remote terminals +- Arrow keys in /search and reverse search stay in search instead of switching tabs +- Restore tool event ordering so permission prompts appear after tool start +- Show only one cancellation message when streaming is aborted +- Keep /pr tables aligned in compact timeline view +- Show clear validation errors for empty or non-ASCII skill and command names +- Keep footer selection highlights aligned when the session bar is open +- Fail fast when marketplace plugin git auth needs a terminal prompt +- Dismiss other pending read and fetch sandbox-bypass prompts after you disable the sandbox +- Fix a crash on Windows triggered by desktop toast notifications +- Improve GPT-5.6 commentary guidance for tool-driven progress updates +- Highlight the sidebar toggle hint in the input footer +- Make markdown links and bare URLs in the timeline and tool output clickable +- Reclaim the blank line under the home tab bar: the timeline (and Sessions+Current split) sits flush under the tabs when a prompt is pinned, keeping one breathing line only while nothing is pinned +- Press Tab to switch the context window in /model +- Long-running sessions refresh enterprise managed settings hourly +- Mark locally-spawned MCP servers that run inside the sandbox in `/mcp list` (e.g. `connected (sandboxed)`) + ## 1.0.69 - 2026-07-07 - Label built-in file edits with a (sandbox policy) badge instead of (sandboxed), since they follow the sandbox policy on a best-effort basis rather than running in the OS-level sandbox From fd24cea5cb11da4e630485ff2d9269318b8c2a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:54:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update changelog.md for version 1.0.71 --- changelog.md | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index adef233a..7c7ca0a8 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,96 @@ +## 1.0.71 - 2026-07-16 + +- `copilot -p --autopilot` no longer hangs when a background shell or agent outlives the turn; it now honors the COPILOT_TASK_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS timeout the same way plain `-p` does. +- Reopening the /subagents model picker keeps each agent's reasoning effort and context tier +- Refresh memory context after 30 minutes in long-lived sessions +- Keep MCP tool lists up to date when servers change +- Avoid leaving long-running background git processes after exit +- Add a configurable maximum for Ctrl+R command history +- On startup, an invalid settings.json now shows a warning identifying the offending value instead of silently ignoring your settings +- /terminal-setup no longer skips setup on terminals without real kitty keyboard support +- Add /voice devices to choose and persist the microphone for voice mode +- Limit which built-in agents are available to tasks and subagents +- Add canvas support in the CLI for extension-driven interactions +- Enforce the sandbox filesystem policy on LSP file reads and rename edits +- Allow empty owner and author emails in marketplace metadata +- Keep all MCP Server Type options visible on short terminals +- Mark disabled skills in `copilot skill list` and its JSON output +- Plan mode now hard-blocks built-in tool calls that would modify the workspace, so the agent can no longer edit files or run mutating shell commands while planning (built-in mutators like opening a pull request are blocked; MCP and external tools are still allowed) +- Improve /chronicle cost-tips recommendations with richer cost profiles +- Highlight standalone hex colors inline in Markdown +- Persist GitHub MCP toolset/tool config via settings.json (githubMcpToolsets, githubMcpTools, etc.) +- Add `plugins marketplace` subcommands to list, add, and remove plugin marketplaces +- Persist sidebar sessions across restarts +- Add plugins marketplace browse and update commands +- Split /worktree and /move: /worktree now creates a new worktree and leaves your uncommitted changes behind, while the new /move carries them into the new worktree +- Add local and cloud cost profiles to /chronicle cost-tips +- Switching to autopilot mid-turn now auto-answers questions asked during that same turn +- Custom agents that request a shell tool by alias now also receive the matching read, list, and stop shell tools +- Slash commands and their autocomplete now match regardless of case (e.g. /SESSION works like /session) +- Show repo-enabled plugins in /plugin list and skill pickers +- Press ? twice to dismiss quick help and start a prompt with a literal ? +- Shell completions suggest positional-argument choices +- Show the /app launch message and download link immediately on Linux +- Validate --max-autopilot-continues rejects NaN, negative, and fractional values +- Honor NO_COLOR in the CLI even when chalk cached a color level +- Apply updated session options (shell flags, streaming, custom agent defaults) immediately after /settings changes +- Announce the focused /model row for screen readers +- Announce the focused picker row to screen readers +- Show selected custom agents once in /agent and keep their source label when the file name differs from the display name +- Clear the /model pricing banner when no models match +- Keep /share file session and /share html session from using the full-session selector as an output path +- Honor --context in fresh interactive sessions +- Fixed the model picker changing a hidden model's reasoning effort or context window when the search matched no results, and hid the inert key hints shown in that empty state +- Display plugin root skills as /plugin instead of /plugin:plugin +- Keep valid hooks in a config file when one hook entry is malformed +- Denying write(path) now blocks only the specified path +- Using --add-github-mcp-tool "\*" now enables all GitHub MCP tools +- Render empty untracked files without a phantom added line +- Show clean failure messages when copilot skill add fails +- Press Enter on a blank settings array item to show an error instead of saving an empty value +- Press Enter once to toggle booleans with a registered default in /settings +- Declining folder trust in /cwd keeps your live session open and returns to the previous folder +- Show a warning when a workspace MCP config is malformed or cannot be loaded +- Make bare `copilot mcp` and `copilot skill` print help and exit 0, matching `copilot plugin`. Consistent with `plugin`, the implicit `help ` form is not supported for these groups; use `copilot mcp --help` (or `copilot skill --help`) instead. +- Show malformed allowed_models.txt policy errors cleanly in -p mode +- Resume synced sessions by name without a false multiple matches error +- Show an error when --name is used with --session-id for an existing session +- Show --plugin-dir plugins in copilot plugin list +- Keep backgrounded sessions alive when you switch away from them +- Link bare #number GitHub refs in -p --stream off output +- Show the startup banner only on the first launch when set to once +- Allow `copilot update` and `/update` to accept `stable` as a channel +- Surface --plugin-dir warnings in the terminal +- Surface the real load error for malformed custom agents +- Reject --continue when used with --resume +- Prompt mode now exits non-zero when a `--share` or `--share-gist` export fails +- Server mode reconnects OAuth MCP servers from cached tokens +- Keep stored Git credential helpers available for marketplace plugin installs +- The /model picker shows the Auto model description as markdown with a clickable Learn More link +- Keep sessions tied to their working directory across prompts, restarts, and workspace tools +- Always offer a custom answer in ask_user choice prompts +- Lower the default maximum sub-agent nesting depth from 6 to 4 to curb runaway recursive sub-agent delegation. Usage-based billing users can still adjust `subagents.maxDepth` (up to 128). +- Add a pinned prompts setting in /settings to control prompt pinning +- Add Repo and Repo (local) scope tabs to the /settings dashboard +- Interactive shell commands now fail with a retryable "reconfiguring" message instead of an "unknown shellManager handle" error after the shell manager is disposed, and a detached command's completion notification is no longer lost when the shell context is reconfigured while a read is in progress +- Reject custom-agent names that would create hidden files +- Reject malformed --allow-tool and --deny-tool patterns with an error message +- Show retained shell output in /tasks Shell Details for finished tasks +- Remove duplicate Error: prefixes from plugin command failures +- Shell completions stop suggesting subcommands as flag values +- Show singular message counts in /usage activity graph +- Keep /cd from switching to files or inaccessible directories +- Dismissing the quick-help overlay with ? no longer leaves a stray ? in the prompt +- --sandbox and --no-sandbox now show their "ignored" warning during interactive startup when the sandbox feature is unavailable (previously it was only visible in non-interactive mode) +- Show the full command with its arguments (not just the wrapper) in the /mcp server detail view +- Hide the inert navigate and view-log hints in the empty /lsp logs (LSP Services) panel +- Exit non-interactive prompt runs with a failure code when a prompt is blocked before responding +- Show the Auto discount in the redesigned inline model picker +- New sessions start in the default directory instead of the active session's cwd +- Fish completion only offers enum values for closed-choice flags +- Use targeted validation commands and lighter install guidance by default +- Use ctrl+x → x to close a session and ctrl+x → h to hide the split sidebar + ## 1.0.70 - 2026-07-09 - Add GPT-5.6 model support