{"slug": "github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24", "title": "GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24", "summary": "GitHub released weekly updates for GitHub Copilot on August 24, adding team sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, a generally available Customize tab in the Copilot app, and new CLI features including default mode settings and a native Rust runtime. The updates also extend enterprise controls to JetBrains, introduce VS Code 1.135 enhancements, and add model management and Git agent capabilities to Visual Studio.", "body_md": "Release\n\n# GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24\n\nThis week’s updates give you more control over how Copilot runs, from team sessions in Slack and Teams to customization across the app, CLI, and your IDE.\n\n[GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams](#github-copilot-in-slack-and-microsoft-teams)\n\n- Turn team conversations into shared agent sessions. Mention @GitHub to investigate problems, plan work, and make changes your team can follow and guide together.\n\n[GitHub Copilot app](#github-copilot-app)\n\n- The\n**Customize** tab is now generally available, bringing MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases together in one place. - Turn Azure DevOps issues and pull requests into Copilot sessions from the\n**Customize** tab. - Work in your Linux environment with experimental support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).\n- Split and move any tab to keep related work side by side.\n- Send any browser preview straight to your external browser from the tab’s context menu.\n\nTry the [Copilot app](https://github.com/features/ai/github-app?utm_source=app-download&utm_medium=changelog&utm_campaign=weekly-copilot-launches-aug-2026).\n\n[GitHub Copilot CLI](#github-copilot-cli)\n\n- Start every new session with your preferred execution and permission modes using\n`defaultMode`\n\nand`defaultPermissionMode`\n\n. - Manage plugins, MCP servers, and skills more easily with new experiences in\n`/plugin`\n\n,`/mcp`\n\n, and`/skills`\n\n. - Pick up where you left off by restoring sessions that did not exit cleanly, including sessions interrupted mid-turn.\n- Get significantly faster performance now that Copilot CLI runs on a native Rust runtime, while its terminal interface remains built in TypeScript.\n\nInstall the [Copilot CLI](https://github.com/features/copilot/cli?utm_source=cli-install&utm_medium=changelog&utm_campaign=weekly-copilot-launches-aug-2026).\n\n[GitHub Copilot for JetBrains](#github-copilot-for-jetbrains)\n\n- Apply consistent enterprise controls for Copilot in JetBrains, including plugins, MCP servers, telemetry, and agent permission modes.\n\n[VS Code 1.135 release updates](#vs-code-1-135-release-updates)\n\n- Continue recent Copilot or Claude agent sessions from other applications in VS Code.\n- Get a second opinion from a complementary model to surface missed details and edge cases.\n- Stay focused on your work with a new single-pane Agents layout, simpler session controls, and session details that are easier to find.\n- See detailed chat usage by model for every chat turn.\n\nExplore everything that’s new with VS Code 1.135 in the full [release notes](https://aka.ms/VSCode/135).\n\n[GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio](#github-copilot-for-visual-studio)\n\n- Pin favorite models, hide unused ones, compare capabilities and costs, and adjust reasoning effort for each task.\n- Share custom agents across your organization to standardize workflows and improve discovery.\n- View Copilot plan consumption and manage premium model usage before reaching limits.\n- Review uncommitted changes or individual commits with the Git agent before opening a pull request.\n\nInstall the latest version of [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) with GitHub Copilot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-28-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24", "published_at": "2026-08-28 20:13:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 22:18:00.921860+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-agents", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["GitHub", "GitHub Copilot", "Microsoft Teams", "Slack", "JetBrains", "VS Code", "Visual Studio", "Rust"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24.jsonld"}}