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ai: What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-05-12

April 2026 Microsoft Foundry updates include Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 support with default Tier 5 and Tier 6 quota, and new tracing, monitoring, and evaluation features for agents. The release also adds CodeAct with Hyperlight for sandboxed code execution and SDK updates for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, and Java.

April (4)

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — April update

GitHub

2026-04-30

The April 2026 GitHub Copilot update for Visual Studio focuses on agentic workflows. It adds direct cloud agent sessions from the IDE, user-level support for custom agents, and a new Debugger agent for validation.

github: View and manage agent sessions from issues and projects

GitHub

2026-04-23

GitHub now lets you view and steer cloud agent sessions directly from issues and projects. This adds visibility into agent activity without leaving the current workflow.

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — March update

GitHub

2026-04-02

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio got extensibility updates in the March 2026 release, including custom agents, agent skills, and new tools that improve agent capabilities.

github: GitHub Mobile: Faster, more flexible agent assignment from issues

GitHub

2026-04-01

GitHub Mobile adds an Assign an Agent option in the issue overflow menu, making it faster to delegate work from an issue. The update is focused on quicker access to agent assignment and more flexible delegation from mobile.

March (7)

github: Agent activity in GitHub Issues and Projects

GitHub

2026-03-26

GitHub added support for surfacing coding agent sessions in Issues and Projects, so agent activity can be tracked directly in planning workflows. The update includes agent sessions shown under assignees in GitHub Issues and agent activity integration in GitHub Projects.

dotnet: Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10

.NET

2026-03-23

Microsoft announced Version 2 of Generative AI for Beginners .NET, a free course rebuilt for .NET 10. It adds Microsoft.Extensions.AI, updated RAG patterns, and new agent framework content across five lessons focused on production-ready AI apps.

k8s: Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Kubernetes SIG Apps is developing Agent Sandbox, a new API for singleton, stateful AI agent workloads that need persistent identity, isolation, and suspend/resume behavior. The project adds a Sandbox CRD plus extensions like warm pools to reduce cold starts and support untrusted code execution.

dotnet: Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills

.NET

2026-03-09

Microsoft introduced the dotnet/skills repository, describing a set of .NET “agent skills” intended to extend coding agents and improve agent-driven development workflows.

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code v1.110 – February release

GitHub

2026-03-06

Changelog entry for GitHub Copilot in VS Code v1.110 (February 2026) indicates improvements that make Copilot agents more practical for longer-running, more complex tasks, with more control over agent execution and new extensibility options.

github: Discover and manage agent activity with new session filters

GitHub

2026-03-05

GitHub Enterprise AI Controls and the agent control plane add new session filters to help enterprises find and manage agent activity.

github: Add images to agent sessions

GitHub

2026-03-05

GitHub agent sessions now support starting from an image by adding it directly in the agent UI on github.com.