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.
.NET
2026-04-29
VSTest will remove its Newtonsoft.Json dependency in .NET 11 and Visual Studio 18.8. The post says it explains who is affected and how to adjust to the change.
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.
2026-04-01
GPT-5.4 mini is now generally available to Copilot Student users through Copilot auto model selection. It is included in Auto for GitHub Copilot Chat in supported clients such as Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio.
2026-03-12
Microsoft introduced the modernize-dotnet agent to help assess apps, generate upgrade plans, and modernize .NET projects. It is available in Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and GitHub.
2026-02-25
GPT-5.3-Codex is generally available for GitHub Copilot paid tiers and can be used via Copilot Chat across github.com, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio.
2026-02-17
Visual Studio can now delegate coding tasks to GitHub Copilot coding agent, which runs asynchronously in the cloud and produces a draft pull request.