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Copilot News 09/25/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

GitHub Copilot Usage Metrics Now Break Down Pull Request Review Timing

GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API added a pull_request_review_times array showing median and 90th-percentile durations for three review phases, letting organizations see whether PRs stall waiting for initial review, during discussion, or after approval.

Copilot News 09/25/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

GitHub Adds an In-Product Validator for Copilot Enterprise Managed Settings

GitHub added an in-product validator that checks Copilot enterprise managed settings for malformed JSON, unsupported configurations, and invalid team mappings before they cause policy enforcement to fail, covering both the main settings file and team-specific configuration files.

Copilot News 09/25/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

VS Code 1.139 Runs Copilot Agents in Dev Containers Over SSH, Tunnel, and WSL

GitHub's week-of-September-21 Copilot roundup highlights VS Code 1.139 letting agents execute inside Dev Containers across SSH, Tunnel, and WSL remote connections, alongside compact session-list views, filtering, and a preview layout for separate or unified chat panes.

Copilot News 09/25/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot in Slack and Teams Gains Broader Context and Duplicate-Issue Checks

GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams now draws on more conversation context (files, message links, channel/thread history), lets users switch models mid-conversation with persistent preferences, and checks for duplicate issues before creating new ones, in public preview for Business and Enterprise.

Copilot News 09/24/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot Adds a Global Default Policy for New Features

GitHub introduced a unified default policy letting enterprise admins choose whether new, unconfigured Copilot features are enabled, disabled, or delegated to individual organizations by default, taking effect October 22 after a 28-day configuration window.

Copilot News 09/23/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

GitHub Extends Copilot Code Review Configuration to Business and Enterprise Plans

GitHub gave Business and Enterprise Copilot plans the same personal code review settings previously limited to Pro, Pro+, and Max, letting individuals set automatic reviews and default effort levels, while enterprise admins can cascade organization-wide defaults.

Copilot News 09/23/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot App Adds Local Sandboxing to Limit Unintended Command Impact

GitHub Copilot's local sandboxing, now in public preview, restricts an agent session's filesystem access, network connectivity, and Git/GitHub credentials to reduce the blast radius of unintended commands, configurable per project or via a /sandbox command.

Copilot News 09/22/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Claude Opus 5.5 Arrives in GitHub Copilot, Matching Opus 5 in Fewer Steps

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 is now available across ten GitHub Copilot surfaces, resolving tasks comparably to Claude Opus 5 while using significantly fewer steps and tokens, with built-in text watermarking and strong error recovery in complex workflows.

Copilot News 09/22/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

GitHub Copilot CLI Speeds Up C++ Navigation With Whole Codebase Indexing

GitHub Copilot CLI now builds a persistent symbol index across entire C++ projects, letting the Microsoft C++ Language Server resolve types, symbols, and file relationships without repeatedly rediscovering them, speeding up finding definitions and references.