Copilot News 09/25/2026 AI Rating: Low

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

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GitHub’s week-of-September-21 Copilot roundup bundled the week’s major releases — Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol/Luna, and Grok 4.7 reaching Copilot, plus local sandboxing and Slack/Teams updates — alongside a VS Code update not covered elsewhere.

Details

  • VS Code 1.139 Dev Container support: Copilot agents can now execute inside Dev Containers across SSH, Tunnel, and WSL remote connections, extending agentic workflows to remote development setups that previously weren’t supported
  • Session organization: a compact view and filtering options for managing agent sessions
  • Layout preview: a new preview option lets users choose between separate or unified chat panes

What happened next

The Dev Container support closes a gap for developers who do remote development over SSH, Tunnel, or WSL rather than working directly on a local machine, letting Copilot’s agent features follow them into those environments.

Source https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-25-github-copilot-weekly-releases-september-21

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