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Allison announces new built-in timestamp fields in GitHub Projects—Created, Updated, and Closed—so teams can sort and filter project items based on when work was opened, last changed, or completed.

kinfey introduces “AgenticOps” using the microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot workshop, showing how six scoped GitHub Copilot Custom Coding Agents plus the remote Copilot Coding Agent can author specs, code, tests, and deployments with explicit ownership and refusal rules, gated by evals and CI/CD.

Peter Wilson from Mozilla AI joins GitHub’s Open Source Friday to discuss Project cq, an open standard aimed at helping AI agents persist, share, and query collective knowledge so they can reuse learnings instead of repeating the same failures.

Julia Kasper explains the “coding harness” that powers GitHub Copilot’s agent experience in VS Code: how prompts and workspace context are assembled, how tools are exposed and executed, and how the agent loop is controlled and evaluated as models and providers change.

Hidde de Smet breaks down what AI coding agents actually cost once GitHub Copilot switches to usage-based billing, including how credits map to tokens, why model choice changes your bill, and how to budget for agent-heavy teams without surprising finance.

mosiddi explains how the Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) tackles post-hoc accountability for autonomous agents: proving who authorized an action, what scope was delegated across multi-agent chains, and whether audit evidence was tampered with, using cryptographic identities, signed delegation links, and append-only audit logs.

Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s April 2026 availability incidents, including outages and degradations affecting code search, audit logs, Copilot services, Pages, Codespaces, Actions, and other platform features, with root causes and concrete follow-up actions to improve detection, resilience, and recovery.

Allison outlines upcoming GitHub Actions hosted runner image migrations, including GitHub taking over Arm64 runner image maintenance, a Windows runner move to Visual Studio 2026, and the macos-latest label shifting to macOS 26 with guidance on pinning specific images.

Gloridel Morales announces the May 2026 patch releases for Azure DevOps Server and lists the patched versions with download links and release notes, plus a quick command to verify whether a patch is installed on your server.

Allison announces a technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app, a GitHub-native desktop experience for running focused, isolated agentic coding sessions from issues and pull requests, then validating changes and landing them through normal PR review and checks.

Ayan Gupta shows how to take GitHub Copilot’s Java modernization workflow out of the IDE and run it at scale from the terminal, producing assessment reports, upgrade plans, diffs, and pull requests across many repositories, and wiring the process into repeatable CI/CD and scheduled jobs.

Natalie Guevara explains how the GitHub Issues team made navigation feel instant by shifting work to the client: an IndexedDB-backed cache with stale-while-revalidate, a “preheating” strategy to raise cache-hit rates without flooding the backend, and a service worker that accelerates Turbo and hard navigations.

Jim Harrer announces the VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, a hands-on evening build event designed to help teams ship real prototypes using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and agent-based patterns, with judging criteria that emphasize architecture, security, and practical value.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares the 1.121 (Insiders) release notes, covering Copilot Chat and agent terminal improvements, model picker updates, terminal output compression for common dev tools, SSH authentication enhancements, and a newer bundled ConPTY on Windows.

John Savill's Technical Training shares a single elevated WinGet command that upgrades all installed Windows apps in one go, including unknown packages, while automatically accepting package/source agreements and running silently.

SurenderSinghMalik breaks down recent Azure App Service (Linux) changes that make Python deployments faster and more reliable for AI-heavy workloads, including new compression and packaging defaults, fewer expensive file operations, and client-side improvements that reduce transient deployment failures.

GitHub hosts a “Rubber Duck Thursdays” chat session covering open source topics, GitHub Copilot discussion, and general developer coworking and news.

EfratNauerman announces a public preview update for the Azure Copilot Observability Agent in Azure Monitor, focused on using chat-driven investigations and exploration to speed up triage and root-cause analysis across logs, metrics, traces, and alerts in distributed systems.

TulikaC introduces Platform Release Channel for Azure App Service for Linux, a setting that lets teams control how quickly runtime patch updates are applied so they can balance security updates with validation time in production.

Authorised Territory demonstrates a .NET data ingestion pipeline that converts a PDF to Markdown via the MarkItDown MCP server, generates embeddings with a local Ollama model, and stores those embeddings in SQL Server 2025 running in Docker Desktop.

Rob Bos introduces the GitHub Copilot App technical preview and shares a practical first look at using it for repository maintenance, including parallel agent sessions, session modes (Interactive/Plan/Autopilot), and the Agent Merge workflow for handling CI failures, merge conflicts, and security-related alerts.

Rob gives a first look at the new GitHub Copilot desktop app, showing how it shifts Copilot work into a project-based, chat-first workflow. He demonstrates starting sessions from issues and PRs, running multiple concurrent worktrees, and letting Copilot plan, implement, and open pull requests with checks and merge handling.

Brigit Murtaugh introduces the VS Code Agents window (Preview), a dedicated VS Code window designed for an agent-first workflow where chat and session tracking are the main interface for coordinating higher-level tasks across projects.

RavinderGupta outlines a “self-healing” CI/CD pattern where an agent observes Azure DevOps pipeline failures, uses Azure OpenAI (via Microsoft AI Foundry) to analyze build logs, and then proposes or applies fixes—such as updating Terraform for Azure Internal Load Balancer configuration—by opening a pull request for review.

Allison announces a public preview REST API that lets GitHub Apps detect whether they’re installed on an enterprise and retrieve the enterprise installation ID, making it faster to obtain an enterprise installation token without paging through all installations.

Allison announces a public preview REST API that lets Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks programmatically, enabling custom automations that fan out work across repos and open pull requests with validated changes.

Allison announces the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21 release candidate, highlighting updates for enterprise admins and platform teams across governance, GitHub Projects, REST API versioning, GitHub Actions workflow UI performance, secret scanning permissions, and storage configuration for MySQL and repository data.

Iqra Shaikh explains why treating database schema changes like application code—stored in Git and shipped via pull requests—reduces risk and improves traceability, and how SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric supports this workflow with built-in Git integration for GitHub and Azure DevOps.

Ayan Gupta demonstrates how the GitHub Copilot app modernization extension containerizes a Java 21 application with Docker, validates it locally, and then provisions Azure infrastructure and deploys to Azure Container Apps using built-in tasks and an agent-driven workflow.

John Edward explains how GitHub Copilot changes team workflows around pull requests, code review expectations, and knowledge sharing. The article focuses on the trade-offs of faster AI-assisted coding, why review discipline matters more, and how teams can add guardrails like testing and security scanning without losing collaboration.

Microsoft Developer explains practical ALM patterns for taking Copilot Studio agents from experimentation to production, focusing on repeatable deployments, environment isolation, and governance-friendly configuration using solutions, environment variables, and connection references.

Jingwei Wang introduces “Open in VS Code” from Azure Copilot in the Azure Portal, a guided workflow that takes AI-generated Terraform configurations into an Azure-hosted VS Code environment so teams can validate, configure state backends, and deploy to Azure with fewer handoffs.

Allison summarizes what’s new in CodeQL 2.25.4 for GitHub code scanning, including Swift 6.3.1 support, improved C# and ASP.NET taint-flow modeling, expanded Java/Kotlin query sanitizers to reduce false positives, and new data-flow barrier extensions to tune results across many languages.

Kayla Cinnamon demonstrates how to use Visual Studio Code’s integrated browser to do web development without leaving the editor, including attaching browser tabs or specific UI elements to agent sessions to provide more context while you work.

Sandra Ahlgrimm explains how to customize GitHub Copilot’s modernization task lists so teams can modernize legacy Java apps safely: set constraints, split risky upgrades into smaller reviewable steps, validate the current state first, and ensure Copilot surfaces CVEs without making silent changes.

Allison announces the deprecation of GitHub’s synchronous SBOM REST endpoint and explains how to migrate scripts and integrations to the newer asynchronous SBOM report generation flow ahead of the November 13, 2026 removal date.

GitHub explains practical ways to contribute to open source projects without writing code, focusing on documentation work, improving examples, fixing typos, and helping answer questions so newcomers can start participating and learning right away.

Lee Reilly explains how he used GitHub Copilot CLI—especially /delegate—to build “GitHub Dungeons”, a GitHub CLI extension that turns any repository into a terminal roguelike. The post covers the core idea (seeded by commit SHA), how Copilot’s agent workflow fit into iteration, and the BSP approach used for dungeon generation.

kinfey explains why AI agents running model-generated code need stronger isolation than standard containers, then walks through deploying a GitHub Copilot SDK agent on AKS using Kata Containers (kata-vm-isolation) plus layered hardening like seccomp, NetworkPolicy egress allowlists, and deny-by-default tool permissions.

mohit-kanojia explains what AKS Arc is and how Azure Arc extends Azure’s control plane to run and manage Kubernetes on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud. The post covers core components (Arc agents, custom locations, logical networks), a CLI-driven deployment flow, and practical networking and troubleshooting guidance.