v1.0.26

What's new in v1.0.26

Highlights

• New "New session" and "Open session" actions let you hand off an issue or pull request link to a new or existing session without leaving your current one.
• Added a project MCP settings section to view connection status, sign in via OAuth, refresh, and enable or disable MCP servers from a trusted repository.
• The pull request Changes tab now supports commit navigation to step through individual commits and diffs, plus a review progress indicator.
• Cloud automations now support scheduling daily and weekly runs at quarter-hour times, matching local automation scheduling.
• The /allow-all-tools and /yolo slash commands now accept on, off, and show arguments to set or check a session's tool approval mode.

Added

• Added "New session" and "Open session" actions to the right-click menu on Copilot's "Issue created" pill and on any GitHub issue or pull request link inside a session, so you can hand a reference off to a new or existing session without leaving the current one.
• Added a project MCP settings section so you can view connection status, sign in via OAuth, refresh, and enable or disable MCP servers defined in a trusted repository.
• Added commit navigation to the pull request Changes tab, letting you step through individual commits and view their diffs, plus a review progress indicator showing how many files you've reviewed.
• Cloud automations now support scheduling daily and weekly runs at quarter-hour times (e.g. :15, :30, :45), matching local automation scheduling.
• External links can now open a new chat with a prompt, after you confirm the request.
• The /allow-all-tools and /yolo slash commands now accept on, off, and show arguments to set or check a session's tool approval mode.

Changed

• Auto-resolved merge conflict replies now show the app attribution as a highlighted note instead of italicized text.
• Improved keyboard and screen reader accessibility in the My Work list view, including clearer row labels and an announced "new updates" notification.
• Improved the merge panel with clearer merge status, review, and check details, plus a new section showing uncommitted local and remote file changes with a quick way to view them.
• Markdown tables now support the same row, column, and alignment controls in every composer, and inserting a new column keeps header styling intact.
• Simplified the "No changes to compare" empty state in the changes panel to a cleaner, less cluttered view.

Fixed

• Added accessible names to form fields that previously relied only on placeholder text, so screen readers can announce them correctly.
• Changing the model, reasoning effort, or context tier while a session is busy now waits to apply until the session is idle, instead of risking the change being lost or applied inconsistently.
• Command palette dialogs now announce their name and result count to screen readers
• Disabled switches in settings, and settings lists like keyboard shortcuts and skills, are now properly announced and reachable by screen readers.
• Fixed a brief empty flash when reopening the details panel in My Work for a previously viewed pull request or issue.
• Fixed a brief visual jump in the conversation view when opening a chat scrolled to the bottom.
• Fixed a crash on Windows that could occur when previewing certain local web content.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dropping or pasting a file into the message composer while the selected text changed
• Fixed a crash that could occur when reloading or saving Excel files.
• Fixed a false "Couldn't copy the code automatically" message during device code sign-in.
• Fixed a race where late messages from a previous session could still be processed briefly after switching away from it.
• Fixed an intermittent brief scroll jump in the conversation transcript, most noticeable when switching between sessions.
• Fixed an issue where a newly created subsession could appear in the sidebar but never actually start its task.
• Fixed an issue where subscribed users could be incorrectly shown a "Copilot subscription required" error when starting a remote session.
• Fixed background agents in the composer pill showing an incorrect, ever-growing duration and lingering indefinitely after being abandoned.
• Fixed composer pills (Changes, Workflow, PR, Issue, Plan, Queued, Background, and overflow) appearing transparent instead of solid when hovered.
• Fixed embedded diffs for multiline pull request review comments so they show the correct GitHub line numbers and affected range instead of restarting at line 1.
• Fixed external links (like "Explore plans" and documentation links) not opening on some Linux distributions.
• Fixed messages sent from another session sometimes appearing as plain user messages instead of showing which session they came from.
• Fixed My Work repo selections and saved section filters getting dropped after a GitHub repo is renamed or transferred.
• Fixed pull request and issue views occasionally getting stuck showing stale data when real-time updates silently stopped arriving.
• Fixed sessions occasionally hanging forever during startup, mid-turn, or resume, and improved shutdown and git checkout speed on machines with many sessions or large repositories.
• Fixed sessions sometimes getting permanently stuck when resuming, and added a "Restart session" option to recover if resuming fails.
• Fixed Settings opening behind (and hidden from screen readers behind) the New Automation dialog when opened from within it.
• Fixed sign-in and canvas links not opening a browser on some Linux distributions.
• Fixed the "Last run" and "Next run" time details in the automation details popover so the exact timestamp is properly announced by screen readers and can be dismissed without closing the whole popover.
• Fixed the agent being unable to read from or write to a terminal you had opened yourself, which previously caused it to open a separate hidden terminal instead.
• Fixed the AI credits usage popup so it can be opened and used with the keyboard and works correctly with screen readers.
• Fixed the composer keeping a selection you added to a new side chat in place, along with anything typed while it loaded, instead of scattering the text around it.
• Fixed the copy button not copying text to the clipboard on some X11 Linux desktops
• Fixed the feedback textarea's screen reader label so it matches the visible "Report a bug or suggest a feature" heading.
• Fixed the keyboard copy shortcut not copying selected conversation text when the selection popup was open.
• Fixed the My Work detail panel toggle so it stays aligned with header actions, shows a tooltip when closed, and keeps its icon static when closing.
• Fixed the right panel and its toggle being unavailable for worktree sessions that already had a diff or pull request.
• Fixed the session preview popup lingering on screen after collapsing the sidebar.
• Fixed the Settings dialog appearing behind the workspace side drawer instead of on top of it.
• Fixed the system tray icon being invisible on dark panels on Linux.
• Fixed tools installed via the login shell profile (e.g. custom PATH entries) not being found by extensions on Linux.
• Hid the "Re-run" action for checks that GitHub doesn't allow re-running, preventing an error when clicked.
• In Streamer Mode, the usage gauge now shows a clear hidden-usage icon instead of a barely visible ring, and its hover popover correctly shows "Usage hidden" instead of a misleading plan name.
• Issue label, assignee, type, sub-issue, and close/reopen controls now respect your actual permissions instead of appearing editable when you don't have access.
• Made the reset time in the token usage quota popup accessible to screen readers, so activating it announces the full reset date instead of only revealing it on hover.
• Pasting a GitHub Gist URL into the composer now creates a proper gist reference instead of being incorrectly split into a repository reference.
• Screen readers now announce the currently active sidebar view (Home, My work, Automations, Extensions).
• Settings search no longer shows results for subsettings that are currently hidden, such as notification sound options, keep-awake grace period, or recent model history.
• Switching back to a chat session with an open file editor no longer shows a loading flash while the file reloads.
• The automation dialog now announces "Unsaved changes" to screen readers when you edit a field.