After upgrading GitHub Copilot CLI to `v1.0.46`, the CLI is no longer usable in my environment.

[softwarezhen]

Describe the bug

It starts, prints the normal startup banner, but then immediately reports:

✗ Failed to start MCP Servers: Error: Cannot find native binding. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies (npm/cli#4828). Please try npm i again after removing both package-lock.json and node_modules directory.

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.46.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Version
GitHub Copilot CLI: 1.0.46
Previous version that worked: older versions / JS entry path still works in my environment
Installed globally with npm

Environment
OS: Linux
Architecture: x64
Node: v24.14.0
npm: installed globally with Node 24
glibc on system is relatively old

Expected behavior

✗ Failed to start MCP Servers: Error: Cannot find native binding. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies (npm/cli#4828). Please try npm i again after removing both package-lock.json and node_modules directory.

Additional context

No response

[plt12138]

Same here.

Version: v1.0.46/copilot-linux-x64.tar.gz
Environment
OS: Linux (Ubuntu20.04)
Architecture: x64
Node: v22.14.0

[atariq6298]

Same here. Running Copilot on Python anywhere server:
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.46
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

[ansjkarlsso]

Same here on Rocky Linux using pre-packaged binary https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/download/v1.0.46/copilot-linux-x64.tar.gz

EDIT: I got it working by removing ~/.cache/copilot/pkg. Just removing ~/.copilot or using old binaries did not work.

[pawelorszulik7]

Update to prerelease helped me: /update prerelease in prompt

[timumbach-bp]

Update to prerelease helped me: /update prerelease in prompt

Thank you, that fixed it fore me as well (on a Vertex VM instance)