Added
- Load personal hooks from ~/.copilot/hooks in addition to repo-level .github/hooks
- Add copy_on_select config option to auto-copy selected text to clipboard in alt screen mode
- Add exitPlanMode.request protocol method for SDK plan approval support
- Automatic notifications when background shell commands and agents complete
- Press Ctrl+R to search command history with reverse incremental search (like Bash)
- Add startup prompt hooks to auto-submit prompts or slash commands when a session starts
- Support enabledPlugins in config for automatic plugin installation at startup
- Support installing plugins from ssh:// URLs
- Session usage metrics (requests, tokens, code changes) are now persisted to events.jsonl after each session ends
Improved
- Show a clear, actionable error message when git is not installed and a remote plugin or marketplace is used
- Text selection persists after copying to clipboard in alt screen
- Reduce memory usage in alt-screen mode for long sessions
- @-mention file completion always reflects the current state of the working directory
- Links in alt-screen mode are rendered with underline styling for better visibility
- /delegate prompts for a target remote in multi-remote repositories and clarifies confirmation text
- Hide noisy todo bookkeeping queries and show dependency details in timeline
- Rename
launch_messagesconfig setting tocompanyAnnouncements - Show a waiting message when the terminal is handed to an external editor
- Rename repository config from
.github/copilot/config.jsontosettings.json
Fixed
- Plugin cache automatically recovers from a corrupted or incomplete clone without manual intervention
- IME candidate windows appear at correct cursor position in CJK input
- Opening links on Windows correctly handles URLs with & query parameters
- ESC key to cancel works correctly in tmux and other non-kitty terminals
- GitHub MCP server stays enabled in repositories that have both Azure DevOps and GitHub remotes
- Colons in inline code render correctly inside markdown tables
- Plugin-contributed LSP servers are now loaded, started, and shown in /lsp show
- Pressing Enter in required enum field now selects the highlighted option
- CLI no longer hangs for minutes when working in a directory with a large number of files
- GitHub MCP server connection status is accurately tracked and counted in the status indicator
- Ctrl+K joins lines when cursor is at end of line, matching standard Emacs/terminal behavior
- Escape sequences split across input chunks no longer leak into text input