Releases: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
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v0.43.0
v0.43.2026040705
v0.43.2026040702
Merge pull request #5018 from microsoft/lramos15/likely-gopher Remove window active middleware for now (#5009)
v0.43.2026040701
Changes:
- #5018: Remove window active middleware for now (#5009)
- #5009: Remove window active middleware for now
- #5011: [release/0.43] Guard reasoning effort parameter against unsupported models
- #4999: Fix: strip tool_search messages from summarization to prevent tool_reference errors
- #5000: Fix: count all tool tokens in budget and add summarization UserMessage priority
- #4834: Fix toolTokens over-counting when Anthropic Tool Search is enabled
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v0.43.2026040602
fix: discover AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at workspace roots (#4989) The provider only found copilot-instructions.md (via customInstructionsService.getAgentInstructions()). AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md live at the workspace root and are also agent instructions but weren't discovered. Now stats workspace roots for these files and includes them as agent-instructions items.
v0.43.2026040601
Changes:
- #4989: fix: discover AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at workspace roots
- #4974: fix: emit agent instructions in CopilotCLI customization provider
- #4988: Fix: only send tool_choice when tools are present in summarization
- #4985: nes: fix: use speculativeRequestDelay for cached speculative results
- #4904: nes: patch: fix: don't yield malformed edits on fetch fail/cancellation
- #4930: Update dependencies and improve session initialization in Copilot CLI
- #4967: make sure we only flush the confirmed tool call
- #4981: Fix background summarization fallback gaps and improve summarization budget
- #4791: add prommptC for vsc models and refine hash set with model family nam…
- #4973: Bump electron from 39.8.4 to 39.8.5
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- #4968: chatSessions: add backward compat guards for hooks and plugins APIs
- #4964: chatSessionsProvider: add groupKeys and badges for instructions in CLI customization provider
- #4966: Remove
forceExtendedThinkingexperiment config - #4962: feat: wire plugins through CopilotCLI customization provider
- #4950: Add explicit session type context for skills
- #4958: Update Anthropic SDK packages (@anthropic-ai/sdk 0.81.0→0.82.0, @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.2.81→0.2.91)
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v0.43.2026040304
Changes:
- #4952: feat: wire hooks through CopilotCLI customization provider
- #4956: Inline summarization: summarize within the agent loop for maximum prompt cache hits
- #4960: Sessions - provide additional context for the merge skill
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v0.43.2026040303
Changes:
- #4955: Bump electron from 37.8.0 to 39.8.4
- #4943: Add a new fetchedValue concept
- #4959: Address some PR comments from #4943
- #4949: edits: exp setup for improvements to multi sr
- #4945: fix: merge SDK anthropic-beta headers with base endpoint betas
- #4953: Prevent repeated foreground summarization after failure
- #4951: Updates to model
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v0.43.2026040301
Changes:
- #4946: Add
githubMcpServer.channelsetting for MCP Insiders mode - #4944: add
isSystemInitiatedand relevant changes - #4948: Aligning more terms and UI labels for new codebase index
- #4943: Add a new fetchedValue concept
- #4925: improve ChatSessionCustomizationProvider implementation
- #4942: Move docs/prompts.md to scoped .instructions.md file
- #4941: Make optimized Anthropic prompts the defaults for Claude 4.6
- #4928: update copilot-api and send
event_content - #4939: Sessions - update context keys
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v0.43.2026040204
Changes:
- #4917: Bump @anthropic-ai/sdk from 0.80.0 to 0.81.0
- #4915: Bump @anthropic-ai/sdk from 0.80.0 to 0.81.0 in /chat-lib
- #4936: Bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1
- #4934: Sessions - scaffold the new actions
- #4935: Rework status reporting for codebase index
- #4929: Agent Debug logging: detect mode changes, fix tools timing, add tool…
- #4932: feat: add updateArtifacts method to handle exit plan mode requests
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