GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.5

GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.5 was released on .

Summary

2026-03-13 - Terminal title resets to default after running /clear or /new - Add /extensions command to view, enable, and disable CLI extensions - @ file mentions now support paths outside the proj...

Release Context

  • This was the 50th GitHub Copilot CLI release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.4 (March 11, 2026).

Shipped around the same time

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Release Notes

2026-03-13 - Terminal title resets to default after running /clear or /new - Add /extensions command to view, enable, and disable CLI extensions - @ file mentions now support paths outside the project: absolute paths (@/usr/...), home directory (@~/...), and relative parent paths (@../...) - Toggling experimental mode with /experimental on|off automatically restarts the CLI to apply changes immediately - Right-click paste goes to the active dialog input instead of the main conversation input - Introducing /pr to help create and view PRs, automatically fix CI failures, address review feedback, and resolve merge conflicts - Block network (UNC) paths to prevent credential leakage via SMB authentication - Send follow-up messages to background agents with the writeagent tool for multi-turn conversations - Memory storage errors now indicate when repository doesn't exist or you lack write access - Show a clear error when a classic Personal Access Token (ghp\) is set in environment variables instead of silently exiting - Diff view displays correctly on Windows instead of showing corrupted/overwritten text - Fix Kitty keyboard protocol escape sequences appearing at shutdown - Setting claude-sonnet-4.6 as the default model is now preserved correctly - Plugin uninstall reliably removes files using the stored install path - Add /version command to display CLI version and check for updates from within the session - Add experimental embedding-based dynamic retrieval of MCP and skill instructions per turn - Syntax highlighting in /diff with support for 17 programming languages - Add preCompact hook to run commands before context compaction starts - Request ID from the API now appears in the timeline when errors occur after retries are exhausted - PR descriptions with backtick-formatted code render correctly on Windows/PowerShell - Show a helpful error message when a file path is passed as a CLI command - Session reports an authentication error instead of hanging when the token is invalid or expired - View tool shows partial content for large single-line files (e.g. minified JS, large JSON blobs) instead of empty output - /changelog supports last <N>, since <version>, and summarize to browse and summarize multiple release notes at once - Hooks config files that omit the version field are now accepted by the CLI

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