GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.61

GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.61 was released on .

Summary

2026-06-09 - Polish /agents picker and Create New Agent wizard with consistent borders, headers, and styled inputs - Fixed a bug where resuming a session could leave the screen blank - Add /setting...

Release Context

  • This was the 104th GitHub Copilot CLI release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 4 days after GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.60 (June 5, 2026).

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Release Notes

2026-06-09 - Polish /agents picker and Create New Agent wizard with consistent borders, headers, and styled inputs - Fixed a bug where resuming a session could leave the screen blank - Add /settings interactive dialog to browse and edit all user settings in one place - Resuming a local session with memory disabled no longer crashes the UI to a blank screen - /after and /every commands now appear in the /experimental slash command list - Auto-load MCP servers from .github/mcp.json workspace config file - /env output hides internal hooks and shows full file paths for hook sources - Prevent crashes from malformed UTF-8, oversized string buffers, and terminal disconnect errors - Add support for Claude Fable 5 model - Gemini models work correctly with MCP tools that use nullable schema types - Number-key selection in pickers (e.g. /agent) works for items 10 and beyond - GitHub issue and PR references inside existing links no longer create broken nested autolinks - Bash tool correctly handles multi-byte UTF-8 characters (em dash, curly quotes, etc.) in command input - Symlinked directories now appear in @-file picker suggestions - MCP OAuth re-authentication correctly uses the saved OAuth client ID for remote servers - Pasted images no longer leak into the main prompt after a permission dialog closes - Press '/' in the /agent picker to filter agents by name - Configure home tab bar visibility, order, and hidden tabs via the tabs setting in settings.json - grep and glob tools correctly handle single path arguments, preventing missed search results - Hook progress status lines marked as temporary collapse in place instead of accumulating in the conversation timeline - /fork shows a "Creating fork..." progress notification while the fork is being created - /mcp search works correctly with external registries - Use natural language with /every and /after to schedule tasks using cron expressions, calendar times, or relative durations - Light theme secondary background color is now rendered correctly - Search bar match count stays inside the prompt frame - GitHub theme adapts to light terminals with an authentic GitHub Primer light color palette - Add mTLS and private-CA support for OTLP telemetry export over HTTPS - Fixed false positives in shell command validation that could block harmless commands containing words like "kill" in string literals or embedded documents (heredocs). - Add full screen scrollbar - Grep searches in large monorepos use an indexed search engine for significantly faster results - /sessions now navigates to the Sessions tab instead of opening an overlay - Add http/protobuf OTLP HTTP export via standard OTel protocol env vars - Prompt mode surfaces model-load errors on stderr instead of exiting silently - Add /worktree command (aliased /move) to create a new git worktree and switch into it, moving any uncommitted changes along - Plugin install enforces managed marketplace policy even when settings cannot be fetched due to network errors - /help now lists $HOME/.copilot/instructions//.instructions.md alongside the other user-level instruction locations - Colors render correctly in WSL and tmux sessions instead of falling back to a degraded palette - Exit shell mode by pressing Esc or Ctrl+C on an empty prompt, in addition to Backspace - Add beepOnSchedule setting to disable completion beeps for scheduled /every and /after runs

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