tlder@devGitHub Publishes Full Copilot April Releases Changelog for VS Code v1.116–v1.119
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GitHub Publishes Full Copilot April Releases Changelog for VS Code v1.116–v1.119

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GitHub's May 6 changelog consolidates every Copilot capability shipped across the v1.116–v1.119 VS Code cycle. Highlights include semantic search that queries any codebase or GitHub org by meaning, Chronicle — an experimental local database that indexes past chat sessions and referenced files — inline diff visualization inside chat threads, and support for connecting custom model providers via OpenRouter, Microsoft Foundry, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, or local Ollama instances. Agents gained the ability to read and write to existing foreground terminals, share live browser tabs for real-time validation, and be drafted from natural language descriptions. MCP server support now reads workspace-level .mcp.json files and deduplicates identically named servers. This single article supersedes the narrower VS Code 1.119 entry and offers a fuller picture of what accumulated across the month. The bring-your-own-model surface is particularly significant: teams running on-premises or non-OpenAI stacks can now swap providers without leaving the IDE. Chronicle and remote session monitoring via GitHub.com or the mobile app point toward persistent, cross-device agentic workflows — a pattern likely to accelerate as Copilot's agent mode matures.