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Allison announces generally available improvements to GitHub Issues label management, aimed at making issue triage faster in repositories with large label sets.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot code review, including support for automatically requested reviews on bot-authored pull requests (including Copilot cloud agent), removal of previous large-PR size limits, and new resolution-reason options to provide feedback when closing Copilot review comments.
Allison announces a GitHub Actions retention change taking effect October 1, 2026: checks, workflow runs, and statuses will be deleted according to the same retention setting used for artifacts and logs (default 90 days), instead of being kept for 400+ days.
DevClass reviews Kubernetes v1.37 (Garhwal), focusing on production-readiness changes like the Metrics API reaching GA, upcoming removals of kube-dns, IPVS mode in kube-proxy, and cgroup v1, plus new features around autoscaling, watch cache behavior, and stricter YAML conventions via KYAML.
Kristen Womack and Jeffrey C. summarize the August 2026 Azure Developer CLI (azd) releases, including the GA extension framework, new container deployment options for Azure Functions, breaking command/telemetry terminology changes, and a long list of provisioning, pipeline, and interactive UX fixes.
Sam Basu explains how Uno Platform built two MCP servers in C#—one for documentation grounding and one for driving a live app—so AI agents can look up accurate APIs, run and inspect a cross-platform .NET UI, and validate changes instead of just generating code.
Allison announces a GitHub moderation improvement that lets you automatically close all open issues, discussions, and pull requests authored by a user when you block them in a personal account or organization.
Peter Steinberger and the OpenClaw maintainers discuss how they scaled a viral open source project on GitHub, including handling large volumes of pull requests, setting up governance, and meeting enterprise security expectations while keeping the project model-neutral.
Mads Torgersen introduces union types coming in C# 15, showing how they let you model a closed set of unrelated types, create union values, and switch over them with full strong typing. He also points to a preview compiler you can try in Visual Studio and VS Code.
Kayla Cinnamon recaps the Windows developer announcements from Build 2026, including a new Intelligent Terminal aimed at agent workflows, a WSL-based native container solution, core command-line utilities coming to Windows, and WinGet configuration for one-pass dev machine setup.
Microsoft Developer walks through day-to-day database change workflows using SQL projects in VS Code, focusing on safer refactoring, catching errors early with IntelliSense, and generating publish scripts and profiles to deploy schema changes across environments.
Mads Torgersen introduces union types coming in C# 15, showing how they let you model a closed set of unrelated types, create union values, and switch over them with full strong typing, with notes on trying the feature today via preview tooling in Visual Studio and VS Code.
Gregg Cochran shares lessons from OpenClaw’s maintainers on what changes when an AI-driven open source project scales fast: how pull requests turn into “prompt requests,” what new trust signals look like, and how to reduce supply chain risk while keeping agent capabilities safe by default.
robece-msft continues the Microsoft Fabric Business Events series by showing how to react to business events using Fabric Activator and Eventhouse, focusing on practical event-driven patterns for turning event streams into signals and actions across Fabric.
Alym Rayani rounds up August 2026 updates across Microsoft Security, including expanded Microsoft Defender Experts coverage via Microsoft Sentinel, new Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance capabilities, Intune endpoint-management improvements, higher-throughput Purview auto-labeling, and new Secure Now guidance for containing agentic activity.
Scott Hanselman walks through diagnosing unexpectedly slow 10GbE file transfers by isolating storage from networking with iperf3, then fixing a Windows NIC bottleneck by increasing receive buffers and disabling Large Send Offload (LSO) V2 for IPv4 on an Intel E610-XT2 adapter.
Wes Steyn shows how to take a Microsoft Agent Framework “claw” from a working local prototype to something you can actually run for other people: one shared agent factory feeding multiple hosts, with OpenTelemetry observability, Purview governance, Foundry hosting, and repeatable evals for quality and regression checks.
James Rempt recaps VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 with the main themes developers discussed—AI across the workflow, GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio, and practical .NET modernization—and links to recorded sessions on performance, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, C#, and an MCP-based SQL agent scenario.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on adjusting editor and terminal font sizes independently, so you can make text larger or smaller without zooming the entire VS Code interface.
John Naguib lays out a practical architecture for building self-improving AI agents on Azure, focusing on controlled feedback loops (evaluate, learn, test, approve) rather than uncontrolled self-modification. The guide covers agent runtime, tool calling, RAG, memory/experience stores, evaluation, observability, and governance for production use.
AbhinavPremsekhar explains how to run authenticated browser workflows for Azure AI Foundry agents without exposing credentials to the model, using Browser Automation Tool (BAT) with Playwright Workspaces and Azure Key Vault. The post focuses on secret storage, RBAC access, just-in-time retrieval, and practical security guardrails.
Dan Hellem announces an Azure DevOps plugin for the GitHub Copilot app, letting teams view and manage Azure DevOps work items and pull requests directly inside Copilot, including opening, editing, and completing PRs without switching tools.
GitHub explores the GitHub Copilot Teams integration with Slack, focusing on how teams can bring Copilot into their existing collaboration workflow.
tejabhutada explains how to sync multiple Azure DevOps organizations into a single ServiceNow instance without forcing teams onto a shared Azure DevOps process, outlining common multi-org scenarios, what to evaluate (filters, mappings, conflicts, security), and practical implementation options from webhooks to Azure-based middleware.
Allison announces a GitHub Copilot enterprise management update that lets admins enable automatic updates for specific plugin marketplaces via enterprise-managed settings, reducing manual maintenance while still enforcing marketplace allowlisting.
Authorised Territory demonstrates how to build a multi-agent AI code review workflow in .NET using Microsoft Agent Framework, coordinating specialist security, performance, and architecture reviewers via background agents. The setup runs fully locally with Ollama and adds OpenTelemetry tracing so you can see what each agent is doing during the review.
Allison announces general availability of GitHub Copilot’s global model policy for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, including how default enablement is enforced, how unconfigured models inherit policy state, and which model types are excluded from default enablement due to open-weight or data-retention constraints.
Microsoft Developer shares a quick news update covering Agent Optimizer in Microsoft Foundry, the GA release of Agent Plugins 1.0 across multiple Copilot surfaces, and a timeline note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 will leave most GitHub Copilot experiences on September 1.
Microsoft Developer announces MCP Live on Sept 9th, with agenda and event details available via the official link and streaming on the Microsoft Developer and VS Code YouTube channels.
Christopher Harrison shows how to use GitHub Copilot app automations to triage Dependabot pull requests on a schedule, so teams can quickly separate low-risk updates from changes that need deeper review.
Microsoft Security Research, Yash Gund and Sumith Maniath break down real-world attacks against exposed AI workloads (LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra), showing how gateways and orchestration layers become credential-rich control planes. The post maps intrusion chains, IOCs, and MITRE techniques, then provides concrete mitigations and Defender hunting queries.
murray-kp rounds up the August 2026 Microsoft Fabric updates across OneLake, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Factory, and Fabric data agents, including Git-based CI/CD improvements, Spark runtime upgrades, new security controls, and expanded AI-driven conversational analytics capabilities.
Harshada Hole introduces a new Test-Driven Investigation workflow for the Visual Studio Debugger Agent, aimed at making hard-to-reproduce bugs repeatable by capturing them in an automated test and then using that test to drive debugging, validate the fix, and check for regressions.
Steve Sweetman breaks down four practical levers in Microsoft Foundry for reducing the cost of agentic AI in production: routing each request to the right model, caching repeated prompt content, optimizing prompts and agent configurations, and using observability plus evaluation to measure cost per outcome.
perirocha announces general availability of IDENTITY columns in Fabric Data Warehouse, adding IDENTITY_INSERT and reseed operations to support common migration and enterprise warehousing patterns, especially where preserving surrogate key values is required across dimension and fact tables.
atiy explains Traffic Manager linked records, a public preview feature that lets Azure DNS return Traffic Manager-selected A/AAAA answers directly (without an intermediate trafficmanager.net CNAME). The post walks through a small multi-region lab, portal configuration steps, DNS query validation, and a simple failover test to prove the record stays health-aware.
Dan Hellem announces the public preview of GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos and explains what’s changed since the technical preview, including new onboarding controls, support for Managed DevOps Pools, custom review instructions, automatic reviews via branch policies, and improved Azure Cost Management visibility.
Eduard van Valkenburg introduces “channels” in Microsoft Agent Framework for Python, showing how to expose the same agent or workflow through multiple interfaces like OpenAI Responses, Telegram, A2A, and MCP while keeping routing, auth, storage, and deployment under application control.
The Visual Studio Code Team shares a small update for the VS Code 1.136 Insiders release notes, highlighting a UI change in VS Code Chat where the Artifacts pill icon now uses a package symbol to better represent generated outputs from the current session.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s Test Explorer to quickly filter tests, locate a failing test from CI, debug the failure, inspect results, and rerun the test without leaving the editor.