Breaking Changes

• The AI platform related features in the Ask mode chat participant has been removed. If you still need any of those capabilities, you can switch to Agent mode and use the Foundry tools in Azure MCP.

Features and improvements

• The azure_applens-diagnose_resource, azure_activity_log-list and azure_cli-generate_azure_cli_command Agent mode tools have been moved to Azure MCP server. If you need these capabilities, you can use these corresponding tools from Azure MCP applens_resource_diagnose, monitor_activitylog_list, and extension_cli_generate.
• We migrated our custom LLM instructions to use the new instructions contribution point. Existing instructions will be removed from the deprecated user settings.
• Fixed incorrect tool names in the custom chat mode files.

(#67beb870/0.2.589)

Features & Improvements

• Consolidated 7 authentication context related tools to 2 tools for getting and setting authentication context.
• Tweaked the recommendation logic for Azure Functions custom chat mode to avoid recommending it at inappropriate times.
• Updated outdated tool names in the custom chat modes.
• Fixed an issue where Azure Functions custom chat mode is recommended in AWS Lambda migration scenarios.

(#d31db86e/0.2.580)

Features & Improvements

• Updated all the tool reference names in custom chat modes to reflect the tool name changes.
• Added a new custom chat mode to help Azure Static Web App development and deployment.
• The AWS Lambda migration custom prompts now reference the AWS Lambda migration custom chat mode.

(#f7913394/0.2.580)

Features & Improvements

• Updated all the reference to bestpractices tool to get_bestpractices to reflect the tool name change.

(#912d35bd/0.2.575)

Features & Improvements

• Updated Azure_function_codegen_and_deployment custom mode
  • Updated the tool list
  • Added detailed consumption plan instruction
  • Added model to use for this custom mode

(#912d35bd/0.2.575)

Features & Improvements

• Refined copilot instructions, so that bestpractices tool and summarize_topic tool are called for desired azure topics at the desired stage of the workflow in agent mode.

(#912d35bd/0.2.575)

Features & Improvements

• Add a tool that can search Azure Verified Module in Bicep to augment the Bicep generation.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where switching the tenant in Ask mode doesn't reset the subscription cache.

(#183a1779/0.2.564)

Features & Improvements

• GitHub Copilot for Azure extension now depends on the Azure MCP Server extension to bring Azure MCP tools. Azure MCP server now exposes less number of tools by collapsing tools of the same namespace into one single tool for each namespace to help reduce the chance of hitting the 128 tool count limit.
• Added topic based custom chat mode recommendation for AWS Lambda migration and Azure Functions code generation and deployment.

(#00e1817f/0.2.564)

Features & Improvements

• Updated Azure MCP to 0.4.1. On extension activation, GitHub Copilot for Azure will detect if a separate instance of Azure MCP is installed and stop registering its Azure MCP server to avoid duplicating tools.
• Added a custom chat mode to help with Azure Functions code generation and deployment, and a custom chat mode with custom prompts to help with migrating AWS Lambda to Azure Functions.
• Redesigned the walkthrough to introduce how to use the extension features in Agent mode.

(#a05fee44/0.2.564)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the GitHub Copilot in Deploy to Azure custom chat mode to not be able to edit files or run terminal commands.
• Disabled non-readonly tools from Azure MCP server.

(#edeb788c/0.2.558)