# copilot-cli v1.0.81-7 — 1.0.81-7

- Product: copilot-cli (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/copilot-cli)
- Vendor: GitHub
- Date: 2026-08-21
- Version: v1.0.81-7
- Original notes: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.81-7
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/copilot-cli/releases/v1.0.81-7
- Labels: Pre-release

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- **added** — Startup now offers to restore sessions that were still open when their CLI went away, so a crash or a machine restart no longer means reopening each terminal by hand
- **added** — models.list now includes service-published infoMessages and warningMessages per model
- **added** — Add copilot app to open the GitHub Copilot app in the current directory
- **changed** — Use Ctrl+Space to toggle voice dictation
- **changed** — A session sandboxed by an enterprise managed policy now says so on the timeline, including when the policy arrives mid-session, instead of leaving the footer's sandbox chip as the only hint that commands are being restricted
- **changed** — forceRemoteSettingsRefresh now fails closed: when set, the cached managed-settings policy is never served or used as a fetch-failure fallback, so a failed startup fetch blocks on the unconfirmed policy instead of reverting to a possibly-stale cached one, and the session applies the restrictive undetermined-policy posture
- **fixed** — An enterprise managed-settings policy is no longer rejected when permissions.disableBypassPermissionsMode carries an unrecognized value; it is now logged and enforced as disable
- **fixed** — Sandboxed builds on Windows create their scratch caches on first run, so cargo, go, Gradle, and ccache work without a warm cache
- **fixed** — On macOS and Linux, shell commands resolve the same tools a bash login shell does, including project environments activated from a profile

**Added**
- Startup now offers to restore sessions that were still open when their CLI went away, so a crash or a machine restart no longer means reopening each terminal by hand
- models.list now includes service-published infoMessages and warningMessages per model
- Add `copilot app` to open the GitHub Copilot app in the current directory

**Improved**
- Use Ctrl+Space to toggle voice dictation.
- A session sandboxed by an enterprise managed policy now says so on the timeline, including when the policy arrives mid-session, instead of leaving the footer's sandbox chip as the only hint that commands are being restricted
- forceRemoteSettingsRefresh now fails closed: when set, the cached managed-settings policy is never served or used as a fetch-failure fallback (skipping both the 1h fast path and the 24h stale fallback), so a failed startup fetch blocks on the unconfirmed policy instead of reverting to a possibly-stale cached one. Concretely, until a fresh policy is fetched the session applies the restrictive undetermined-policy posture: non-default MCP servers are blocked, bypass-permissions mode cannot be enabled, and policy-gated plugin install/update mutations are blocked

**Fixed**
- An enterprise managed-settings policy is no longer rejected when `permissions.disableBypassPermissionsMode` carries an unrecognized value; it is now logged and enforced as `disable`.
- Sandboxed builds on Windows create their scratch caches on first run, so cargo, go, Gradle, and ccache work without a warm cache
- On macOS and Linux, shell commands resolve the same tools a bash login shell does, including project environments activated from a profile