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Windows 11 arm64 with VS2026 goes GA on GitHub-hosted runners

GitHub Actions promoted its Windows 11 arm64 image with Visual Studio 2026 to general availability on both standard and larger GitHub-hosted runners. For teams shipping native ARM Windows binaries out of CI, the self-hosted detour stops being the only option.

Aug 24, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Developer experience

A running cost meter and an MCP tripwire land in Visual Studio's June update

Visual Studio's June Stable Channel update adds a real-time Copilot usage window with configurable alerts and a trust check that pauses MCP servers whose configuration has changed between sessions. Both arrive in the same weeks engineers have been posting screenshots of surprise Copilot invoices after GitHub moved to usage-based billing on June 1.

Jul 11, 2026 · Priya Nair