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Official source: GitHub Changelog — Copilot label (RSS available)
From a Slack or Teams conversation, @GitHub can investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes and open pull requests. Teams adds Canvas to review implementation plans, code changes and previews; issues and pull requests it creates now name the conversation they came from.
Admins can read and update Copilot code review settings through the APIs, from enterprise policy down to individual repositories. Enterprise and organization endpoints don't support GitHub Apps or fine-grained personal access tokens. Code review agent sessions now show the AI credits consumed.
Copilot now works inside Xcode's own coding assistant, set up under Xcode > Settings > Intelligence. It starts with Xcode 27.3 beta, needs macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later and supports all Copilot plans. The separate Copilot for Xcode extension remains available.
You can delegate coding tasks to Copilot, guide them and review the results inside JetBrains Air, through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
Through a GitHub or Microsoft account team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud can include Copilot for every licensed user, with AI usage metered from the first request against the enterprise budget and no monthly AI credits per seat. Users without an Enterprise license get Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month; self-serve comes later.
Copilot Fusion replaces picking a model: it routes and combines models per prompt at a chosen effort level. Each model it uses is billed at its standard rate, with a limited-time 30% discount on paid plans. Earlier auto, HydraFusion or HydraFusion Max selections move to the matching Fusion effort levels.
Copilot chat in VS Code, the Copilot app and Copilot CLI can now generate and edit images with GPT Image 2.5 Flare, saving them to the workspace. In public preview for Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise; billed separately from the chat model in image tokens that count toward the plan's AI credits. Admins can disable it via model policies.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra, aimed at everyday agentic coding and terminal work at a lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol, is GA for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise. It is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing; admins control it through the model policy, and new models are on by default.
The legacy GitHub app in Teams will be renamed GitHub (deprecated) and retired on November 16. Install the consolidated GitHub app, which adds Copilot, to keep using Copilot in Teams; it can turn an issue notification into a pull request via @github.
From October 22 to 26, 2026, GitHub rolled out enforcement of the global default policy on Copilot Business and Enterprise: eligible GA features and MCP-server settings left Unconfigured are set to the chosen default (Enabled, Disabled or Let organizations decide). Explicit choices are kept; review AI Controls → Copilot → Default policy for new features.
Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini and Grok 4.5 left most Copilot experiences on 2026-10-19. Suggested alternatives: Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and Grok 4.7; Enterprise admins may need to enable them in model policies.
GET and PATCH endpoints now read and update Copilot model policies for enterprises, enterprise teams, agent apps and organizations, so model availability can be managed as code. Enterprise policies can delegate model control to organizations or to teams and apps.
GitHub will deprecate Claude Opus 4.8*, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra across Copilot experiences on 2026-11-16; suggested alternatives are Claude Opus 5.5, or GPT-6.1 Sol / GPT-6 Luna. *Opus 4.8 exception for individual annual-plan subscribers — see the official post.
Agentic autofix remediates code-scanning alerts by exploring relevant files and proposing a fix, now generally available (per the GitHub Changelog Copilot feed).
Google's Gemini 4 Argon, designed for complex coding, agentic and reasoning tasks, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot.
GitHub Copilot has ended support for JetBrains IDE 2025.1; the plugin now needs JetBrains IDE 2025.2 or later. The same update lets enterprise admins set the default agent model for new conversations through managed settings.
Organization owners can bill Copilot code reviews from licensed members to the organization that owns the repository (needs AI Credits paid usage enabled, optional budget) instead of the member's own entitlement, where an exhausted quota makes the review fail. Owners and repo admins can also stop externally licensed users from requesting reviews.