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GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals

GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals

Recently, we announced that GitHub Copilot Chat in IDEs is now generally available for both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, and is included in all GitHub Copilot plans alongside the original GitHub Copilot productivity boosting code completion capabilities. It is also available at no cost to verified teachers, students, and maintainers of popular open source projects. As of now, GitHub Copilot Chat is still in the private beta for JetBrains IDEs.

If you’ve been using Copilot Chat in public beta or have already provided access to your development team, no additional actions are required. There’s also no need to install any additional extensions; Copilot chat extension is bundled together with the Copilot extension.

Enterprise and organization administrators can grant their development teams access to Copilot Chat by enabling the Copilot Chat setting for their users.

Please check out our guide for getting started with Copilot chat.

Looking forward to hearing about how you’re putting it to use!

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Copilot Enterprise beta – January 10th update

The new year brings new features and improvements for the Copilot Enterprise! 🎆 These changes are focused on streamlined onboarding and ease of use.

As a reminder, Copilot Enterprise is currently in limited public beta. Enterprises can request access by signing up to the waitlist.

Semantic search can be enabled on any repository

Developers in an enterprise with access to Copilot Enterprise can now enable semantic search on a repository through the click of a button. Once a repository is indexed, Copilot has a much improved understanding of the code base in that repository and can answer questions via Copilot Chat in GitHub.com.

Create docsets to access your company’s critical knowledge

Organizations with documentation hosted in GitHub repos and written in Markdown (.md, .mdx) can now create “docsets” and enable developers in those organizations to access that critical knowledge via Copilot Chat in GitHub.com.

To get started, admins can create a docset, including the repositories that contain Markdown documentation.

Members of the corresponding organization can start to ask questions about the documentation by selecting the docset from Copilot’s “New conversation” UI in GitHub.com.

An organization can have multiple docsets – so, for example, an admin could create a docset for each team with the repositories that are relevant to them.

Introducing Copilot chat for pull request diffs

Developers are now be able to ask Copilot Chat questions about diffs on GitHub.com. To see this in action, simply navigate to a diff and use one of the following two entry points:

  1. Select some of the lines in the diff, and click on the icon on the right. You can click “Explain” to ask Copilot to explain those lines.
  2. You can also ask Copilot to chat about an entire file in the diff by clicking on the three dots at the top-right of the file in the diff. Click on “Ask Copilot about this diff” to start chatting about it.

Improved onboarding and discoverability

  • Enterprise admins have now access to improved onboarding as they enable Copilot Enterprise within their enterprise.
  • GitHub Copilot on GitHub.com can now be accessed via the search bar.
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Reduce job queue times with newly updated ‘min’ attribute in Action-Runner-Controller

The min attribute in Action-Runner-Controller is now updated to enhance system responsiveness and efficiency. Previously, the min attribute was focused on determining the minimum number of runners that the system could scale down to during periods of inactivity. This meant that when there were few to no jobs running, the system would maintain this minimum number of runners, which could be either active or idle.

The new behavior of the min attribute shifts focus to maintaining a minimum number of idle runners at all times. This means that even when there are many jobs in progress, the system will ensure that a certain number of runners are always idle and ready to immediately take on new jobs. This change allows for smoother handling of incoming jobs, reducing wait times and improving overall job processing efficiency.

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