Copilot Monthly Digest 🚀 Boost Your Productivity!

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To enhance your coding experience, AI tools should excel at saving you time with repetitive, administrative tasks while providing accurate solutions. This month, we’re spotlighting multiple updates designed to increase efficiency and boost developer creativity.

Developers spend only 25% of their workday coding; the rest is used for planning, tracking issues, and understanding code. GitHub Copilot can reduce the time needed to gain context before solving problems. Available in the IDE and on GitHub.com, Copilot helps you work your way, with continuous updates to enhance your experience

Take a look below to see the latest updates to GitHub Copilot, now available as a part of Copilot Enterprise.

✨ GitHub Copilot Chat—Smarter Than Ever!

If searching disrupts your flow, GitHub Copilot Chat helps you get up to speed. With GitHub Copilot Enterprise, Copilot can search organization-specific and public repositories, the web with Bing, and knowledge bases using natural language. Recent updates enable Copilot Chat to answer questions about issues, commits, releases, pull requests, and files on any branch, speeding up your workflow.

Key Features:

• Knowledge Base Queries: Type @github #kb to ask questions about your knowledge bases within VS Code (coming soon to Visual Studio).
• Repository Search: Use @github to search across any GitHub repository from VS Code and Visual Studio.
• Bing Web Search: Use #web with @github to search the web directly from the IDE.

Coming Soon:

Next, we'll enhance Copilot with additional context about GitHub primitives like pull requests, commits, and discussions.

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🔥 Chat Better with GitHub Copilot Chat

We’ve made some small-but-meaningful changes to how you can interact with Copilot Chat on GitHub.com to make it easier, more efficient, and more natural. Users can now type out messages while the system generates responses, navigate through message history, and stop chat generation altogether—sometimes the small changes are the big wins.

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🌟 Copilot Chat & Pull Request Summaries Powered by GPT-4o

Copilot Chat and pull request summary generation now use GPT-4o, bringing the performance of OpenAI’s latest flagship model to all developers.

Copilot Chat is available in Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, GitHub Mobile apps, and GitHub.com.

Use GPT-4o in Your IDE:

• VS Code: GitHub Copilot Chat 0.17+
• Visual Studio: 17.8+
• JetBrains IDEs: GitHub Copilot 1.5.14+

Benefits of GPT-4o:

1. Faster response times – up to 55% faster TTFT (time to first byte)
2. More accurate and reliable Copilot Chat responses – our testing showed a 60% increase in user satisfaction.

Commitment to Quality:

The upgrade process focused on our unwavering commitment to quality, safety, and security.

1. Offline and Online Evaluation: Rigorous testing to ensure tangible benefits to users.
2. Red Teaming: Extensive testing to meet high safety and reliability standards.

We can’t wait to see what you create with the new GPT-4o-powered Copilot!

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🔒 Copilot Network Requests Routed by Subscription

Copilot's network requests are now tailored to your subscription! Copilot Individual, Business, and Enterprise users will have their requests routed through dedicated endpoints, ensuring seamless access tailored to their subscription level.

This means Copilot Business and Enterprise users can ensure secure access via network firewalls, guaranteeing that data is handled per their agreements. Additionally, organizations can allow or block specific subscription access as needed.

Mark Your Calendars 📅: On October 31, 2024, subscription enforcement on new endpoints begins. Only Business and Enterprise users will be able to connect to their respective endpoints.

Learn more about subscription-based network routing here.

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❓ Curious about all the Copilot releases from July? Explore them here!

We're continually enhancing Copilot with new features tailored to developers' evolving needs. Don't miss out—discover Copilot’s current capabilities and use cases, and subscribe to our feature updates to stay updated with the latest monthly releases.

Stay tuned for next month's electrifying AI updates that will supercharge your Copilot experience! ⚡