What's new in Copilot

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1. New featureNovember 11, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   GitHub Apps Can Now Manage Enterprise Copilot Seats

   GitHub enterprise apps can now manage Copilot seats across an entire enterprise. A Copilot seat is a slot that lets a user access Copilot. The feature lets admins decide which users and enterprise teams receive seats.

   • Enterprise GitHub Apps can now call the Copilot seat management API.
   • The API (a way for programs to exchange data) uses a new permission called Enterprise Copilot license management.
   • Seats can be assigned to individual users and to enterprise teams.

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2. New featureNovember 11, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   C++ Language Server Now Auto-Configures MSBuild Builds

   Microsoft's C++ language server for GitHub Copilot CLI now includes a compile commands extractor for MSBuild and runs it automatically. Agents no longer need a separate setup step to analyze your project accurately.

   • The extractor ships with the language server, so it is always available.
   • Copilot runs the extractor automatically when a project opens and the language server starts.
   • Generating the compilation database for MSBuild projects is now consistent, which lowers setup token usage.

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3. New featureNovember 7, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   GitHub Copilot Code Review Adds API Management and Simpler Review Summaries

   GitHub Copilot's code review settings can now be managed through REST and GraphQL APIs, which are programming interfaces, from organization-wide policies down to individual repositories. The review summary screen has also been made more concise, and errors related to billing, automatic reviews, and stability have been fixed. The feature is available on the Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.

   • Through the API, you can see which reviewer left each review and the review intensity used.
   • Depending on administrator role, you can change whether code review is enabled and its settings at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.
   • The review summary puts key issues at the top and groups files that were not reviewed into one section.
   • A review that fails temporarily is automatically retried once.

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4. New featureNovember 7, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   GitHub Copilot Impact Dashboard Adds Chat and VS Code Agent Usage Tracking

   GitHub Copilot's impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code agent window in its agent adoption chart. Users can now see at a glance how much each of Copilot's nine features is used. The former 'manual users' group has been renamed 'chat-focused users.'

   • Copilot Chat and the VS Code agent window have been added to the agent adoption chart, bringing the total number of features to nine.
   • The name 'manual users' has been changed to 'chat-focused users.' It refers to users who did not use any eligible feature for more than two days in 28 days.
   • Chat and the agent window are counted only as feature usage and are not included in the adoption stage calculation.
   • This change applies only to the 28-day usage reports for enterprises and organizations, and reports from before the change show only the original seven features.

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5. New featureNovember 7, 2026Official · GitHub Blog - AI & ML

   Beyond Code Generation: A Developer's Guide to Working with AI Agents

   GitHub says more than 1.2 billion commits were pushed in one week in October, up over 400% from a year earlier. Writing more code does not necessarily speed up the whole job, and this guide explains how to use AI agents (AI that handles several steps of a task on its own) in planning, development, verification, and operation.

   • Using AI makes writing code faster, but the review time can become longer.
   • With Copilot, you can gather scattered information, compare design options, and create an execution plan.
   • Copilot can handle simple tasks, so developers can focus on difficult decisions.
   • You can continue the same Copilot work on a different device.

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6. New featureNovember 7, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   GitHub Copilot Expands to JetBrains Air and Xcode in Weekly Release Update

   GitHub Copilot can now be used in the coding assistants of JetBrains Air and Xcode. Several features for the Copilot app, CLI, and VS Code were also released. Here is a summary of the changes announced this week.

   • In the Copilot app, you can set Copilot to automatically merge a pull request (a code change request) once it is ready.
   • When a conversation gets long and reaches its limit, you can compress it or check what is taking up space.
   • Copilot can be used in Xcode's built-in coding assistant, available in public preview starting with Xcode 27.3 beta.
   • In VS Code, scheduled tasks can be set using cron expressions (a format that specifies when something should run at fixed times).

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7. New featureNovember 6, 2026Official · GitHub Changelog

   GitHub Adds Copilot Usage Metrics API Flags for Missing Telemetry and Outdated Versions

   GitHub has added new items to its Copilot usage metrics API. Administrators can now see users whose editors are not sending usage data, and users running editors or extensions below the minimum supported version. This lets admins check missing data themselves.

   • For each user, you can see whether client telemetry (usage records sent by the editor) has arrived.
   • It shows item by item whether the editor and Copilot extension a user runs meet the minimum supported version.
   • It counts, per day, the number of users with no telemetry and the number of users on outdated versions.
   • The two counts can overlap, so they should not be added together, and unique user totals should not be calculated by combining daily figures.

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8. New featureSeptember 29, 2026Official · Microsoft On the Issues/blog (AI tag)

   Microsoft Unveils Tools to Connect Company-Specific Data to AI Across Its Platforms

   Microsoft has introduced new features that help AI use a company's own data and business context. At an event in Barcelona, it announced related capabilities for Fabric and Azure databases. The main idea is to not tie AI to a single model, and instead let it answer based on company data.

   • Fabric IQ, a feature that connects company data context, is now generally available in Microsoft Copilot chat and Cowork.
   • Copilot can answer questions such as sales forecasts by drawing on the same data models behind a company's reports.
   • Power BI (a data visualization tool) customers can use this feature while keeping their existing access permissions and security settings.
   • Microsoft also introduced IQ sharing, which lets companies share data with partners or other companies while keeping control over it.

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9. New featureSeptember 25, 2026Official · Microsoft On the Issues/blog (AI tag)

   Microsoft Unveils New Copilot With Home, Code, and Autopilot Features

   Microsoft has redesigned its Copilot app around three new features: Home, where chat and delegated tasks come together; Code, which lets anyone build simple solutions; and Autopilot, which keeps working even when the user is away. Home and Code will open first to the Frontier program within weeks, and Autopilot will expand to a private preview later this month.

   • In Home, you can use both chat for quick questions and Cowork for tasks you hand off until they are finished.
   • With Office in Copilot, you can create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly inside Copilot.
   • Code lets non-developers create small custom tools. It uses the same technology as GitHub Copilot.
   • A feature for managing AI usage costs was also released.

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