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

At a glance

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.

Key points

1. 1

   In the Copilot app, you can set Copilot to automatically merge a pull request (a code change request) once it is ready.

2. 2

   When a conversation gets long and reaches its limit, you can compress it or check what is taking up space.

3. 3

   Copilot can be used in Xcode's built-in coding assistant, available in public preview starting with Xcode 27.3 beta.

4. 4

   In VS Code, scheduled tasks can be set using cron expressions (a format that specifies when something should run at fixed times).

Why it matters

Developers can now use Copilot directly in several of their tools, getting AI help without changing their workflow.