GitHub introduced a private beta version of GitHub Copilot with an enhanced filter. This filter identifies and presents contextual code suggestions related to public code on GitHub. With the filter activated, GitHub Copilot assesses code suggestions alongside approximately 150 characters of neighboring code. It then cross-references these suggestions with an index of all public code … continue reading
A few months ago GitHub revealed GitHub Copilot X, which is a major upgrade to Copilot that adds chat and voice capabilities, as well as brings the tool to other areas of development, like the command line, pull requests, and docs. Now the company has officially launched a beta for the new chat functionality for … continue reading
GitHub’s merge queue aims to end congestion on a team’s most active branches. According to the company, by enabling merge queue, the need to hurry and merge pull requests before others do is no longer a concern. This feature is now generally available and is accessible to any team that is part of a managed … continue reading
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.9 is now available with more features that can help organizations collaborate better, gain better observability, and have faster workflows. Among its highlights are a new time-based view in GitHub Projects, as well as the ability to standardize issues with tools such as issue forms. GitHub Projects has been enhanced with … continue reading
GitHub released its new code search and code view to enable developers to quickly search, navigate and understand their code, and put critical information into context. The new code search engine has been remodeled to be two times faster than the old one and has more capabilities such as supporting substring queries, regular expressions, and … continue reading
GitHub announced a major upgrade to Copilot, its AI-assisted development tool. Now in public preview, GitHub Copilot X utilizes the new GPT-4 model, adds chat and voice capabilities, and brings Copilot to the command line, pull requests, and docs. “With AI available at every step, we can fundamentally redefine developer productivity. We are reducing boilerplate … continue reading
Among the many improvements in the new version, Git 2.40’s git jump tool which wraps other Git commands like git grep, and feeds their results into Vim’s quickfix list now contains support for Emacs in addition to Vim. ‘git jump’ now works with ‘diff’ in which the quickfix list is populated with the beginning of … continue reading
GitHub announced several new products designed to accelerate the company’s push into major enterprises. GitHub Copilot will soon bring its AI-pair programmer to businesses with added admin controls and the ability to manage licenses. Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and functions in real time right in the editor. “Hey GitHub” also makes Copilot … continue reading
The deployment automation company Octopus Deploy today announced the general availability of GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v2. This update is intended to support the company’s deployment automation for GitHub Action workflows. With this users gain the ability to incorporate build information into deployment pipelines with GitHub’s introduction of a new push-build-information-action. This lets users … continue reading
Today, GitHub announced that math expressions can now be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using “$$” as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the “$” delimiter for inline math expressions. According to GitHub, mathematical expressions have become essential to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Support for displaying math … continue reading
GitHub announced new improvements that streamline the Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository and mono-repo projects. GitHub initially released Codespaces to address cloud-native applications that are housed in a single repository: the most common type of project on GitHub. For those that are developing a feature that spans many different types of services, GitHub added … continue reading
GitHub announced a new feature for Dependabot alerts that helps developers see how vulnerabilities affect their code. Dependabot alerts use GitHub’s precise code navigation engine to determine if a repository directly calls a vulnerable function. The new feature marks a shift in how GitHub curates information on vulnerable packages from the Advisory Database to curating … continue reading
