Free Tier Support for GitHub Copilot Now Available on JetBrains IDEs
We’re excited to introduce the Free Tier for GitHub Copilot, now available for JetBrains IDEs! Starting today, you can enable GitHub Copilot in your JetBrains IDE with just a GitHub account—no trials or subscriptions required.
What’s included in the Free Tier?
The Free Tier provides everything you need to get started with GitHub Copilot:
* 2000 code completions/month
* 50 chat requests/month
* 64k context window for a seamless development experience
If you reach the limits, you can explore additional tiers to continue using GitHub Copilot’s powerful features.
Why it matters
GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs empowers you to write code faster, focus on creative problem-solving, and enhance productivity—all with an AI assistant right in your IDE. With the Free Tier, more developers than ever can access these tools and start improving their workflows today.
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We’d love for you to try the GitHub Copilot Plugin for JetBrains IDEs and share your thoughts. Your feedback plays a crucial role in helping us improve the product.
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On January 20th, 2025, Dependabot will end support for npm version 6, which has reached its end-of-life. If you continue to use npm version 6, there’s a risk that Dependabot will not create pull requests to update dependencies. In that case, we recommend updating to a supported release of npm. As of December 2024, the newest supported release of npm is version 11. View NPM’s official documentation for more information about supported releases.
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The Windows 2025 server image for GitHub Actions hosted runners is now available in public preview. To start using this image in your Actions workflows, update your workflow file to include runs-on: windows-2025.
Please note that the Windows 2025 image has a different list of installed tools and tool versions. See the full list of changed software including differences in the announcement.
If you spot any issues with your workflows when using Windows Server 2025, or if you have feedback on the software installed on the image, please let us know by creating an issue in the runner-images repository. While the runner image is in preview, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours.
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The GitHub Models playground now shows your real-time token usage, including both input and output counts, as well as latency information in its responses. The analytics are accessible via the top bar, helping you more efficiently optimize prompts, evaluate model costs, and monitor response times.
Additionally, clicking on the information in the top bar now opens a modal with more details about the token and latency metrics:
GitHub Models makes it easy for every developer on GitHub to build AI features and products, with access to top AI models via a playground, API, and more.
CodeQL build-mode: none scans can now access private dependencies stored in private registries (e.g. Artifactory) for Java and C# projects. This makes your scans more comprehensive, ensuring you receive all important alerts regardless of where your dependencies are stored.
Previously, build-mode: none code scans with the default setup were unable to fetch code for dependent packages stored in private registries, which could result in incomplete analysis. Now, organization administrators can configure access credentials for private registries at the organization level. This enhancement allows CodeQL scans in child repositories to retrieve all necessary dependencies, enabling comprehensive code analysis when using the code scanning default setup.
This feature is currently in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers.
With the new GitHub Copilot Free plan, anyone can experiment with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and on GitHub! By simply signing in with your personal GitHub account, you will have access to 2000 Code Completions and 50 chat messages per month!
Here are a few things to try out today:
Accelerate your development with code completion
Execute edits across multiple files with Copilot Edits
Choose the model that works best for you, starting with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Access the Copilot Extensions to customize your development experience
Elevate your coding skills with our redesigned Copilot Chat, now featuring a dedicated home on GitHub.
What’s new in Copilot Chat on GitHub:
Immersive chat experience at github.com/copilot: Copilot is now just one click away, offering a seamless and immersive chat directly on GitHub.
Smarter and faster responses: Whether you’re brainstorming, problem-solving, or just exploring ideas, Copilot’s answers are sharper, richer, and more naturally attuned to your needs.
Real-time interaction with your codebase: Ask questions and get immediate answers about your codebase, helping you understand how things work faster than ever.
Generate and refine code effortlessly: Use conversational prompts to create and refine code snippets or entire files. Iterate seamlessly until you achieve the desired outcome.
Navigate GitHub with natural language: Summarize issues and pull requests, retrieve specific information, and explore repositories without navigating through the UI.
Leverage a variety of models: Choose from different AI models to get the best results based on your specific use case.
Find and return to previous chats: Easily revisit past conversations, keep track of important insights, code iterations and decision-making processes by accessing your entire conversation history whenever you need it.
Expanded capabilities across your entire codebase
As part of this update, we’ve removed limits on how many repositories you can index. Now, you can enjoy the full capabilities of Copilot Chat across your entire codebase, whether you’re working on multiple projects or a large monolith.
Your feedback helps us continue to improve. Let us know what you think using the in-product feedback option or pop it into the GitHub Community at any time.
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You can now more easily filter secret scanning alerts, with new filter options and advanced filtering.
Enterprise and organization level list views now include a new menu with commonly used and suggested filter options, like bypassed secrets, publicly leaked secrets, and those with enterprise duplicates. The repository level list view now supports a new “advanced filtering” menu.
The experimental toggle has been removed from the alert list header UI, but you can still access it from the sidebar navigation menu and with the results:experimental filter.
Public leak and multi-repository indicators are fully supported across list views, including alert list views and the REST API. In the UI, in addition to menu options, you can access these filters with is:multi-repository and is:publicly-leaked. These indicators are also included in webhook and audit log event payloads for secret scanning alerts.
What are public leak and multi-repo labels?
To help you triage and remediate secret leaks more effectively, GitHub secret scanning now indicates if a secret detected in your repository has also leaked publicly with a public leak label on the alert. The alert also indicates if the secret was exposed in other repositories across your organization or enterprise with a multi-repository label.
These labels provide additional understanding into the distribution of an exposed secret, while also making it easier to assess an alert’s risk and urgency. For example, a secret which has a known associated exposure in a public location has a higher likelihood of exploitation. Detection of public leaks is only currently supported for provider-based patterns.
The multi-repository label makes it easier to de-duplicate alerts and is supported for all secret types, including custom patterns. You can only view and navigate to other enterprise repositories with duplicate alerts if you have appropriate permissions to view them.
Both indicators currently apply only for newly created alerts.
You can now use the new “Improve Prompt” button next to your system prompt in the Models Playground.
A system prompt is a predefined instruction or guideline that sets the behavior and tone for an AI model, helping it respond in a specific way to user inputs. This AI-powered tool will refine and optimize your prompt to help you get the best possible results from your chosen model.
GitHub Models makes it easy for every developer on GitHub to build AI features and products. Easily try, compare, and implement models in your code for free via the playground or API.
You can now enable code scanning in your GitHub Actions workflow files. By opting-in to this feature, you can enhance the security of repositories using GitHub Actions.
Actions analysis support includes a set of CodeQL queries developed by the GitHub Security Lab to capture common misconfigurations of workflow files that can lead to security vulnerabilities. You can now easily run these queries as part of Code Scanning’s default or advanced setup and use Copilot Autofix to get remediation suggestions on your findings.
You can opt-in to the public preview by selecting the “GitHub Actions” language via code scanning default setup, or by adding the actions language to your existing advanced setup. New repositories onboarding to default setup after today will start analyzing Actions workflows right away. Existing repositories will not be automatically opted-in as part of the public preview.
New REST API endpoints for code scanning allow you to request the generation of Copilot Autofix for code scanning alerts. These endpoints also provide the Autofix generation status, along with metadata and AI-generated descriptions for the fixes, and enable you to apply Autofix to a branch. This functionality can be particularly useful for addressing security vulnerabilities programmatically and for tracking the status of alerts with Copilot Autofixes in your system.
To generate Copilot Autofix, call the POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{number}/autofix endpoint.
Additionally, you can retrieve the Autofix and commit it by using the GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{number}/autofix endpoint followed by POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/alerts/{number}/autofix/commits.
Announcement banner fields in GraphQL for enterprises and organizations are being replaced with a new announcementBanner object to simplify their access and better follow our standard styles. The new fields are available today, and the old fields will be removed on April 1, 2025.
The following fields are being removed from the enterprise and organization GraphQL objects:
The latest model from Mistral, Mistral Large 24.11, is now available in GitHub Models. This is an advanced Large Language Model (LLM) with state-of-the-art reasoning, knowledge and coding capabilities.
GitHub Models is a catalog and playground of AI models to help you build AI features and products.
Start exploring this model today in the playground or via the API. Compare it to other Mistral models using the side-by-side feature in GitHub Models, and see the improvement for yourself!
Meta has released a new model, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, now available in GitHub Models. It provides similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B, but at a significantely lower cost, making it a more accessible option for developers.
GitHub Models is a catalog and playground of AI models to help you build AI features and products.
Start exploring Llama 3.3 70B Instruct today in the playground or via the API. Compare it to the old model using the side-by-side feature in GitHub Models, and see the improvement for yourself!
Following our “Evolving GitHub Issues” announcement we’ve continued to improve the experience based on your feedback, including closing an issue as a duplicate, a REST API for sub-issues, and expanding the limits for both sub-issues and issue types.
These new features are all available in public preview for you to try. To gain access for your organization, please sign up here.
🧹 Close an issue as a duplicate
You can now close an issue as a duplicate of another issue, making it easier to manage your issues and provide more clarity on why they were closed.
When closing an issue, select Close as duplicate from the dropdown to search for and select the duplicate issue. You’ll then see an event in the timeline and note at the top making it clear why it was closed.
⚙ REST API support for sub-issues
You can now use the REST API to view, add, remove, and reprioritize sub-issues, making it easier to automate your use of sub-issues. Check out the documentation to learn more.
➕ Increased limits for sub-issues and issue types
You can now have up to 100 sub-issues per parent issue (up from 50), as well as up to 25 issue types in an organization (up from 10), making it easier to manage, classify, and break down work.
📱 Issue types on GitHub Mobile
You can now view, add, and update issue types on GitHub Mobile.
🔍 Improved filtering for sub-issues and issue types
You can use the has: and no: filters to search for sub-issues and issue types both from a project and the repository issues page, making it easier to find the exact set of issues you’re looking for and make updates.
Example filters include:
– no:type to find all issues that do not yet have a type
– no:parent-issue to find all issues without a parent issue
– has:sub-issue to find all issues that have sub-issues
✨ Additional improvements
On top of the many bug fixes we’ve shipped, we’ve also introduced the following improvements:
– If the sub-issue is from a different repository than the parent issue, you will now see the repository name in the sub-issues list.
– In GitHub markdown, pasting in a project link will now show the project name as well as more project details on hover.
– Projects insights charts now use Highcharts, which is an industry standard library for charts, improving our accessibility of projects insights.
– You can now use the UpdateProjectV2Field GraphQL API mutation to directly update all single select field options in one API.
You can now create and manage code security settings at the enterprise level. This change reduces the need for repetitive setup at the organization level.
Key updates:
– Apply configurations across all repositories in an enterprise, only to repos without existing configurations, or to newly created repos.
– Enforce settings across your enterprise, ensuring security policies are applied consistently.
– Enterprise configurations will also appear on the organization-level page, giving you the flexibility to manage centrally but deploy locally. This also enables you to roll out configurations, organization by organization.
In the latest Visual Studio Code release, you will find a suite of enhancements to GitHub Copilot, designed to make your coding and debugging experience in VS Code more productive and efficient. These features are now available for you to try out in the latest version of Visual Studio Code.
More relevant suggestions with extra options to add context
To give you suggestions and edits, Copilot collects information from your codebase. To give you even more specific and relevant responses, you can provide additional context to guide and focus Copilot. In this release, we’ve added more ways to add context for Copilot Chat and Copilot Edits.
You can now add symbols to the context to provide very detailed and specific context. Drag and drop a symbol from the Outline view or editor breadcrumb in the Chat view, or reference a symbol by typing #sym in the chat input field.
You can also add folders to the context to provide a broader context. Drag and drop a folder from the Explorer view into the Chat view to add all files in that folder to the context.
More efficient multi-file editing
With Copilot Edits (preview), you can get edit suggestions across multiple files in your project. We’ve made several enhancements to Copilot Edits to make the experience more efficient and easier to use.
Editor overlay controls: The overlay controls in the editor enable you to quickly navigate between suggested edits, review, and apply them. As Copilot Edits is generating edits, the overlay controls will show a progress indicator.
Move chat conversation to Copilot Edits: You might use Copilot Chat to explore ideas for making code changes. Instead of applying individual code blocks from chat, you can now move the chat session to Copilot Edits to apply all code suggestions from the session.
Working set: For large codebases, it can be hard to add the right files to the working set. VS Code can now suggest relevant files to add to the working set, so you get the most relevant edits across your project. And to make adding to the working even more efficient, drag files from the Explorer view or Search view to add them to the working set.
Restore edit sessions: Copilot Edits now saves and restores your edit session across VS Code restarts, so you can continue where you left off.
Kickstart debugging with copilot-debug
Setting up a debugging environment can be challenging, especially when you’re working with a new codebase or project. With the new copilot-debug terminal command, you can ask Copilot to generate a launch configuration for you based on your project’s setup. And if your project needs a compilation step before debugging, Copilot can generate a task for that too.
Copilot can help you generate commit messages based on the changes you’ve made. In this release, we added support for custom instructions when generating a commit message. For example, if your commit messages need to follow a specific format, you can describe this in the custom instructions.
Use the github.copilot.chat.commitMessageGeneration.instructions setting to either specify the custom instructions directly, or to specify a file from your workspace that contains the custom instructions. These instructions are appended to the prompt that is used to generate the commit message. Get more information on how to use custom instructions.
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The refreshed pull request commits page, which was previously in public preview, is now generally available! This updated page improves performance, is more consistent with other pages across GitHub, and is accessible to more users.
Your feedback during the public preview helped us deliver a better experience, including better keyboard navigation. If you have additional feedback, please let us know in the GitHub Community.
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We will now post updates and status interruptions in real-time on GitHub Community. We understand that no product is perfect, and there will be times when unsuspected degradations or outages occur. To make information as open and accessible as possible, any incident that occurs and is on our GitHub status page will have a corresponding discussion post on GitHub Community.
This will give you a centralized thread in Community Discussions for you to share your experiences and find up to date information as it impacts your work.
What can you expect?
If an incident occurs and is on our GitHub status page, a discussion will post declaring the incident in the community
The ability to subscribe to an open incident discussion for real-time updates
Subsequent updates to post on the incident’s discussion thread
When an incident is resolved, you will see a marked answer and an image indicating the incident is resolved
If available, a link to the public incident summary
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You can now fork a public repository to your personal account directly from GitHub Mobile! This new feature allows you to easily create your own copy of a public repository on the go, making it simpler to contribute to open source projects, experiment with new ideas, or collaborate with others. It’s easier than ever to contribute to your favorite projects anytime, anywhere.
