We've turned 1️⃣ on Discussions! 🥳 - Copilot Community Check-in

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Earlier this year, we shared some exciting news about GitHub Copilot X, introducing various technical previews that harnessed the potential of generative AI and GPT-4 to enhance the developer experience on GitHub.

Last week we decided to take the next BIG step by bringing GitHub Copilot X to enterprise companies and organizations - announcing 📢 the limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat, specially tailored for all business users on Visual Studio and VS Code. Some of the key features include:

• Personalized assistance
• Real-time guidance
• Fixing security issues
• Code analysis
• Simple troubleshooting

🆕 Read more about GitHub Copilot Chat and using it effectively on GitHub Docs

⚡Enable GitHub Copilot Chat for your Organization 🚀

💌 GitHub Community Turns 1️⃣ on Discussions! 🥳

Happy 1️⃣st Birthday to the GitHub Community on Discussions! 🎉 Yesterday marked a year since we migrated to a unified in-product space for all user interactions. Let's celebrate 🎈 by recognizing the outstanding contributions of our community members from the past month!

• A BIG round of applause 👏 for @academicgit for sharing their insights about an intended behavior of Copilot opening separate instances of JetBrains IDE.
• Let’s look at this self-solve ✔️ - Much deserving sparkles ✨ for @darthgabriel on figuring the solution for a Copilot login issue. Thanks for sharing the solution with us. What an incredible self-solve! 💯
• Great job by @pog5 for helping us and our student developers ❤️ get clarity around the Copilot access as a verified student.

Wanna know what’s new in Copilot ❓

We have shared detailed information on the recent ships 🚢 , improvements, and product updates as digests in these changelog posts on the GitHub Blogs:

• July 14 Copilot Update

  • Automate GitHub Copilot access for your organization with User Management API (beta)
  • Visual Studio extension improvements
  • Analyze method with GitHub Copilot in CPU usage tool

• June Copilot Update

  • GitHub Copilot Chat (Visual Studio Code) - Stable release Visual Studio Code v1.79
  • Copilot with your debugger (Visual Studio)
  • Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions
  • Code completion improvements

Good Reads 📚

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If you’re a Copilot for Business user, have you explored GitHub Copilot Chat yet? Share the feature you love the most and your valuable feedback in the comments below. Happy Co-Piloting ✈️

That's all for now. See y'all soon 🚀