winget install --id GitHub.CopilotAppAbout GitHub Copilot
The GitHub Copilot app is a desktop application purpose-built for agent-driven development. It gives you a single place to direct AI agents across parallel workstreams, work with GitHub issues and pull requests, and manage the full development lifecycle—without context-switching between terminals, IDEs, and browser tabs. The app is built on GitHub Copilot CLI and integrates natively with GitHub, so your repositories, branches, and CI pipelines work out of the box. It's designed for workflows where you want to run m...
What's new in 1.1.6
What's new in v1.1.6 Highlights - Added controls to delete outdated local review comments and conversations from the Changes view without affecting GitHub review data. - Pull request review comments now show an Outdated badge when their original code has changed, with a simplified file path label. - Improved the Manage marketplaces dialog with clearer source rows, in-dialog error and progress feedback, and better focus handling. - Sidebar and right-side panels now open and close instantly, without animation, keeping your conversation scroll position stable. - Bulk-archiving sessions now prioritizes closed and merged pull request sessions first before archiving everything in a section. Added - Added controls to delete outdated local review comments and conversations from the Changes view without affecting GitHub review data. - Show an Outdated badge on pull request review comments whose original code has since changed, and simplify the location label to just the file path. Changed - Archiving closed or merged pull request sessions from the sidebar now happens immediately, without a confirmation dialog. - Bulk-archiving sessions grouped by date or status now prioritizes archiving closed and merged pull request sessions first, only falling back to archiving all sessions in a section when there is nothing completed to clean up. - Improved the Manage marketplaces dialog with clearer source rows, in-dialog error and progress feedback, and better focus handling when removing marketplaces or their plugins. - Issue and pull request timeline events now show clearer per-event icons, i...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1.6 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.6 Highlights - Added controls to delete outdated local review comments and conversations from the Changes view without affecting GitHub review data. - Pull request review comments now show an Outdated... |
| 1.1.5 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.5 Highlights - Added a Resume button to the sidebar hover preview so you can resume interrupted or errored sessions without opening them. - Closing the main window now keeps the app running in the back... |
| 1.1.4 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.4 Highlights - Navigate between related pull requests in a stack with a new stack menu, plus a stack summary in the merge drawer. - Copilot can now create GitHub issues in a different repository than t... |
| 1.1.3 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.3 Highlights - You can now request Copilot code reviews and re-request reviews from reviewers who have already responded. - Pull requests that are part of a stack now show stack status and can be merge... |
| 1.1.2 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.2 Highlights - GitHub Copilot now appears automatically as a read-only model provider in Model Providers settings when you have an active Copilot seat. - Cloud automation triggers with a query field no... |
| 1.1.1 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.1 Highlights - Added a toggle in the Files tab to show or hide hidden files (like .env) normally excluded by .gitignore. - Large sessions now open much faster, with older messages loading in the backgr... |
| 1.1.0 | Unknown | What's new in v1.1.0 Highlights - Session grid, side chats in the review panel, and automatic session renaming to the pull request title are now available to all users. - Added has: and no: search qualifiers to the My Wo... |
| 1.0.26 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.26 Highlights - New "New session" and "Open session" actions let you hand off an issue or pull request link to a new or existing session without leaving your current one. - Added a project MCP settings... |
| 1.0.25 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.25 Highlights - Discounted model promotions are now highlighted on the Home screen and in the model picker. - Web search tool calls now show the search query inline in the conversation. - The Files tab... |
| 1.0.24 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.24 Highlights - Added an "Install from URL…" button in the Extensions Canvas tab to install a canvas extension from a gist or GitHub folder URL without an active session. - You can now enable or disabl... |
| 1.0.23 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.23 Highlights - Added a Files tab to the right panel so you can browse and open files without leaving the diff or terminal. - Added a low disk space warning in the sidebar with a breakdown of Copilot s... |
| 1.0.22 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.22 Highlights - Add to panel now shows a "Relevant from session" group so you can quickly open issues and pull requests recently mentioned in the conversation. - The full-screen pull request Changes vi... |
| 1.0.21 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.21 Highlights - Clarified that the "GitHub Enterprise" sign-in option is for GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency (*.ghe.com). - Fixed a workspace's pull request status incorrectly showing as me... |
| 1.0.20 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.20 Highlights - Added a /security-review slash command to start a security review of the current diffs. - In local sessions, you can now edit a previous message to rewind the conversation and resend it... |
| 1.0.19 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.19 Highlights - Added a rich text editor for the plan in the workspace Plan tab while Copilot waits for approval. - Deep links that create a new session can now nest it under an existing session, so it... |
| 1.0.18 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.18 Highlights - Added a "Default agent" setting so new sessions automatically start with your chosen custom agent. - Added a context-window usage graph to Session Insights, showing usage over time with... |
| 1.0.17 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.17 Highlights - Added an optional sparse-checkout setting so new worktrees for very large repositories can include or exclude selected top-level directories. - Added an Insights tab to the session pane... |
| 1.0.16 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.16 Highlights - Selecting multiple projects when starting a new chat now starts a single orchestration chat across those repositories, with the sidebar grouping the spawned sessions together. - Right-c... |
| 1.0.15 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.15 Fixed - Fixed the default branch reverting to the repository's default branch every time a project was reopened after being manually changed in Settings. |
| 1.0.14 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.14 Highlights - Added an /init slash command to generate or improve a repository's Copilot instructions file. - You can now type & in the composer to mention and reference another session by name. - Th... |