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 1.0.15
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.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 1.0.13 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.13 Highlights - Chats can now be archived instead of only deleted, hiding them from the sidebar without losing history and letting you restore them later. - A full-screen Present mode for canvas, diff,... |
| 1.0.12 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.12 Highlights - Added an agent picker to the chat composer toolbar so you can select a custom agent before or during a session, including sessions opened from issues and pull requests. - HTML files can... |
| 1.0.11 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.11 Highlights - Local automations now support custom CRON expressions, letting you schedule workflows at any cadence using a segmented expression editor with inline validation and a human-readable prev... |
| 1.0.10 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.10 Highlights - Orchestrator sessions can now approve or redirect a child session's plan while it's paused in plan mode, instead of waiting for a human. - "Share extension as gist" now appears in the c... |
| 1.0.9 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.9 Highlights - Quick chats now support tool-approval commands (/yolo, /allow-all-tools, /reset-allowed-tools) and session forking, bringing them to feature parity with code sessions. - The Settings → U... |
| 1.0.8 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.8 Highlights - Sessions now automatically remember your last model, reasoning effort, and long-context state — no more configuring a default model in settings. - Screen-reader users can navigate the ch... |
| 1.0.7 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.7 Highlights - Added a "Quick chat" option to the home screen project picker, letting you start a chat session directly without selecting a repository. - Automation runs now show token, context, and AI... |
| 1.0.6 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.6 Highlights - Type @ in any comment or description composer to get autocomplete suggestions for mentionable users and org teams in the current repository. - Manage sessions now supports pill-style fil... |
| 1.0.5 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.5 Added - Model Providers configuration — connect your own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, and others — is now available to all users in Settings. Fixed - Fixed a sidebar status flicker where m... |
| 1.0.4 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.4 Highlights - Fixed a bug where backslashes (e.g. in Windows paths, LaTeX, or regex) were doubled on every save in the markdown editor, progressively corrupting files. - Fixed multi-second freezes whe... |
| 1.0.3 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.3 Highlights - Fixed a critical bug where an in-app update could silently wipe all workspaces and session history — the app now automatically recovers from a backup if the database is found empty or co... |
| 1.0.2 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.2 Highlights - Session forking is now available to all users: fork a session from a completed agent response to explore an alternative approach, then merge the forked work back to the parent session. -... |
| 1.0.1 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.1 Highlights - Added configurable branch prefix settings — set an app-wide default and a per-project override for the prefix used when generating worktree branches. - External links can now open the ap... |
| 1.0.0 | Unknown | What's new in v1.0.0 Highlights - The Recent sessions view now supports bulk actions — select multiple sessions and archive or delete them at once, with new sortable Branch and Created columns. - The composer now shows a... |
| 0.2.34 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.34 Highlights - Added a Plugins tab in Settings to install, manage, and browse Copilot plugins from marketplaces, with enable/disable toggles, update, and uninstall. - Pull request and issue detail vie... |
| 0.2.33 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.33 Highlights - Added a /orchestrate composer command for coordinating multi-session and multi-repo work, letting the agent delegate tasks across child sessions. - Added /context and /usage slash comma... |
| 0.2.32 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.32 Added - Export markdown content as a secret GitHub Gist from the workspace plan canvas, markdown file editor, and assistant reply actions. - Free Copilot plan users now see an upgrade prompt in Acco... |
| 0.2.31 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.31 Added - A new Background agents pill above the composer lists active background tasks; clicking a task opens its output in a side panel. In-chat subagent rows now also open task output in a side pan... |