Releasesby GlyphEnterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrators can now apply consistent controls for everyone on your enterprise’s Copilot plan.
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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .
Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)
The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions
Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.
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The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to plan changes, investigate problems, and hand off coding tasks from the conversations where your team coordinates work.
Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a GitHub Copilot cloud agent session. Anyone in the conversation can ask questions, add context, and help plan or steer the work.
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed strong results across terminal-based coding tasks in Visual Studio Code and Copilot CLI.
GitHub Copilot weekly releases , August 10
From new models and portable plugins to smoother agent workflows, this week’s updates make GitHub Copilot more flexible across editors, the command line, and the Copilot app. GitHub Copilot, general Kimi K3 is rolling out to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. From our early testing, the model has made improvements in web and app development and agentic coding workflows over it’s previous version.
Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
You can now build a plugin once and use it across all compatible agent clients. We published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6 with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. Google also joined as a core maintainer on the same day.
GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
GitHub Copilot is more useful when it works with the tools, knowledge, and workflows your team already relies on. The new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app brings MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases together in one place. Explore featured customizations, browse by type, and find new ways to tailor Copilot to how you and your team work.
Copilot harness generally available in Copilot for JetBrains
This update brings Copilot harness to generally availability. You also get more stable account, model, and MCP experiences. What’s new Copilot harness generally available Copilot harness is now generally available, providing faster feature delivery and better code quality.