Copilot Edits for JetBrains IDEs is generally available

Screenshot of GitHub Copilot Edits interface in JetBrains IDEs.

Copilot Edits is now generally available in JetBrains IDEs. This powerful feature lets you refactor, optimize, and iterate on your code faster—across one or multiple files—all from within Copilot Chat.

✨ What’s new

Use Copilot Edits to smoothly make changes in one or multiple files directly from Copilot Chat. To use Copilot Edits, click the Copilot Chat icon in the JetBrains IDE and start a new Edit session.

⚡️ Benefits for developers

  • Enhanced clarity: See a summary of the affected files and proposed changes.
  • Ability to preview changes: View code diffs directly in your editor and decide whether to accept or discard these changes individually or collectively.
  • Increased productivity: Save time and effort with the help of Copilot Edits, enabling you to focus on more complex tasks.

🛠 Get involved

We encourage you to try out the latest version of the GitHub Copilot plugin and share your feedback. Your input is invaluable in helping us refine and improve the product.

💬 Share your feedback

Encounter a bug or have a feature request? Submit an issue here, we’d love to hear from you!

User prompt improvement is now in public preview within the GitHub Models playground

You can now use the user prompt improvement feature in the GitHub Models playground. This new feature helps transform vague or broad prompts into clearer, more specific, and optimized ones for better model outputs. With just a few clicks, you can refine prompts to improve clarity, add focus, or adjust tone and style to match your needs. By providing specific suggestions—like requesting a particular format or style—you can save time and achieve high-quality, actionable results.

Try it out today and unlock more potential in your AI experimentation!

To learn more about GitHub Models, check out the docs. You can also join our community discussions.

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CodeQL improves JavaScript and Ruby analysis in version 2.21.1

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released version 2.21.1 of CodeQL. Here’s what’s new and improved in this release.

GitHub Actions

  • This CodeQL release coincides with the general availability of support for analyzing GitHub Actions workflows. Learn more in the dedicated changelog post.
  • We’ve improved alert fix suggestions for the actions/missing-workflow-permissions query, making it easier for you to resolve alerts.

JavaScript/TypeScript

  • We’ve added new detections of sources and sinks in Next.js and DOM element references, improving the detection of XSS issues.
  • We’ve enhanced path injection detection for several additional methods.
  • We’ve fixed an issue where tsconfig.json files containing array literals and trailing commas weren’t correctly extracted.

Ruby

  • We’ve improved the rb/useless-assignment-to-local query, so you’ll see fewer false positives and will get helpful documentation for alerts.
  • The rb/uninitialized-local-variable query now only generates an alert when a variable is used as a method call receiver. This should reduce noise. In addition, new help content is available for this query.
  • Calls to super without explicit arguments now have their implicit arguments generated, resulting in more accurate analysis.

For a full list of changes, check out the complete changelog for version 2.21.1. Every new version of CodeQL is automatically deployed to users of GitHub code scanning on github.com. The new functionality in CodeQL 2.21.1 will also be included in GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) version 3.18. If you’re using an older version of GHES, you can manually upgrade your CodeQL version.

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