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GitHub Delivers Copilot Enterprise for Large Organizations
GitHub Copilot Enterprise, a Copilot plan available for enterprises that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud, is now generally available. It offers AI capabilities to improve the user's experience on GitHub.com, including the option to communicate with Copilot directly in the browser and to access Copilot's context from different project repositories.
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Airbnb’s CI/CD Framework Employs Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite for Efficient Software Delivery
Airbnb recently discussed a DevOps framework tailored to their CRM platform, integrating Salesforce DX, Git, and Buildkite. This framework facilitates the involvement of all stakeholders, from developers to low-code users, in the development and deployment process. Using the DevOps framework, Airbnb has reduced deployment time from 90 to 15 minutes.
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Collecting Git Performance Data Using trace2receiver and OpenTelemetry
GitHub recently introduced trace2receiver, an open-source tool that integrates with OpenTelemetry to analyze Git performance data. This tool allows users to identify performance issues, detect early signs of trouble, and highlight areas where Git itself can be enhanced.
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Microsoft Announces Git Partial Clone Support in Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps has recently extended support for Git Partial Clone to all its users. Partial clones represent a streamlined version of git clones initiated through specific command line arguments. Repositories that employ partial clones have demonstrated an average reduction of 88.6% in cloning time.
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Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 1: Refreshed UI, Debugging, AI, Productivity and More
Microsoft has released the first preview of Visual Studio version 17.9. Preview 1 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity. Including some AI features like GitHub Copilot, IntelliSense support for Unreal Engine projects, memory management and debugging improvements and this preview version is packed with refreshed UI.
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GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.
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Open Source Git Project Releases Version 2.40
Recently, the open-source Git project released its latest version 2.40, bringing some new features and bug fixes. Highlights of this release include updates to git jump tool, enhancements to cat-file tool, and faster response on Windows.
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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git's commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.
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JetBrains Launches Containerized Dev Env Space On-Premises In Feature-Constrained Beta
Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud. The beta includes support for most of the features available in Space Cloud except for development environments, which will be included in the final release, says JetBrains.
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AWS Proton Adds Terraform Support and Git Template Storage
AWS recently announced two new additions to AWS Proton, their fully-managed application delivery service. The first feature allows for defining and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform. The second feature allows for using Git repositories to manage the Proton templates.
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GitHub CLI 2.0 Brings Support for Extensions
With its new major version, GitHub CLI enables extending its basic feature set by installing and running extensions. A GitHub CLI extension is just a repository prefixed with gh- and providing an executable file with the same name as the repository.
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Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background
Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.