GitHub Copilot app's rebuilt pull request view stays fast on extreme diffs
GitHub says the view remains fast and smooth for a pull request with 2,200 files, more than 1 million changed lines, and more than 400 inline comments.
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View all AI newsCline Desktop v0.0.34 adds worktrees, GitHub PR status, and parallel subagents
Parallel tasks each run on a separate branch under ~/.cline/worktrees/<id>. The release also shows a branch’s pull request link, merge status, and CI checks when gh is available, and can assign several tasks to subagents in one session.
GitHub will host beginner livestreams on the Copilot SDK starting September 24
GitHub will host beginner-friendly livestreams starting September 24 on building agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK without implementing the agent loop. The series includes .NET and Java sessions, with sign-up in six languages.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot
AnthropicAI's Claude Opus 5.5 is generally available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, long-running agentic tasks, and knowledge work. GitHub's early testing found task resolution comparable to Claude Opus 5, with significantly fewer steps and tokens and fast error recovery on multistep tasks.
LangChain's Managed Deep Agents can open GitHub pull requests from Slack
LangChain says Managed Deep Agents can build these agents with a few lines of code. Its example, Patch, is tagged in a Slack thread, given a feature description, and opens a pull request that includes the diff.
GitHub says one engineer and agents ported Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines
GitHub said one engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality.
GitHub Copilot desktop app to add editable diffs
Alberto Gimeno said editable diffs are coming soon to the GitHub Copilot desktop app, so last tweaks can be made directly in the diff while reviewing changes.