0.29.0

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Add support for Google Gemini as a chat model.
• Supports files with different line endings like \r and \r\n. #404
• Supports extensions built with CopilotForXcodeKit.
• Improve prompts of prompt to code.
• Improve behavior of chat when it tries to read the code at specific line.
• Other small fixes.

0.28.4 Extension Preview

This is a preview build that supports extensions built with CopilotForXcodeKit

0.28.3

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Bump GitHub Copilot language server to 1.12.1.
• Bump Codeium language server to 1.6.6.
• Show reference item kind in the reference list.
• Improve reference retrieval.
• Fix that extensions are not correctly handled when used as references.
• Fix that git ignored files are still used as references in some cases.
• Fix that prompt to code can't be opened in some cases.
• Increase the speed of swift cheatsheet generation, but this feature is still not very effective at the moment.

0.28.2

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Fix git ignore check. #400

New in 0.28.0

• Prompt to code will now generate code with the knowledge of content below/above the selection. (50 lines above and 30 below, will be adjusted to be more dynamic in the future)

• Prompt to code now supports @sense scope.

• Chat now knows which scope(method, implementation, etc.) is under the text cursor for Objective-C.

• Chat will display the references used when the @sense or @project scope is used.

• The app will now treat files in .gitignore differently:

  • Suggestion feature will be disabled.
  • Chat and prompt to code will not read the code until you manually select them.
  • Code inside those files will not be used as references.

  You can turn it off in the advanced settings if you don't mind the code being read.

• Fix that programmatically trigger command may fail silently when the app can't find the active Xcode. Now it will throw an error and use the fallback solution. If you cannot accept a suggestion through UI, it may be the cause.

Known issues:

• The @sense scope will not work if the text cursor is at the top level of the code.

0.28.1

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Disable git ignore check by default because some users report that it's not working correctly. #400

New in 0.28.0

• Prompt to code will now generate code with the knowledge of content below/above the selection.

• Prompt to code now supports @sense scope.

• Chat now knows which scope(method, implementation, etc.) is under the text cursor for Objective-C.

• Chat will display the references used when the @sense or @project scope is used.

• The app will now treat files in .gitignore differently:

  • Suggestion feature will be disabled.
  • Chat and prompt to code will not read the code until you manually select them.
  • Code inside those files will not be used as references.

  You can turn it off in the advanced settings if you don't mind the code being read.

• Fix that programmatically trigger command may fail silently when the app can't find the active Xcode. Now it will throw an error and use the fallback solution. If you cannot accept a suggestion through UI, it may be the cause.

Known issues:

• The @sense scope will not work if the text cursor is at the top level of the code.

0.28.0

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Prompt to code will now generate code with the knowledge of content below/above the selection.

• Prompt to code now supports @sense scope.

• Chat now knows which scope(method, implementation, etc.) is under the text cursor for Objective-C.

• Chat will display the references used when the @sense or @project scope is used.

• The app will now treat files in .gitignore differently:

  • Suggestion feature will be disabled.
  • Chat and prompt to code will not read the code until you manually select them.
  • Code inside those files will not be used as references.

  You can turn it off in the advanced settings if you don't mind the code being read.

• Fix that programmatically trigger command may fail silently when the app can't find the active Xcode. Now it will throw an error and use the fallback solution. If you cannot accept a suggestion through UI, it may be the cause.

Known issues:

• The @sense scope will not work if the text cursor is at the top level of the code.

0.27.1

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Fix that displaying widgets through hotkey doesn't activate the extension app. #395
• Fix that running the open chat and prompt to code command doesn't activate the extension app.
• Fix that the above cases don't move focus to the text field.
• Fix that the prompt to code doesn't reactivate when continuous mode is on after accepting the suggestion.
• Ignore chunk ID from stream replies. #382
• Fix that some tasks were not correctly canceled in suggestion cheatsheet generation, which caused high CPU usage.

0.27.0

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• Update the GitHub Copilot language server to 1.11.4. The recommended node version is v18.
• Update the Codeium language server to 1.4.15.
• [Plus, Free Trial] Add a @sense scope that collects the relevant code interfaces of the focused code.
• Support setting default scopes and preferred models for each scope in the chat settings. You can also over-write it in the chat tab menu.
• [Plus, Free Trial] Suggestion Cheatsheet: This feature will insert relevant information (type interfaces from your codebase, from third-party packages, or other instructions, etc.) into the editing file while generating suggestions. Technically, it can make the suggestions more accurate. It is still in an experimental stage with the following limitations:
  • Only works for Swift and Podfile.
  • For better performance, it collects information at most once every 5 seconds. This can be triggered by moving the text cursor.
  • If you are writing new code, you will have to save the file to update the index so that it can get the right information.
  • You can turn it on in the suggestion feature settings.
• Add new OpenAI chat models.
• Adjust the title bar size of the chat panel.
• Adjust the behavior of the stick-to-bottom feature of the chat panel. Fix #387.
• Adjust the system prompt position in chat so the bot may understand it better. Fix #385
• Fix that the prompt to code window won't sometimes pop up.
• Fix a crash when the bot tries to get the focused code.

Learn more about it from the release discussion!

0.26.0

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• (Plus, Free until 10/30) Terminal Tab: You can now open a terminal tab from the chat panel. Shell integration is not implemented yet.
• (Experimental) @project scope:
  • Supports searching for symbol name synonyms.
  • Remove duplicated content from RAG.
  • Prompt improvements.
  • Performance improvements.
• Adds a new custom command template parameter {{clipboard}}.
• The prompt to code custom command now supports template parameters.
• You can now set a global hotkey to show/hide the widgets. The setting is under the general tab in the host app.

Learn more about it from the release discussion!

0.25.0

Please run Copilot for Xcode.app once and restart Xcode to complete the update.

• (Experimental) Update the @project scope to use RAG, which is much faster and more reliable. However, there is still some additional work to be done to complete this feature.

  If you have any ideas about the @project scope and want to know its current status, feel free to join this discussion!

• Chat

  • Prevent auto-scroll to the bottom when you are scrolling up.
  • Add a scroll to bottom button.
  • Allow disabling code wrapping.

• Support reordering chat tabs.

Go to the release discussion to learn more about this release.