copilot.el 0.7

Good news, everyone – copilot.el 0.7 is out! And it’s a big one. Ever since I took over the maintenance of copilot.el in the spring of 2025, I’ve had one north star: close the gap between Emacs and the editors that enjoy first-party Copilot support. VS Code and (Neo)vim got the rich, official experience – chat, agents, the whole shebang – while we Emacs folks were stuck with humble ghost-text completion. That never sat right with me. Emacs deserves better. For a bit of perspective on the pace: in its first three years the project never shipped a single tagged release. 0.7 is the seventh I’ve cut since taking over. We’ve been busy. For a long time that gap felt unbridgeable. We were essentially reverse-engineering an undocumented protocol and replicating it in Elisp, always one step behind. But then Microsoft open-sourced @github/copilot-language-server, and everything changed. Suddenly we had a documented, first-party LSP server to talk to – the very same backend that powers Copilot…