AZ526618 - Generally Available: GitHub Copilot app modernization expanded capabilities

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Published

Nov 18, 2025

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • November 2025
    General Availability

Tag

Features

Description

Announcing new enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that are Generally Available, making it easier than ever to modernize applications, databases, containers, and accelerate migration to Azure. Below capabilities are now Generally Available: 

For Java applications:  

  • Improved custom tasks now offer support for diffs, text, and markdown files, along with instructions designed to address specific modernization requirements 
  • Extended IDE support from Visual Studio Code to IntelliJ  

For .NET applications:  

  • Upgrade capabilities to cover .NET Framework to .NET version upgrades for web apps available in Visual Studio  

Containerization capability with containerization assist integration  

  • Automatically generate Dockerfiles and related artifacts such as building images for deployment to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AKS Automatic, or Azure Container Apps (ACA)

Deployment on Azure for streamlined modernization and migration:

  • Automatically generate Bicep files and related artifacts for deployment to App Service, App Service Managed Instance, AKS, AKS Automatic, or ACA

These capabilities help streamline modernization projects, reduce manual effort, and accelerate your journey to Azure.

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