I’ve always felt that my experience with the GitHub Copilot CLI isn’t very good — it’s far less comfortable than OpenCode. Today, when testing using the CLI to translate the contents of a text file, the processing was not only very slow but the results were also far from ideal (translation formatting was problematic, and calling local PowerShell commands took a while to figure out), even much worse than the online version of DeepSeek. I suspect my local Copilot CLI version is too old, so I want to upgrade to the latest version to see if there are any improvements.
Check current version
> copilot.exe version
GitHub Copilot CLI 0.0.418
Update available: 1.0.7
Run 'copilot update' to update, or download from: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.7
As you can see, the version I currently have installed is 0.0.418, while the latest version is 1.0.7. It seems my version is too old.
Upgrade command
> copilot.exe update
Checking for updates...
This message is misleading — although it displays “Checking for updates…”, it has actually already started downloading in the background. You can see from the Windows Task Manager that the copilot process has begun downloading the update from GitHub’s CDN. However, download speeds in China are very slow, only about 10 KB/s… be patient.
When the upgrade completes you’ll see the version number changed to the latest:
> copilot.exe update
Checking for updates...
Copilot CLI version 1.0.7 downloaded.
> copilot.exe version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.7
You are running the latest version.
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