GitHub

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Users can now pin saved issue views directly in the repository’s issues sidebar for one‑click access

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Adds Windows 11 arm64 runner image with Visual Studio 2026 to GitHub‑hosted runners

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Introduce a new "Mitigated" dismissal reason for code scanning alerts, enabling dismissal when external controls reduce risk.

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Introduces a dedicated workflow path for CodeQL code‑quality actions

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Adds audit log events for enabling, disabling, and updating GitHub Code Quality settings per repository

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Introduces source modeling for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue in CodeQL.

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Add a Trends tab to the organization-level Code Quality dashboard for viewing code quality changes over time

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Added enterprise‑managed settings to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes.

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Introduce token-type and user-specific actions to deauthorize and revoke credentials during security incidents.

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Adds support for multiple redirect URIs in OAuth apps

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Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot.

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Added new AI models for GitHub Copilot

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GitHub now pulls license data from package registries such as npmjs.org and PyPI

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You can block or unblock users directly from pull request and issue comments in personal repositories.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash model is now integrated into GitHub Copilot

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Introduced Agent Plugins 1.0, allowing a single plugin build to run across all compatible agent clients

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Rule insights dashboard is now publicly previewed for organizations

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Introduces GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate with new platform capabilities

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Introduces persistent memory for Copilot sessions in JetBrains IDEs

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Added ability to convert existing branch protection rules into repository rulesets directly from repository settings.

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MAI-Code-1-Flash will be deprecated on September 10 2026 concurrent with the release of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash.

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MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, the latest small-tier coding model, is now available in GitHub Copilot.

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Added per-model token breakdown to the AI usage report, displaying input, output, and cache tokens for each model.

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Added quick access to recent Copilot Chat conversations on github.com

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Added support for automatic recurring payments for Indian customers using saved credit cards

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GitHub will remove support for custom thread subscription settings

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Added context‑aware resume and organization features across the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code extensions.

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Enterprise owners can now install public third‑party GitHub Apps on their enterprise account

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Added a “Potential return on investment” section to the Copilot impact dashboard

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Introduce Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review, now generally available

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Extends the Copilot usage metrics API to include activity from GitHub agent apps such as Claude and Codex.

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Adds the “Relates to” issue relationship, graduating from public preview to general availability

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Expanded secret scanning to block additional secret types via push protection

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GitHub Code Quality no longer automatically adds a Copilot reviewer when enabled on a repository.

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Added enterprise-managed settings keys `allowedMcpServers` and `deniedMcpServers` for centrally controlling which MCP servers GitHub Copilot can use.

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Add ability to configure pull request limits at the organization level

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Kimi K3 model added to GitHub Copilot

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Add the `github-codeql-config-file` repository property to specify a custom CodeQL configuration for the default code scanning setup.

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The GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app has been retired and is no longer available.

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GitHub Spark stops accepting new users and creation of new apps starting August 4 2026

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Add new `pull-request-branch-name` options in .github/dependabot.yml to customize Dependabot PR branch prefixes and maximum length.

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Adds a new option in Code Quality settings to automatically enable code coverage

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Add support for Swift 6.3.3 in CodeQL analysis.

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Add ability to set the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent tasks

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Allows enterprise admins to assign team‑specific managed settings via per‑team configuration files

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Add Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue or PR comment is created

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Users with the triage role can now create issues even when a repository restricts issue creation to collaborators

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Migrations from GitLab.com and self‑managed instances to GitHub Enterprise Cloud are now generally available via GitHub Enterprise Importer.

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Deprecates specified GitHub Copilot models across all experiences (Chat, inline edits, ask, agent modes, code completions).

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Deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash models across all GitHub Copilot experiences.

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Introduces public preview of user‑based model policy targeting for GitHub Enterprise customers with Copilot Business or Enterprise licenses

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Granular access tokens that could bypass 2FA can no longer perform sensitive account, organization, or package management actions.

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Retired GitHub Models on July 30 2026, disabling the playground, model catalog, inference API, and BYOK for all customers.

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Add self-repository syntax ($/) for referencing actions or reusable workflows within the same repository

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Introduces public preview of stacked pull requests, allowing large changes to be split into ordered, reviewable PR layers

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Introduced a new Copilot agent built on the Copilot SDK for Visual Studio.

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Adds ability for admins to restrict remote‑controlled Copilot sessions to managed devices only

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Enhanced agent integration for smoother AI-assisted workflows

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Copilot code review now fully supports agent skills and MCP servers for all Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans

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Adds a global default enablement policy for GA Copilot models on Business and Enterprise plans

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Updated CodeQL to version 2.26.1

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Expanded Copilot app usage metrics to cover additional API report rollups.

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Introduces automatic malware scanning of packages at publish time to enhance supply‑chain security.

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Grok 4.5, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot.

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Dependabot now ingests malware advisories from the OpenSSF malicious‑packages repository

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GitHub Actions now automatically holds potentially malicious workflows for manual approval before execution.

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Adds ability to connect MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows

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Introduce a dedicated policy for the GitHub Copilot app

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Adds enterprise‑managed settings for the GitHub Copilot app and cloud agent.

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Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's newest model, is now integrated into GitHub Copilot.

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Introduces the generally available Copilot cloud agent integration for Linear

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Added support for the upcoming stateless MCP protocol (effective 28 July 2026).

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Added ability to invoke Copilot cloud agent from GitHub Mobile to investigate and automatically fix failing GitHub Actions checks on a pull request.

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Adds public preview of multi-select fields for Projects and Issues

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Introduces public preview of automation controls for GitHub Issues (labeling, typing, assigning, closing).

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Introduced a new Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners

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GitHub Enterprise Server will reject support bundle uploads starting August 18 2026

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Gemini 3.6 Flash model is now integrated into GitHub Copilot.

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Added UI controls to create and edit AI credit pools for cost centers

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Added UI for Copilot Business and Enterprise users to view AI credit usage per billing cycle

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GitHub Code Quality is now generally available on Enterprise Cloud and Team plans

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Adds repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics via new REST API endpoints

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Adds GitHub Copilot app usage data to the usage metrics API for enterprise and organization reports

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Added firewall integration for Copilot code review to enhance security

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Adds a 'Fix with Copilot' button to GitHub Mobile pull request views, enabling Copilot cloud agent fixes directly from mobile.

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Added advanced search to the Projects filter bar with logical AND/OR operators.

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Admins can archive pull requests, which closes and locks them to remove from public view.

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Added new REST API endpoints for GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins to manage Visual Studio Subscription assignments

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Added public preview of Xcode 27 runner image on GitHub‑hosted macOS runners

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Added Resend as a GitHub secret scanning partner, expanding coverage

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Added usage dashboards in Visual Studio for clearer insight into Copilot usage

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Added BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) support across all Copilot for JetBrains tiers, letting users manage their own encryption keys

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GitHub code scanning now shows AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests.

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Adds a default three‑day cooldown before Dependabot opens version‑update PRs.

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Introduces the /security-review slash command to run security reviews on in‑flight code changes directly from the GitHub Copilot app.

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Adds REST API endpoints to list, create, and edit secret scanning custom patterns

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Introduced a public preview that displays the number of active committers on repositories using GitHub Code Quality.

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Split the previous combined SSO & Organizations settings page into separate SSO and Organizations pages.

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Added support for Kotlin 2.4.0 in CodeQL queries

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Rename secret scanning detector types for clearer, more descriptive names

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Added a new REST API endpoint to retrieve each user's progress in multi-user budgets.

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Added filter options for Copilot sessions in GitHub Mobile

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Introduces a GA pull requests dashboard at github.com/pulls

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Introduces the GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) to GitHub Copilot

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Added organization-level targeting for GitHub Code Quality, allowing owners to enable or disable the feature for specific repositories

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Adds a Copilot prompt that generates a high‑level overview of any repository on its home page.

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GitHub Advanced Security enterprise customers can now publish innersource security advisories, a generally available feature.

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Adds enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export configuration for GitHub Copilot in VS Code and CLI, letting organizations centrally define collector endpoints

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Enterprise admins can push GitHub Copilot settings to devices via native MDM and file‑based configuration

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Updated GitHub Copilot integration across VS Code v1.123‑v1.127 released June–early July 2026

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Adds cryptographic signature verification for downloaded JDKs to improve security.

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npm v12 is now generally available and set as the default latest version

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Adds support for fixing pull request merge conflicts directly in GitHub Mobile using the Copilot cloud agent.

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GitHub Mobile now receives live notifications for remote Copilot CLI sessions

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Added two code‑review velocity metrics to the Copilot usage metrics API

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Added Codex as a new agent provider in public preview

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Kimi K2.7 model added to Copilot Business and Enterprise plans.

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Enterprise admins can now create per‑user budgets directly within the cost center billing UI.

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Adds enriched metadata to GitHub secret scanning, giving ownership and impact details for supported secret types.

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Adds the ability to restrict which users can dismiss pull request reviews via repository rulesets

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GitHub Copilot app is now available across all Copilot plans

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Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3, 2026

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Added reporting of suggested lines of code to the Copilot CLI usage metrics

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Deprecating Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (Chat, inline edits, ask/agent modes, and code completions).

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Copilot CLI can now authenticate using the built‑in GITHUB_TOKEN within GitHub Actions

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Public preview of Copilot agent session streaming for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers

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Added AI credit pool support for cost centers, allowing caps on monthly included AI credit usage.

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Issue fields are now generally available for all GitHub organizations on Free, Team, Enterprise, and Enterprise Cloud with data residency plans.

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Introduces public secret scanning monitoring for enterprise accounts.

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Enterprise admins can set "model": "auto" in managed-settings.json to enable auto model selection by default.

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GitHub Models will be fully retired on July 30 2026.

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Introduces GA of managed‑settings.json for GitHub Enterprise Cloud

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Adds secret scanning validators for Asana, IBM, and MessageBird

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Introduces Microsoft C++ Language Server as a Copilot Plugins marketplace plugin

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Kimi K2.7 Code open‑weight model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot.

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Copilot Vision launched as generally available.

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Added support for setting AI credit session limits in the Copilot CLI to cap agent spending per session.

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GitHub Copilot's browser tools for VS Code are now generally available.

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Copilot CLI now automatically selects the optimal model for each task

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General availability of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 model in GitHub Copilot.

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Introduce branch rulesets to enforce minimum code coverage thresholds on pull requests

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Added a sidebar table of contents to release pages for easier navigation.

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Integrates GitHub Copilot Agent into JetBrains AI Assistant, enabling Copilot features within JetBrains IDEs.

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Introduces public preview of open source license compliance for enterprises

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Dependabot stops automatically generating .npmrc settings for private npm registries.

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GitHub will retain data for closed Dependabot security alerts for a defined period starting August 25, 2026.

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Introduce access restrictions to several public API endpoints, requiring authentication or specific permissions.

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Admins can set a per‑user AI credit budget for each member of a cost center

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Claude Opus 4.8 fast mode is now available in preview on GitHub Copilot.

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Admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access.

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Adds total merge count per AI adoption phase to enterprise and organization reports

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GitHub Actions now issues read‑only cache tokens for workflow events triggered without write permissions.

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MAI-Code-1-Flash, Microsoft’s in‑house coding model, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise users

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Added Git worktree support, allowing multiple workspaces per repository directly in GitHub Desktop.

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Copilot code review now leverages built‑in file exploration tools from the Copilot CLI/SDK.

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Enterprises can now restrict which plugins users install in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code via the new strictKnownMarketplaces setting

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Introduces saved views for repository issue pages, allowing teams to create and share custom filtered views (public preview).

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Admins can disable standard GitHub-hosted runner labels (e.g., ubuntu-latest) to limit runner usage

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GitHub Actions now allows steps to execute concurrently using background processes

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Introduces a temporary preventive safeguard for high‑impact npm accounts.

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GitHub-hosted larger runners now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and RHEL 10 images in public preview.

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GitHub Copilot for Jira reaches general availability after public preview

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Enterprise teams can be added as resources in cost centers.

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Introduces break‑glass capability for GitHub Enterprise owners to instantly revoke all credentials of a compromised account

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Copilot Free and Student plans now default to auto model selection

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Secret scanning now captures extended metadata for Replicate secrets

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Added public preview read‑only REST endpoints for fetching repository‑level Code Quality findings.

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Dependabot can now read private GitHub Packages registries without using a personal access token.

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Introduces a GA tabbed terminal UI for GitHub Copilot CLI

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Dependabot drops support for Python 3.9 now that it has reached end-of-life.

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Added BYOK support to the GitHub Copilot app, enabling use of your own keys.

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Added support for organization and enterprise agents from GitHub.

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Added per-user daily AI credit consumption data to the Copilot usage metrics API.

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Opus 4.6 (fast) is being deprecated across all GitHub Copilot experiences (Chat, inline edits, ask, agent mode, and code completions).

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MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash model is now available across additional GitHub Copilot surfaces.

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Added support for repository-level AGENTS.md files in Copilot code review

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Introduce public preview of automatic duplicate issue detection to help maintainers triage efficiently

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Pull request author search now includes PRs created by the Copilot cloud agent on behalf of a user.

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Introduces a repository switcher in the global navigation for quick repository jumps

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Introduces the ability to build new custom GitHub Actions runner images using existing custom images as a base.

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Updated the checkout action to use safer default behavior for pull_request_target events, reducing token and secret exposure

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Introduces workflow execution protections in public preview for GitHub Enterprise, organizations, and repositories.

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Release notes now automatically list all pull requests merged since the previous release.

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Introduces two new GitHub CLI commands, `gh repo read-file` and `gh repo read-dir`, to view remote file contents and directory listings without cloning the repository.

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Added new partner integrations, expanding secret scanning detection coverage.

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Enterprise admins can now disable bypass permissions for Copilot via enterprise-managed settings

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Auto mode for Copilot Chat is now generally available to all users on GitHub.com and the mobile app.

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Adds a limit on how many open pull requests a user without write access can create in a repository

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Introduces Agent Finder, a new capability that automatically selects appropriate agents, skills, and tools for GitHub Copilot.

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Sign-ups for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans will resume gradually over the next weeks.

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GitHub Copilot app is now generally available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Added server‑side telemetry to Copilot usage metrics.

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Introduces organization runner controls for Copilot code review

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GitHub Actions will enforce minimum version requirements for self‑hosted runners on GitHub.com and Enterprise Cloud

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Adds organization custom properties for enhanced policy management.

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GitHub Actions bot can now open pull requests that are allowed to run CI/CD workflows

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AI usage reports now include GitHub AI Credits data in standard report fields.

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Introduces a unified /settings command for Copilot CLI configuration.

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Introduces two new GitHub‑hosted runner images available in public preview

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Introduces GitHub Agentic Workflows in public preview.

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GitHub Agentic Workflows can now authenticate using the built‑in GITHUB_TOKEN from GitHub Actions

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Adds a new `gh discussion` command group to the GitHub CLI.

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Added support for issue types in the GitHub CLI

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Improved handoff between Copilot Chat and the web-based Copilot cloud agent

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Maximum cost centers per enterprise increased from 250 to 500

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Added incremental analysis for CodeQL scans on pull requests for Go and C/C++, improving scan speed.

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Added a /security-review command to the GitHub Copilot CLI for running security reviews on code changes.

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Dependabot now supports version updates for Deno projects via a .github/dependabot.yml entry

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Introduces security‑focused default changes to npm install in upcoming v12

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Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's first Mythos-class model for long‑horizon autonomous coding and knowledge‑work, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot.

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Introduces scheduled security scans for repositories inactive for six months or more.

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Security validation for third‑party coding agents is now generally available.

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Adds support for native IP allow list enforcement on Enterprise Managed User (EMU) namespaces.

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Deprecate GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex models across GitHub Copilot experiences.

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Adds support for Swift 6.3.2 in CodeQL

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Added a one‑click “Fix with Copilot” button for failed GitHub Actions jobs for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users

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Adds the Agent Tasks REST API for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max, enabling programmatic start and tracking of cloud agent tasks.

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Introduces one‑million‑token context windows for GitHub Copilot