Cloud changelog digest

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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.