Added controls for Copilot's reasoning behavior and model selection
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Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2026. Useful releases, risky migrations, and noisy updates from the GitHub channel.
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GitHub updates in 2026-w35
Introduced Copilot team sessions integration for Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing collaborative AI assistance.
Announces three upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing.
Introduces Suggested Labels for issues, helping users discover and apply appropriate labels
Added support for reviewing pull requests authored by bots, including Copilot cloud agents
GitHub Classroom is officially deprecated as of August 28, 2026
Extends the Actions retention setting to cover checks, workflow runs, and status records
Added ability to automatically close all open issues, discussions, and pull requests authored by a user when they are blocked.
Add autoUpdate:boolean to extraKnownMarketplaces in enterprise-managed settings
Out‑of‑band release correcting Node version display that mistakenly showed an alpha tag.
Introduced a default model policy for generally available GitHub Copilot models on Business and Enterprise plans
Switch TLS certificates to Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Services in February 2027.
Added new APIs and performance enhancements: benchmark analyze mode, histogram hypothesis testing, net.BlockList speedup, repl syntax highlighting, sqlite StatementSync.close & Symbol.dispose, non‑throwing MIMEType.parse, zlib ZipEntry/Z...
AsyncLocalStorage now supports using scopes and improved trackPromises validation; Buffer gains an end parameter with related bug fixes.
Enterprise owners can grant GitHub Apps permission to read enterprise billing data.
The Rule Insights dashboard is now generally available.
Introduces a new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app, now generally available.
Add UI to block users directly from security advisory pages in public repositories
Add support for path exceptions in push rule configurations, allowing rules to apply everywhere except specified file paths