Featured Sponsors

Maintainers can now display their top sponsors on their Sponsors profile. Users can opt to manually select up to 10 sponsors, automatically display their top funders or opt out of displaying featured sponsors altogether.

To learn more about featured sponsors, please visit our GitHub Sponsors docs.

Secret scanning alerts for non-provider patterns and passwords are retrievable with the REST API

Secret scanning alerts for non-provider patterns and generic passwords can now be retrieved using the REST API.

With the “List secret scanning alerts” endpoint for an enterprise, organization, or repository, you can use the query parameter secret_type to request alerts for non-provider patterns or passwords. To retrieve alerts for non-provider patterns, use the “Token” value in this table. To retrieve alerts for passwords, use the value password.

The secret_type parameter can be used to return several secret types, separated by commas: e.g. api.github.com/orgs/ORG/secret-scanning/alerts?secret_type=rsa_private_key,password.

Alerts for non-provider patterns and passwords are not returned by default with the “List secret scanning alerts” endpoint; they must be specifically requested.

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Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in VS Code for C++ Developers

GitHub Copilot code completions are autocomplete-stye suggestions that appear inline as you code. Until today, they have used context from your active file and other tabs open in the editor to inform the suggestion that is returned. However, we know that more contextually relevant input leads to better suggestions. Our team has made changes to the C/C++ extension and the GitHub Copilot extension in VS Code to ensure that other relevant C++ context — like available types and methods — are also provided to Copilot completions.

When you use the latest version of the C/C++ extension and the GitHub Copilot extension together in VS Code, directly-referenced header files will be automatically considered when gathering additional context for Copilot completions, even if they’re not open in the editor. This helps to reduce hallucinations and provide more relevant suggestions.

To get started, make sure you’re using the GitHub Copilot extension version 1.205 or later and have an active GitHub Copilot subscription. You’ll also need the C/C++ extension version 1.21 or later with IntelliSense configured correctly. Our team is committed to C++ Copilot support in both Visual Studio and VS Code, and similar support is coming to Visual Studio in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12.

See more details in the C++ team blog here.

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