High contrast theme improvements

A screenshot showing the adjusted UI elements for the high and dark color contrast themes

The light and dark high contrast themes have been updated to improve readability.

Now:

  • Both themes aim to meet a minimum contrast ratio of 7:1 for all elements, and the secondary or “muted” text and icons appear slightly lighter or darker than the default text, enhancing the visual hierarchy throughout GitHub’s interface.
  • In the light high contrast theme, the global navigation bar appears inset with a darker background color.
  • In the dark high contrast theme, the foreground text over solid backgrounds is now white, and higher contrast borders have been added to all interactive elements.

Copilot Enterprise now helps you fix failed Actions jobs, plus other August updates (public beta)

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In this latest release, you can now ask Copilot Chat in GitHub.com questions about failed Actions jobs. With this feature, you can now speed up your pull request review cycle by asking Copilot about build failures to quickly get them resolved. In addition, we’ve added a quality improvement to how Copilot Chat in GitHub.com handles complex questions. This internal improvement will help you get the most out of your Copilot Chat conversations. Both of these features are in beta.

Copilot Chat in GitHub.com now has knowledge of failed Actions jobs

You can now click into a failed job on a pull request and ask Copilot what went wrong.

Open an existing PR and try it yourself:
– Tell me why this job failed
– Suggest a fix for this error

To learn more, check out our documentation.

Copilot Chat in GitHub.com can now answer complex questions

Copilot Chat can now access context from multiple primitives across pull requests, commits, discussions, issues, code, repos, and more to provide informed responses to more complex questions.

See it live by asking:
– How do I get started in this project?
– What are all of the open PRs assigned to me?
– Who can I talk to about this project?
– What changed on this PR?

We’re excited to bring these more advanced Copilot capabilities to customers in beta and would love your feedback!

How to enable these beta features for your enterprise

An enterprise owner can enable beta features using the Copilot policy “Opt in to preview features.”

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For more information about policies for Copilot Enterprise, see the documentation.

Join the discussion within the GitHub Community.

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Code security configurations will replace feature enablement on the organization-level security coverage page on October 15

We are streamlining the deployment of GitHub’s security products at scale with code security configurations. This functionality simplifies the rollout of GitHub security products by defining collections of security settings and enabling you to apply those settings to groups of repositories. Configurations help you maintain security settings for important features like code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot.

As of October 15th, 2024, you will no longer be able to enable or disable GitHub security features for repositories from the organization-level security coverage view.

Learn more about code security configurations and send us your feedback.

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