Copilot Chat in GitHub.com now can search across GitHub entities

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With this change, you can now use natural language within Copilot Chat in GitHub.com to search across GitHub to find commits, issues, pull requests, repositories, and topics.

Try it yourself:
– What are the most recent issues assigned to me?
– What repos are related to [insert topic]?
– What is the most recent PR from @user?

We’ve also made some changes under the hood to make Copilot more efficient with how it stores conversation histories. This means that Copilot can now remember more of the history of your conversation which should result in more informed and reliable responses ✨.

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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 gives customers enhanced deployment requirements and security controls. Here are a few highlights in the 3.14 release:

  • SCIM for GHES is a popularly requested enterprise identity management feature, now available in public beta! SCIM stands for “System for Cross-domain Identity Management” and is a leading standard for user lifecycle management in SaaS applications. Enterprise administrators can configure SCIM for their GitHub Enterprise Server instance, which supports automatic provisioning of new user accounts and groups through our SCIM API. We support several paved path applications such as Entra ID and Okta that combine SAML and SCIM support in one place. Additionally, you may bring your own SAML identity provider and SCIM implementation to GitHub Enterprise Server to satisfy your unique identity and user lifecycle management needs. To get started, visit our SCIM documentation for GitHub Enterprise Server. While in public beta, we recommend testing SCIM support for your identity system in a non-production GHES environment before adding SCIM to your current setup. SCIM support can be added onto existing SAML implementations, but it will require using a new application that supports automated provisioning via SCIM in your IdP. Existing private beta customers should also reconfigure their implementation with updated IdP applications.

  • SAML settings are now visible as a read-only configuration in the enterprise settings page. Enterprise administrators are able to view these settings in the same place where SCIM support is configured for your enterprise instance.

  • We’re introducing custom organization roles, allowing you to delegate some of the organization’s administrative duties to trusted teams and users. Organization admins will have both the UI and API to manage these custom roles. See custom organization roles.

  • Code scanning option for repository rules is now available in public beta in GHES. Now, you can create a dedicated code scanning rule to block pull request merges instead of relying on status checks. This makes it easier than ever to prevent new vulnerabilities from being introduced into a code base. See set code scanning merge protection.

  • Dependabot grouped security updates are now generally available. This feature automatically groups Dependabot pull requests and lets you specify several additional options to fine tune groupings. You can enable grouped security updates for Dependabot at the repository or organization-level. If you would like more granular control over Dependabot’s grouping, you can also configure the dependabot.yml file in a repository.

  • With Generation 2 VM support, Operators can scale the GHES appliance vertically. New installs of 3.14 and later will boot on newer generation hardware by supporting both boot firmwares, BIOS, and UEFI. See Generation 2 VMs.

  • On an instance with multiple replica nodes, to start or stop replication for all nodes in a single configuration run, Operators can use the ghe-repl-start-all and ghe-repl-stop-all commands.

Read more about GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 in the release notes, or download it now. If you have any issues upgrading your GitHub Enterprise Server Appliance to version 3.14, or problems using new features, please contact our Support team.

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CodeQL code scanning can analyze Java and C# codebases without needing a build (GA)

CodeQL code scanning can now analyze Java and C# code without having to observe a build. This makes it easier to roll out the security analysis on large numbers of repositories, especially when enabling and managing repositories with GHAS security configurations.

CodeQL is the analysis engine that powers GitHub code scanning. When analyzing source code, it is important that the analysis engine has detailed knowledge of all aspects of the codebase. Now, the analysis engine no longer depends on observing the build process for Java and C# code, resulting in higher setup success and adoption rates for CodeQL code scanning (Java and C#).

During the testing of this feature, we validated that the analysis results were as accurate as the previous methodology. This feature was previously in public beta earlier this year (Java, C#), when it became the new default analysis mode for new users of CodeQL code scanning for these languages. Some customers experienced time significant savings as some tasks that previously took weeks now are achievable in minutes.

CodeQL’s new zero-configuration analysis mechanisms for both Java and C# are available on GitHub.com. If you are setting up CodeQL code scanning for these repositories, you will benefit from this analysis mechanism by default. If you set up CodeQL code scanning for Java or C# before their respective public beta releases of this feature, your analysis will remain unchanged (but can be migrated by disabling the current configuration and re-enabling code scanning using default setup). This new functionality will also be released to our GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) customers starting with version 3.14 for Java and 3.15 for C#.

Repositories that use code scanning advanced setup will continue to use whichever analysis mechanism is specified in the Actions workflow file. The template for new analysis configurations now uses the new analysis mechanism by specifying `build-mode: none`. The old analysis mechanisms remain available. Users of the CodeQL CLI can find more documentation here.

Learn more about GitHub code scanning. If you have any feedback about these new analysis mechanisms for Java and C#, please join the discussion here.

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