Deprecating “Featured Customers” section in GitHub Marketplace listings

GitHub Marketplace will be deprecating the “Featured Customers” section from app listing pages. This change will not cause any breaking changes. Here’s what publishers need to know:

Timeline:

  • January 27, 2025: Featured Customers sections will no longer be visible on public Marketplace listings
  • March 3, 2025: The Featured Customers section in publisher dashboards will be completely removed

Publishers can continue showcasing customer success stories directly in their app listing descriptions. However, GitHub will not review or approve customer lists provided in listing descriptions. Publishers are responsible for:

  • Obtaining explicit permission from customers before featuring them
  • Ensuring all customer usage claims are accurate and truthful

If a customer reports that they are falsely listed as a user of an app/extension, GitHub may review the authenticity of these claims. Listings found to be making false claims about customer usage will be notified, and may be removed from GitHub Marketplace.

Publishers with existing Featured Customers sections should save this information from the publisher settings before March 3rd if they wish to migrate it to their listing description.

This change helps streamline the Marketplace experience and aligns with our ongoing improvements to listing pages.

Copilot Workspace Updates: improved navigation and file management

This week’s Copilot Workspace updates are focused on improvements to navigation and file management. As ever, drop your feedback into this discussion.

Simpler file tree navigation

When folders don’t have any direct file children but only have other folders as children, we now combine those into one folder to reduce the amount of nesting in the file tree.

In addition, when you open the file tree and have generated files, we now show Changed files as the default viewing mode.

combine paths with single child

Delete a file from the actions menu

By clicking on the ellipses in a file, you’re now able to delete a file directly from the actions menu of Copilot Workspace.

delete file navigation

Opening files now opens them in an ephemeral tab

When you click a file in the tree, a new ephemeral tab is opened. When you double-click a file in the tree, it opens as a new regular tab. This aligns with the experience of most other IDEs and keeps your open tab list to just the ones you need.

Forwarded ports are easier to access

Now, when a command action uses port forwarding, a globe icon is added next to the command row, allowing you to view a live preview of the running port.

port forwarding button example

Improved screen layout in pull requests for smaller devices

Now, when working on smaller screens, the commit panel and suggestions pane will close as necessary, to better fit within your screen.

We want to hear from you

Please drop any and all feedback in our GitHub Discussion. We appreciate any and all feedback you have!

See more

Updated headers for GitHub Copilot Extension requests

On March 31, 2025, GitHub Copilot Extensions will require an updated header format for agent requests. Both updated and previous versions of the request headers will be supported until then. These headers denote requests that come from GitHub and enable your extension to communicate with GitHub.

Updated headers:
– X-GitHub-Public-Key-Identifier
– X-GitHub-Public-Key-Signature

Previous headers, to be deprecated on March 31, 2025:
– Github-Public-Key-Identifier
– Github-Public-Key-Signature

Please update your relevant checks to the correct headers by March 31, 2025 for a consistent experience and to avoid breaking changes. To learn more, visit this page.

See more
View all changes