Increased items in GitHub Projects now in public preview

Following our opt-in preview last October, we’re excited to expand item limits for all projects — increasing from 1,200 to 50,000 items per project.

Since the last release, we’ve added support for project insights and mobile, addressed your top bug reports, and delivered key performance improvements.

We’re rolling out increased limits incrementally over the next week. If you see the Increased items preview pill in your project, you’re now in the preview.

Insights for all

With this release, we’re also making project insights fully accessible to all plans—removing paid gating entirely. All plans now have access to both current state and historical charts in public and private repositories, with no feature restrictions. Learn more about insights for projects.

For questions and feedback, join the discussion within the GitHub Community.

Copilot secret scanning can be enabled through code security configurations

Copilot secret scanning, which scans for passwords using AI, offers greater precision for detecting unstructured credentials that can cause security breaches if exposed.

You can now use code security configurations to enable Copilot secret scanning across your enterprise or organization, allowing you to control which repositories are detecting passwords at scale.

Copilot secret scanning is available for all repositories with a GitHub Advanced Security license. You do not need a Copilot license. To give you control over how AI is used across your repositories, Copilot secret scanning is not included in the GitHub Recommended configuration.

Learn more about protecting your repositories with secret scanning and generic secret detection.

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Code review in GitHub Copilot is now in public preview

Copilot Code Review

No more wait: Copilot code review is here

Code review is one of the most critical parts of software development. Manual code reviews, while essential, can be time-consuming. Copilot code review helps you offload basic reviews to a Copilot agent that finds bugs, potential performance problems, and even suggests automatic fixes. This means you can start iterating on your code while you wait for a human review—helping you keep your code repositories more maintainable and focused on quality.

Today we’re excited to announce that all Copilot subscribers can now use Copilot code review, with a host of updates that we’ve made since its initial preview. To get started, sign up here.

What’s new

  • Review summary: Copilot gives you a detailed summary of the changes in a pull request—bridging the gap between automated feedback and human insight.
  • Smarter reviews: We’re leveraging the latest models to provide even more insightful and effective feedback, identifying potential issues you might otherwise miss.

Here’s Copilot code review in action, providing a summary of the pull request and some suggested improvements:

To request a code review from Copilot, you can set up automatic reviews in a repo through repository rules. Or, if you prefer, you can ask Copilot to review a pull request on demand.

You can also jump directly into the new Copilot Workspace experience from your pull request, to refine and validate Copilot’s suggestions. And don’t forget, you can always review your code in Visual Studio Code before you push it to GitHub, keeping your development process agile and efficient.

To learn more, check out the docs. We can’t wait for you to try out these improvements, and we’d love your feedback in this GitHub Community Discussion.

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