GitHub Dependabot now natively supports automatic dependency updates for pre-commit hooks. By adding pre-commit as a package ecosystem in your dependabot.yml configuration, Dependabot will parse your .pre-commit-config.yaml, check each hook’s…
GitHub Copilot users can now connect to the Figma MCP server to both pull design context into code and send rendered UI to Figma as editable frames. Together, these capabilities…
The Visual Studio Code February 2026 release makes agents practical for longer-running and more complex tasks. This gives you more control over how they run, new ways to extend what…
GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s latest agentic coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. In our early testing of real-world, agentic, and software development capabilities, GPT-5.4 consistently hits new rates of…
GitHub Enterprise AI Controls and agent control plane now includes additional session filters, making it easier to discover and manage agent activity across your enterprise. What’s new In addition to…
You can ask Copilot coding agent to make changes in any pull request by mentioning @copilot. This works in pull requests created by Copilot and in pull requests created by…
Hierarchy view improvements in GitHub Projects You now have several improvements to hierarchy view in GitHub Projects based on your feedback: Filter sub-issues: You can now filter sub-issues using syntax…
You can now assign Jira issues to GitHub Copilot coding agent, our asynchronous, autonomous agent, and get AI-generated draft pull requests created in your GitHub repository. When you assign a…
Copilot code review now runs on an agentic tool-calling architecture and is generally available for all users with Copilot Pro, Copilot Pro+, Copilot Business, and Copilot Enterprise. For background, see…
We are rolling out the pull request merge status at the top of every pull request page! Check merge readiness from anywhere in the pull request experience, including the new…
Quick start your agent session by starting from an image. Simply paste, drag, or click the image icon to wherever you work with agents on github.com (e.g., from the recently…
As a follow-up to last week’s release of enterprise-level CLI telemetry, we’re expanding coverage to the user-level. You can now view CLI-specific activity and usage totals in order to: Understand…
The February update to Visual Studio 2026 brings expanded agent capabilities, smarter code completions, and deeper Copilot integration across debugging, testing, and modernization workflows in Visual Studio. Highlights Here’s what’s…
Repository administrators can now lock draft repository security advisories and private vulnerability reports to prevent collaborators from editing advisory content or metadata. When locked, only administrators can make changes; collaborators…
Grok Code Fast 1 is generally available to Copilot Free plans via Copilot auto model selection. This model is now added to the list of possible models that Copilot might…
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