04/2025

What’s changing? As part of our effort to help optimize activity feed load times and reduce timeouts, we’re migrating the organizational feed to a newer infrastructure. This migration from our…

Copilot Chat on github.com now supports organization custom instructions! This feature allows Copilot Enterprise customers to set default instructions for all users in their organization, ensuring a consistent experience across…

MAI-DS-R1 is now available on GitHub Models. MAI-DS-R1 is an updated version of DeepSeek-R1, refined by Microsoft AI. It handles complex queries more effectively, works across multiple languages, and provides…

Sharing a Copilot Chat used to mean screenshots and copy-paste. Now it’s as easy as sending a link. Shared conversations are now available in public preview in immersive chat on…

Codespaces will be undergoing global maintenance from 16:30 UTC on Monday, April 21 to 16:30 UTC on Tuesday, April 22. Maintenance will begin in our Europe, Asia, and Australia regions.…

Introducing AI-powered commit message generation with Copilot—available in the latest GitHub Desktop Beta. With a click of a new button in the commit message box, get your changes to upstream…

The latest AI models from Cohere, Command A and Embed 4, are now available on GitHub Models. Command A is a multilingual model designed for business-critical applications like retrieval-augmented generation…

Mistral Large is now deprecated in GitHub Models. Please transition to Mistral Large 24.11 to continue using the improved version with enhanced features. To learn more about GitHub Models, check…

OpenAI’s latest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, are now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models bringing next-generation problem-solving, structured reasoning, and coding intelligence directly into your development workflow. These…

You now have more choices when chatting with Copilot about images in VS Code, Visual Studio, and on the immersive mode on github.com. Starting today, you can use the vision…

When CodeQL scans repositories with Java and/or C# code that depend on packages in private registries—but don’t include those registry addresses in their Maven, Gradle, or NuGet configuration files—the analysis…

GitHub Copilot Chat is now generally available for Eclipse! If you’re an Eclipse user, you can take advantage of AI-powered assistance with both code completions and in-editor chat assistance today.…

We’re introducing new controls for automation workflows, enhancing security and flexibility for teams. Additionally, we’ve released updates to Actions runner controller designed to improve performance, customization, and compatibility with evolving…

CodeQL version 2.21.0 has been released and includes TypeScript 5.8 support, a new Java query to detect exposed Spring Boot actuators, and support for new JavaScript libraries. TypeScript 5.8 support…

On May 18, 2025, we’re deprecating the automatic watching of repositories and teams. We’re making this change in order to: Reduce notification noise: You’ll receive fewer unexpected notifications, especially when…