04/2025

Actions Runner Controller (ARC) is a Kubernetes operator that automates the deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management of self-hosted actions runners within a Kubernetes cluster. It enables dynamic provisioning of runners…

Mistral Small is now deprecated in GitHub Models. Please transition to Mistral Small 3.1 to continue using the improved version with enhanced features. To learn more about GitHub Models, check…

We previously announced that GitHub tasklists will be retired on April 30th. At this point, the ability to reference code scanning alerts from tasklists will be deprecated as well. This…

You can now revoke an exposed GitHub personal access token (PAT) you found outside of repositories, even if it’s not yours, to help quickly limit the impact of the exposure…

To improve reliability and reduce review assignment conflicts, we’re removing the Dependabot reviewers configuration option on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. We’re retiring this dependabot.yml configuration option because the functionality overlaps…

This new improvement allows users to quickly identify dependencies with the has:patch filter using the Dependabot REST API. This streamlines the process of addressing vulnerabilities and staying up-to-date. To learn…

Copilot Edits is now generally available in JetBrains IDEs. This powerful feature lets you refactor, optimize, and iterate on your code faster—across one or multiple files—all from within Copilot Chat.…

You can now use the user prompt improvement feature in the GitHub Models playground. This new feature helps transform vague or broad prompts into clearer, more specific, and optimized ones…

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released version 2.21.1 of CodeQL. Here’s what’s new and…

Linking a pull request to an issue makes it easy for collaborators to see that work for the issue is underway. Today, when a linked pull request is merged, the…

GitHub Copilot code review now supports C, C++, Kotlin, Swift, and several other popular languages. With this update, you can receive AI-powered review suggestions for even more code in your…

For customers affected by ongoing grace periods, GitHub will automatically update the enable for new repositories security configuration setting for customers not opted out. This change helps you avoid unexpected…

GitHub code scanning now offers enhanced security protection for your GitHub Actions workflow files through CodeQL analysis, which is now generally available. This feature enables you to identify and remediate…

Dependabot users can now schedule custom update frequencies by using cron expressions in schedule.interval in the Dependabot configuration file. This enhances the predefined intervals (daily, weekly, and monthly) and provides…

This is a follow-up to our previous announcement about npm replication APIs. The new replication feed APIs are now live. While the legacy feeds will remain available—with limitations and scheduled…