04/2025

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 23, 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…

Alongside the launch of GPT-4.1 in GitHub Models, we’re introducing GPT-4.1-mini and GPT-4.1-nano—lightweight variants of OpenAI’s latest model. Designed for high performance with lower cost and latency, these models are…

You can now use the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN from GitHub Actions to authenticate requests to GitHub Models. This simplifies your workflows by integrating AI capabilities directly into your actions, eliminating the…

GitHub regularly updates the default pattern set for secret scanning with new patterns and upgrades of existing patterns, ensuring your repositories have comprehensive detection for different secret types. The following…

The Copilot extension for GitHub Models now requires the models:read permission in order to access GitHub Models APIs. Users will need to reauthorize the extension by accepting the new permission…

Now in public preview, Windows arm64 hosted runners are available for free in public repositories. This runner comes with a Windows 11 Desktop image, fully equipped with all the tooling…

OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4.1, is now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models, bringing OpenAI’s newest model to your coding workflow. This model outperforms GPT-4o across the board, with major…

The latest AI models from Meta, Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct and Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8, are now available on GitHub Models. Llama-4-Scout-17B is a 17B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) model optimized for tasks like summarization, personalization, and…

GitHub Codespaces has introduced a new Agentic AI feature—you can now open a Codespace running VSCode’s Copilot agent mode, directly from a GitHub issue. With a single click, you can…

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available to all GitHub Copilot customers. The latest Gemini model from Google is their most advanced model for complex tasks. It shows strong reasoning and…

DeepSeek-V3 is now deprecated in GitHub Models. Please transition to DeepSeek-V3-0324 to continue using the improved version with enhanced features. To learn more about GitHub Models, check out the docs.…

Starting May 30, 2025, CodeQL will no longer generate code scanning alerts for hardcoded secrets. Instead, we recommend using secret scanning to detect hardcoded secrets in your repositories, which has…

macOS 15 and Windows 2025 images are now generally available for all GitHub-hosted runners. You can use these images in your workflows on GitHub-hosted standard or larger runners. Get started…