VS Code moved to weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.111 through v1.115, the releases we shipped throughout March and early April 2026. The highlights include Autopilot for fully…
You can now use runtime context from Dynatrace to prioritize GitHub Advanced Security alerts based on deployed artifacts and runtime risk in your Kubernetes environment. When you connect Dynatrace to…
GitHub Copilot CLI now lets you connect your own model provider or run fully local models instead of using GitHub-hosted model routing. This means you can use the models and…
Some dependency vulnerabilities require more than a version bump—they need code changes across your project. You can now assign Dependabot alerts to AI coding agents, including Copilot, Claude, and Codex,…
Dependabot now supports Nix flakes. Add nix as a package ecosystem in your dependabot.yml file. Dependabot will then monitor your flake.lock inputs and open pull requests when newer commits are…
GitHub code scanning alerts on pull requests are now easier to address with bulk actions. You can now apply fixes for code scanning alerts in the Files changed tab by…
npm trusted publishing now supports CircleCI as an OIDC provider, joining GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD. Maintainers publishing from CircleCI workflows can now eliminate stored credentials entirely and authenticate directly…
Copilot usage metrics now indicate which users have Copilot code review (CCR) activity, and whether that activity was active or passive. Enterprise and organization admins can see how users engage…
Each time Copilot cloud agent works on a task, it starts a new development environment powered by GitHub Actions. By default, this runs on a standard GitHub-hosted runner, but teams…
Editor’s note (April 15, 2026): We updated this post to include information about the deprecation of GPT-5.1. We have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot…
Copilot cloud agent includes a built-in agent firewall to control Copilot’s internet access and help protect against prompt injection and data exfiltration. Until now, the firewall was configured at the…
Copilot cloud agent now signs every commit it makes. Signed commits appear as Verified on GitHub, giving you confidence that the commit was genuinely made by the agent and hasn’t…
The GitHub Copilot SDK is now available in public preview. This gives you the building blocks to embed Copilot’s agentic capabilities directly into your own applications, workflows, and platform services.…
Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports. Organization admins can now see which individual users are active on…
Editor’s note (April 20, 2026): We updated this post to clarify in preview, VNET failover manual and not automated This month, GitHub Actions adds entrypoint and command overrides for service…
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