05/2026

To help you tell a deeper Copilot adoption story—not just who is active, but how they’re using Copilot—the Copilot usage metrics API now classifies each engaged user into an AI…

Enterprise administrators and billing managers can now set hard budget limits for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) SKUs, preventing teams from exceeding their allocated license budgets. Previously, license-based products like GHAS…

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.25.5, which includes accuracy improvements across C/C++,…

Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic’s latest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Opus 4.8 demonstrates a clear step forward in code understanding and generation across…

Copilot Memory now includes improved memory deletion, adds a repository-level off switch, and brings further memory controls into the Copilot CLI. Copilot Memory is in public preview and available to…

You can now programmatically enable and configure GitHub Code Quality on individual repositories using the new Repository Enablement API, available today in public preview. Two new endpoints are now available:…

Enterprise owners now have granular control over which GitHub Copilot models are available to each organization. With targeted model rules, you can allow specific models for specific organizations instead of…

Dependabot now supports sbt. Add sbt as a package ecosystem in your dependabot.yml file. Dependabot will then monitor your build.sbt inputs and open pull requests when newer commits are available…

This week, we’re rolling out two improvements to our delegated workflows for secret scanning. What’s changing Sort bypass and dismissal requests in the UI: You can now choose between ascending…

Starting today, new sign-ups for GitHub Classroom are no longer available as we transition to partner solutions. If you already have a GitHub Classroom account or existing classrooms, you can…

Code coverage metrics are now in public preview for all GitHub Code Quality users on github.com. You can now see an aggregate percent of code covered directly on pull requests,…

Today we’re shipping two updates focused on supply-chain security for npm: Staged publishing is generally available. New –allow-* install source flags (–allow-file, –allow-remote, –allow-directory) complement the existing –allow-git flag. Both…

Following our previous updates, GitHub Copilot for Eclipse is open source, with the code available on GitHub under the MIT license. This marks an important milestone for GitHub Copilot in…

Issue fields are now available in public preview to all GitHub organizations on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. When you define typed metadata like Priority, Effort, or…

As previously announced, the download URLs for Copilot usage metrics reports have migrated from Azure Front Door domains to a stable, GitHub-owned custom domain. This change improves URL stability and…