06/2025

Last month, we launched GitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview, allowing users with Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise to delegate tasks to Copilot to work on in the background.…

Stricter requirements are being enforced for application authentication and cross-organization access

The secret scanning REST API now returns additional metadata to help you triage alerts more effectively. The new first_location_detected object provides structured location data for the first detected instance of…

Dependabot now supports Gradle dependency lockfiles! What’s new Dependabot can now read and update gradle.lockfile in addition to build.gradle. This feature is generally available and enabled by default; no additional…

We’ve introduced a new Dependabot metrics section in the Security tab, available at the organization level. This update helps application security managers cut through the noise and focus on remediating…

We’ve launched an enhanced ruleset selection experience for organization and enterprise rulesets, simplifying the process of finding and targeting the right repositories. Teams and Enterprise plan users can now leverage…

We’ve released support for enforcing GitHub Artifact Attestations in OPA Gatekeeper, an open source admission controller for Kubernetes, in public preview. With this release, you can write and enforce policies…

The ability to allow enterprise administrators to see and manage repositories in the user namespace of Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) is now generally available. This feature set increases visibility of…

GitHub is consolidating Dependabot’s compute platform to GitHub Actions, and jobs that generate pull requests will be run as GitHub Actions workflows. This allows Dependabot to leverage GitHub Actions infrastructure,…

GitHub Copilot will deprecate the following models in github.com/copilot and Copilot IDE model pickers according to the schedule below: Model Deprecation Date Suggested Alternative OpenAI GPT-4.5 2025-07-07 OpenAI GPT-4.1 OpenAI…

Users can now request a summarized billing usage report for a time frame of up to one year. This new summarized report option generates a smaller report, which allows customers…

You can now add issues and pull requests as context in Copilot Spaces. Create a space and simply paste in the URL—the space will pull in the latest title, body,…

GitHub Actions has expanded the number of supported Azure private networking regions available to customers, with the following new additions: – Canada East – Canada Central – Japan West –…

Last month, we launched GitHub Copilot coding agent (Public Preview), allowing users with Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise to delegate tasks to Copilot to work on in the background. Users…

Monthly premium request allowances for paid GitHub Copilot users are now in effect. What’s changed: The monthly allowance of premium requests per user for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise…