06/2026

The GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), so you can run agent sessions against your own model providers, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Anthropic, LM…

This update adds support for organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, lets you queue and steer messages in Copilot CLI sessions, introduces a new agent debug logs summary view, and…

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports how many AI credits each user consumed per day, derived from the same AI credits consumption data used in the usage-based billing API.…

We will deprecate Opus 4.6 (fast) across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on June 29th, 2026: Model Deprecation date…

MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash, Microsoft’s purpose‑built small coding model, is now available across additional GitHub Copilot surfaces. MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash can now be used in: Copilot CLI Copilot cloud agent GitHub Copilot app Copilot Chat…

Copilot code review now supports repository-level AGENTS.md files, and it’s easier to request a review from Copilot on draft pull requests with the Request button. These changes are all generally…

Duplicate issues are one of the biggest time sinks for maintainers: triaging the same bug filed multiple ways, closing duplicates, and linking back to the original. For large repositories, this…

Searching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@me on github.com/pulls will return your own…

You can now quickly jump between repositories without leaving your current page. The new repository switcher in the global navigation is generally available. Select the chevron next to the repository…

Custom images for GitHub-hosted runners are getting new capabilities that give you more flexibility over how you compose and manage your image-generation pipelines. You can now build custom images on…

Editor’s note (July 15, 2026): We updated this post to reflect a revised backport enforcement date. Enforcement for backported versions of actions/checkout has been moved from July 16, 2026 to…

Workflow execution protections are now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise, organizations, and repositories. This new capability lets enterprise administrators define an allow list that controls who can trigger GitHub…

When you generate release notes for a new release, the generated notes include a list of pull requests merged since the last release. For more information about automatically generating release…

Explore repository content from your terminal without cloning by using two new commands: gh repo read-file and gh repo read-dir. What you can do Use gh repo read-file to read…

Since our last pattern update, we’ve expanded secret scanning’s detection coverage with new partners, more patterns blocked by push protection by default, additional validity checks, and richer metadata for leaked…