07/2026

You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents…

The MCP protocol is going stateless on 28th July 2026, and the GitHub MCP Server supports the latest spec ahead of the official release. What’s changing The new stateless core…

Now when a GitHub Actions check fails on your pull request, you can ask Copilot coding agent to investigate and directly fix the problem from GitHub Mobile. From the failed…

You can now create multi-select fields in Projects and Issue fields so a single field can hold more than one value. Tag an item with everything it relates to (e.g.,…

Agent automations increasingly label, type, assign, and close issues for you. GitHub Issues now shows the reason behind each change and lets you review them before they’re applied, so you…

We’ve released a new Copilot metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners. This dashboard helps you tell a deeper Copilot impact story by sharing not just who is…

We want to give you advance notice of an upcoming security change that may affect GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) support bundle uploads. Beginning August 18, 2026, GitHub will start rejecting…

Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable…

You can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the…

Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users can now see how many AI credits they’ve used this billing cycle, even without an individual budget. Find this on your GitHub Copilot usage…

GitHub Code Quality is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team. It solves an emerging challenge for software development: AI accelerates code output, and Code Quality helps…

The Copilot usage metrics REST API now reports repository-level activity. Two new endpoints return a daily, per-repository breakdown of pull request activity for Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review.…

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports the GitHub Copilot app usage in the enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports. This gives enterprise and organization admins visibility into the…

Copilot code review now utilizes a firewall, custom setup steps, and independent runner configurations. It now reads custom instructions from the head branch to allow for easy testing and validation…

You can now select Fix with Copilot directly from Copilot code review pull request comments in GitHub Mobile. The button is available both on the pull request’s main view and…