08/2025

As of August 6, 2025, the GPT-4o model has been officially deprecated in Copilot Chat and is no longer available. GPT-4.1 is now the recommended model and offers improved performance…

This week we’ve focused on making Spark more reliable and responsive when building your apps. Enhanced reliability We’ve resolved several issues that were interrupting your workflow: Fixed errors that prevented…

You can delegate tasks to GitHub Copilot coding agent that it will work on in the background. Copilot opens a pull request, pushes its changes, and then requests a review.…

GitHub continually updates the default pattern set for secret scanning with new patterns and upgrades to existing patterns, helping ensure your repositories have comprehensive detection for different secret types. The…

Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Opus 4.1, is now available in GitHub Copilot. Claude Opus 4.1 is the successor to Claude Opus 4. As Anthropic’s most capable model, it supports extended…

You can now use the REST API to list and update push protection configurations for secret scanning patterns at the enterprise and organization levels. Push protection helps prevent secrets from…

We are deprecating the GPU virtual machine type offering in Codespaces by August 29, 2025, following the upcoming retirement of NCv3-series Azure Virtual Machines on September 30, 2025. What does…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency users with a paid GitHub Copilot plan will now be billed for premium request usage. What’s changed: GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency users…