Copilot on web expands conversation controls
We’ve made improvements to Copilot Chat on github.com that make it easier to use. These include easier access to your recent conversations in chat, the ability to minimize the chat…
GitHub billing in India now supports automatic recurring payments
Customers in India can now use eligible saved credit cards for automatic recurring payments on monthly and annual GitHub bills. This update uses a payment mandate, also known in the…
Custom thread subscriptions are being deprecated
Update (August 14, 2026): Pausing the custom thread subscriptions deprecation We’re pausing the planned deprecation of custom thread subscriptions. Your feedback highlighted how integral this feature is to many developers’…
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
This week’s updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions without losing context. GitHub Copilot…
Enterprises can now install third-party GitHub Apps
Enterprise owners can now install public GitHub Apps created outside their enterprise on their enterprise account. This allows third-party integrators to build apps for enterprise management scenarios. Enterprise installations grant…
Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes a “Potential return on investment” section that connects what you spend on Copilot to the pull request output you get back. What’s new Two…
Copilot code review effort levels are generally available
Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review are now generally available. They let you match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk of a…
Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
Since agent apps arrived on GitHub, teams have been able to run agents from partners like Claude and Codex directly in their GitHub workflows. The Copilot usage metrics API now…
“Relates to” issue relationship in public preview and multi-select fields is generally available
GitHub is making it easier to connect related work and manage multiple field values across issues and projects. Connect related issues The new “Relates to” issue relationship is available in…
Secret scanning coverage updates
This release expands secret scanning’s coverage with more secrets blocked by push protection, one new secret scanning partner, and richer metadata on alerts. Secret scanning partnership program Lovable Labs is…
GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have…
MCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys in enterprise managed…
Set pull request limits at the organization level
You can now set pull request limits at the organization level. Pull request limits let you define how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at…
Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have resumed rolling out Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing…
Customize code scanning default setup at scale
You can now apply your own configuration file to code scanning default setup, using the new github-codeql-config-file repository property. This gives you control over how CodeQL scans your code for…
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