You can now track and manage Copilot coding agent without leaving Visual Studio Code. Everything you need now lives in one streamlined, centralized mission control view. View session logs directly…
You can now craft targeted custom instructions for Copilot code review and Copilot coding agent. The new excludeAgent property for .instructions.md custom instructions gives you exact control over when specific…
To reduce the risk of cryptographic credentials being exposed in your repositories, secret scanning now detects additional private key formats and has upgraded existing private key detectors. In addition, Sentry…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now includes an Auto option you can select from the model picker where Copilot picks the model for you. Auto is now available all Copilot…
We have deprecated Claude Sonnet 3.5 across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) as of today, November 10th 2025. As…
Visual Studio subscriptions for both subscription and usage-based GitHub Enterprise now support data residency. This allows you to access GitHub Enterprise features through your Visual Studio subscription while maintaining compliance…
Raptor mini, a new experimental model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot to Pro, Pro+, and Free plans in Visual Studio Code. You’ll be able to select the model…
To reduce unwanted noise and help you focus on what matters most, we’re removing notifications generated from mentions in commit messages. Previously, mentioning a user or team in a commit…
GitHub is updating how GitHub Actions’ pull_request_target and environment branch protection rules are evaluated for pull-request-related events. These changes will take effect on 12/8/2025. They aim to reduce security critical…
Editor’s note (November 18, 2025): We’ve updated this post to clarify impact on enterprises. Following the previous announcement notice, we retired GraphQL Explorer. Who this affects Customers who use the…
Applying suggested changes in batch, new options for collapsing parts of the page, and more in this update of the new pull request “Files changed” page public preview. 📝 Batch…
Increased limits for reusable workflows You can now use up to 10 nested reusable workflows and call up to 50 workflows in total from a given workflow run. The previous…
We’ve improved the GitHub Projects onboarding flow to help you get started faster, with options to connect and import items from a repository, set a default repository for new issues,…
We’ve retired the legacy Copilot usage report CSV that was previously available to organization administrators under Copilot access settings. Three months ago, the legacy usage report was deprecated in favor…
We’ve added a new enterprise: qualifier to GitHub code search, making it easier to search across all organizations in your enterprise. Previously, searching across multiple organizations required manually combining many…
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