GitHub availability report: April 2026
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The GitHub Copilot app is now in technical preview. It’s a GitHub-native desktop experience to start agentic development from the work in front of you, keep it isolated, steer it…
Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users can programmatically start Copilot cloud agent tasks with the new Agent tasks REST API, available in public preview. Copilot cloud agent works in the…
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Dependabot can now access internal repositories hosted in other organizations within your enterprise. Consider the situation where you have a dependency hosted in an internal GitHub repository. This repository is…
To help you understand the activity generated by Copilot code review users, the Copilot usage metrics API now breaks down Copilot code review suggestions by comment type. A new copilot_suggestions_by_comment_type…
Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM) is now available in public preview. ELM gives enterprise administrators a new way to migrate repositories from GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with…
VS Code moved to weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.116 through v1.119, the releases we shipped throughout April and early May 2026. Copilot can now search by meaning…
GitHub secret scanning in the GitHub MCP (Model Context Protocol) server is now generally available. When you use an MCP-compatible AI coding agent or IDE (like GitHub Copilot CLI or…
The GitHub MCP Server can now scan your code changes for vulnerable dependencies before you commit or open a pull request. You’ll catch known vulnerabilities while you write code with…
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The April 2026 update to Visual Studio centers on agentic workflows: cloud agent sessions launch directly from the IDE, custom agents gain user-level support, and a new Debugger agent validates…
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Copilot cloud agent now starts up over 20% faster, thanks to optimized runner environments built with GitHub Actions custom images. When you assign an issue to Copilot, start a task…
Developers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it…
Since our last update, we’ve continued to invest in making the GitHub Copilot cloud agent for Jira integration more powerful and customizable. These improvements give teams greater control over how…
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