Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub
GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.
GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.
You can now keep your AI agent skills, prompts, and instructions up to date with Dependabot version updates for Agent Package Manager (APM). Dependabot opens pull requests to update supported…
Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone.
Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world.
See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.
Work doesn’t always fit in a single repository or session. A feature can span several repositories. A launch plan can pull in specs, designs, and assets without touching a repository…
You can now work through your repository’s GitHub code scanning alerts without leaving the GitHub Copilot app. The new GitHub security extension, now in public preview, lets you find the…
Agents should understand more than your codebase—they should understand how your team works. Your preferences, repository conventions, skills, and custom instructions guide how changes should be made, while code in…
Shared Copilot Automations are rolling out, enabling teams to build and maintain AI-powered workflows together. With Copilot Automations, you can combine prompts, triggers, and tools to design workflows around the…
Copilot is now one connected experience in the cloud. Start a cloud task wherever you are, on github.com, GitHub Mobile, the Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, VS Code, or right…
You can now use AI Scan to find vulnerabilities across your whole repository, not just in pull request changes. It covers languages and frameworks that CodeQL doesn’t support and finds…
Code scanning can now detect AI applications and agent vulnerabilities, including indirect prompt injection (XPIA), sensitive information disclosure, excessive agency, and other AI-specific risks as coverage expands. Scans automatically run…
GitHub public monitoring alerts enterprises when their secrets are publicly exposed anywhere on GitHub, helping teams respond quickly to leaks wherever they happen. It’s now generally available to enterprises with…
With Copilot Automations, you can combine prompts, triggers, and tools to design workflows around the way your team works. Triggers define when your automation runs (e.g., “every day at 9am”…
Copilot Automations can now learn from their outcomes and propose improvements to themselves, helping them produce better results over time. It’s easy to create an automation, but harder to build…
Copilot Automations in Visual Studio Code can now run in the cloud. You can create and manage cloud automations from the Agents window without leaving your editor. With Copilot Automations,…
GitHub Copilot code review now offers its most thorough review and can approve your pull request when it’s ready to merge. The new Max review effort level is now in…
You can now use GitHub Actions workflow dependency lockfiles in general availability on GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, Team, and Free plans. Lockfiles let you keep…
The new GitHub app in Teams brings notifications and Copilot together, helping teams turn issues into fixes and ship code faster without leaving the conversation. Get notified in channels, group…
Between June 1 and June 13, 2026, some Enterprise Managed User accounts that were deprovisioned through SCIM were incorrectly deleted instead of being suspended and obfuscated as expected. As a…
September 2026 brought deeper visibility into your work: explore pull requests without leaving chat, bring the AI model your team trusts, and fix vulnerable packages the moment Visual Studio flags…
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