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GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We’ve evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and consistent interface.

GRDevDay is taking place this Saturday, and with so many amazing developers together, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after party. Join @bkeepers and the rest of the…

We recently changed the Watcher behavior on GitHub. What used to be known as “Watching” is now “Starring”. Starring is basically a way to bookmark interesting repositories. Watching is a…

Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…

As part of the Mylyn connector announcement last week a new stand-alone Java library was released for accessing GitHub API v3. Below is a 5 line example showing how to…

One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…

Enterprise Teams is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. First announced in public preview last September, enterprise teams let enterprise admins define a group of users once at the…

This week, we’re rolling out two improvements to our delegated workflows for secret scanning. What’s changing Sort bypass and dismissal requests in the UI: You can now choose between ascending…

Issue fields are now available in public preview to all GitHub organizations on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. When you define typed metadata like Priority, Effort, or…

As announced in April 2026, GitHub is rolling out a new token format for GitHub App installation tokens. To help you validate your apps and workflows before the rollout reaches…

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21 enhances deployment efficiency, monitoring capabilities, code security, and policy management. Here are a few highlights in the 3.21 release: Organization custom properties are now generally…

You can now choose whether commit comments are enabled or disabled by default for repositories owned by your personal account. This makes it easier to manage commit comment behavior across…

Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can quietly accumulate large API bills. Here’s how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them.

GitHub repository rulesets now support two frequently requested features: adding individual users as bypass actors and renaming branches covered by organization rulesets. Add individual users as bypass actors You can…

Following the Copilot coding agent to Copilot cloud agent rename, the Copilot usage metrics API now includes a new used_copilot_cloud_agent field in user-level reports. This boolean field mirrors the existing…

You can now selectively enable GitHub Copilot cloud agent (CCA) access on a per-organization basis. Previously, enterprise admins and AI managers could only enable the agent everywhere, disable it everywhere,…

It’s now easier to configure Dependabot and code scanning for organizations that rely on multiple internal package feeds. Previously, organization-level settings only allowed a single private registry configuration per ecosystem…

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) exports from repository pages and new API endpoints are now asynchronous operations. Previously, navigating to a repository’s dependency graph page and clicking the Export SBOM…

Editor’s note (April 20, 2026): We updated this post to clarify in preview, VNET failover manual and not automated This month, GitHub Actions adds entrypoint and command overrides for service…

Repository admins can now disable comments on individual commits, a small but meaningful improvement for maintainers dealing with unwanted noise on old commits. A new “Commits” section in repository settings…

Learn how to integrate the Copilot SDK into a React Native app to generate AI-powered issue summaries, with production patterns for graceful degradation and caching.