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Starting September 25, 2026, GitHub will introduce a data retention policy for closed Dependabot security alerts. This policy gives you a clear commitment for how long your alert data stays…

Enterprise admins can now set a cost center user-level budget: one per-user AI credit budget on a cost center that applies to every individual in it. As membership changes, the…

Building on the AI adoption phase cohorts added to the Copilot usage metrics API, organization and enterprise reports now report the total number of pull requests merged by each adoption…

For a timely response to security incidents involving compromised accounts or stolen credentials, GitHub Enterprise owners can now use new “break-glass” capabilities to instantly revoke all credentials for a given…

Searching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@me on github.com/pulls will return your own…

GitHub Actions is resuming enforcement of version requirements for self-hosted runners on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. This change is part of a broader effort to rebuild…

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…

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…