GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
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As previously announced, the download URLs for Copilot usage metrics reports have migrated from Azure Front Door domains to a stable, GitHub-owned custom domain. This change improves URL stability and…
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once.
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.25.4, which adds Swift 6.3.1 support, improves…
Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along with our Q4 2025 data release.
This integration is now generally available. Since entering public preview, we’ve heard valuable feedback from customers, and we’ve shipped follow-up improvements that bring artifact and runtime context closer to the…
We are migrating the download URLs for Copilot usage metrics reports from Azure Front Door domains to a stable, GitHub-owned custom domain. This change will improve URL stability and make…
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to our detection coverage, APIs, and workflows. These improvements strengthen our continued investment in the developer experience of our secret scanning features. Built…
Note: We’ve recently renamed Copilot coding agent to Copilot cloud agent. We will be updating our data schema for all existing coding agent fields to reflect this change in the…
Previous CLI metrics releases added a standalone totals_by_cli section to the Copilot usage metrics API with session counts, request counts, and token usage. That section reported CLI activity separately from…
In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Some dependency vulnerabilities require more than a version bump—they need code changes across your project. Now generally available, you can assign Dependabot alerts to AI coding agents, including Copilot, Claude,…
Copilot usage metrics now indicate which users have Copilot code review (CCR) activity, and whether that activity was active or passive. Enterprise and organization admins can see how users engage…
Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports. Organization admins can now see which individual users are active on…
The top-level Security tab across repositories, organizations, and enterprises has been renamed to Security & quality on github.com. This change restructures the navigation to colocate code quality findings alongside security…
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