Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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 view and steer cloud agent sessions directly from issues and projects, giving you better visibility into agent activity without leaving your workflow. What’s new Session pill on…
Copilot Business and Enterprise users can now use bring your own language model key (BYOK) in Visual Studio Code. BYOK lets teams reuse their API keys to access models from…
The Microsoft C++ Language Server is now available in public preview for the Copilot CLI. Powered by the same IntelliSense engine used in Visual Studio and VS Code, it extends…
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.
Agent skills are reshaping how developers work with AI coding agents. Today we’re launching gh skill, a new command in the GitHub CLI that makes it easy to discover, install,…
We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead.
Artifact and deployment context now appears in two new places: repository properties and security alert pages. Repository properties: deployable and deployed Two new built-in repository properties—deployable and deployed—are now available.…
Learn to find and exploit real-world agentic AI vulnerabilities through five progressive challenges in this free, open source game that over 10,000 developers have already used to sharpen their security skills.
We’ve updated the GitHub Code Quality experience to make it easier to navigate and triage findings across your repository. GitHub Code Quality standard findings help you detect potential reliability and…
Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.
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…
VS Code moved to weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.111 through v1.115, the releases we shipped throughout March and early April 2026. The highlights include Autopilot for fully…
GitHub Copilot CLI now lets you connect your own model provider or run fully local models instead of using GitHub-hosted model routing. This means you can use the models and…
Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here’s what I learned about working better with coding agents.
A public preview of the refreshed pull requests dashboard is now available at github.com/pulls, introducing a new pull request inbox and saved views so you can organize and prioritize the…
Reviewed advisories hit a four-year low, malware advisories surged, and CNA publishing grew—here’s what changed and what it means for your triage and response.
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