Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
Since our last pattern update, we’ve expanded secret scanning’s detection coverage with new partners, more patterns blocked by push protection by default, additional validity checks, and richer metadata for leaked…
We’re adding our first governance capability to the enterprise-managed settings configuration. Enterprise administrators can now set disableBypassPermissionsMode to “disable” in the enterprise-managed settings.json to prevent GitHub Copilot CLI and VS…
Maintainers of open source repositories are dealing with an ever-growing volume of pull requests, including repeated low-quality or drive-by contributions that can slow triage and overwhelm review queues. To help…
We’re reopening sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans gradually over the next couple of weeks for new subscribers. If you’ve been waiting to get started with…
The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s the desktop home for agent-driven development, built natively on GitHub. Download the GitHub Copilot app to…
We are retiring GitHub Models. As a first step, new customers can no longer use it. If your organization or enterprise have not previously used GitHub Models, you won’t see…
Copilot usage metrics reports now draw on server-side telemetry in addition to client signals, so more of your active Copilot users show up in reports. Enterprise usage reports returned by…
A new repository-level dataset, published on GitHub under CC0-1.0, helps researchers and developers discover multilingual developer content across READMEs, issues, and pull requests.
With new organization runner controls, Copilot content exclusion support, and the removal of the character limit on repository custom instructions, Copilot code review is now easier to tailor to your…
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…
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside…
We’ve improved the handoff experience between Copilot Chat and Copilot cloud agent on the web. We’ve also enabled new functionality which allows you to search and query past agent sessions…
You can now run a security review on your code changes directly from GitHub Copilot CLI. The new /security-review slash command is shipping as an experimental feature in public preview,…
Dependabot now supports Deno. This applies to version updates, not security updates. Get started Add a Deno entry to your .github/dependabot.yml file, and Dependabot will start opening pull requests on…
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
Editor’s Note (July 1, 2026): Effective today, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is now re-enabled and generally available in GitHub Copilot. Editor’s Note (June 12, 2026): Following Anthropic’s announcement, effective today,…
As of today, June 5, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions). Note…
Last month we launched a public preview with Copilot CLI that allows enterprise administrators the ability to configure and distribute plugins to GitHub Copilot CLI users across their enterprise. VS…
GitHub’s expanded billing APIs to programmatically manage budgets, track usage, and access cost center data are now generally available. Manage budgets via APIs You can now manage the full lifecycle…
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