How we’re making GitHub Copilot smarter with fewer tools
We’re using embedding-guided tool routing, adaptive clustering, and a streamlined 13-tool core to deliver faster experience in VS Code.
We’re using embedding-guided tool routing, adaptive clustering, and a streamlined 13-tool core to deliver faster experience in VS Code.
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Gemini 3 Pro, Google’s latest frontier model, is now rolling out and will be available in GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+ Business, and Enterprise subscriptions. Rollout will be gradual. Check back…
GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse now includes an Auto option that selects the model on your behalf. Choose Auto from the model picker in Copilot Chat. This…
GitHub now makes it easier for teams to track, prioritize, and remediate security risks that matter by connecting code, build artifacts, and production context. Here’s what’s shipped and how you…
We’ve made a key improvement to the enterprise licensing CSV export to help enterprises better track license consumption of outside collaborators across organizations. What’s new? – Outside collaborators are now…
Organization owners can now better control which users are allowed to install GitHub Apps across their repositories with a new setting, available in public preview. Previously, any user with admin…
GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini—the full suite of OpenAI’s latest 5.1-series models—are now rolling out in public preview in GitHub Copilot. Availability in GitHub Copilot OpenAI GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini will…
You can now track and manage Copilot coding agent without leaving Visual Studio Code. Everything you need now lives in one streamlined, centralized mission control view. View session logs directly…
You can now craft targeted custom instructions for Copilot code review and Copilot coding agent. The new excludeAgent property for .instructions.md custom instructions gives you exact control over when specific…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now includes an Auto option you can select from the model picker where Copilot picks the model for you. Auto is now available all Copilot…
We have deprecated Claude Sonnet 3.5 across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) as of today, November 10th 2025. As…
Raptor mini, a new experimental model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot to Pro, Pro+, and Free plans in Visual Studio Code. You’ll be able to select the model…
To reduce unwanted noise and help you focus on what matters most, we’re removing notifications generated from mentions in commit messages. Previously, mentioning a user or team in a commit…
GitHub is updating how GitHub Actions’ pull_request_target and environment branch protection rules are evaluated for pull-request-related events. These changes will take effect on 12/8/2025. They aim to reduce security critical…
Editor’s note (November 18, 2025): We’ve updated this post to clarify impact on enterprises. Following the previous announcement notice, we retired GraphQL Explorer. Who this affects Customers who use the…
Increased limits for reusable workflows You can now use up to 10 nested reusable workflows and call up to 50 workflows in total from a given workflow run. The previous…
We’ve improved the GitHub Projects onboarding flow to help you get started faster, with options to connect and import items from a repository, set a default repository for new issues,…
TypeScript just became the most-used language on GitHub. Here’s why, according to its creator.
Editor’s note (November 5, 2025): We’ve updated this post to explicitly clarify that the affected tokens are npm tokens. Today marks another milestone in our ongoing effort to strengthen npm’s…
You can now require approvals from specific teams to merge changes into protected branches based on files and folders, giving you more control over who approves changes into specific branches.…
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