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A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
The MCP protocol is going stateless on 28th July 2026, and the GitHub MCP Server supports the latest spec ahead of the official release. What’s changing The new stateless core…
Agent automations increasingly label, type, assign, and close issues for you. GitHub Issues now shows the reason behind each change and lets you review them before they’re applied, so you…
Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks.
You can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the…
GitHub Code Quality is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team. It solves an emerging challenge for software development: AI accelerates code output, and Code Quality helps…
GitHub code scanning now surfaces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests, expanding vulnerability coverage to languages and frameworks not currently supported by CodeQL. These detections help teams identify and…
You can now see the number of active committers on repositories using GitHub Code Quality across your enterprise, giving you an estimate of your Code Quality license cost before it…
To make secret scanning easier to understand, we’re updating the names we use for our detector types to better reflect how each one finds secrets. This is a naming change…
Agentic autofix is now in public preview for all code scanning alerts. It remediates alerts generated by CodeQL and third-party scanning tools by working across your codebase the way a…
The refreshed pull requests dashboard is now generally available at github.com/pulls. It gives you a single home to track, prioritize, and act on the pull requests that need your attention,…
Organizations can now mandate where GitHub Copilot sends OpenTelemetry (OTel) data, so telemetry flows to an approved collector without each developer setting OTEL_* environment variables. The configuration is delivered through…
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports two additional code-review velocity metrics for each AI adoption phase, extending the adoption phase cohorts fields available in the enterprise and organization reports.…
This update brings Codex as a new agent provider in public preview, expands the Customizations editor with Hooks support and richer MCP server management, and introduces custom model support configured…
Enterprise admins can now create cost center user-level budgets directly in the billing UI where you manage cost centers and budgets. This feature is available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. This…
We will deprecate Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on July 31st,…
You can now cap how much of your enterprise’s monthly included AI credits a cost center can use. This is available through the REST API today. Management in the cost…
Issue fields are now generally available for all GitHub organizations on Free, Team, Enterprise, and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency plans and will ship in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.23.…
Enterprise administrators can now set model to auto in the enterprise managed-settings.json to make Copilot auto model selection the default for new conversations. Add auto to .github-private/.github/copilot/managed-settings.json in your source…
In June, we announced that we are retiring GitHub Models and closed it to new customers. We’re now sharing the timeline for the next step: GitHub Models will be fully…
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