GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright.
Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright.
GitHub now durably records the authenticated user who pushed each commit and surfaces that pusher identity in the UI and API alongside the existing author and committer fields. Commit author…
You can now select Anonymous as the authentication method for an organization-level private registry. Use it for registries that Dependabot can reach without credentials, such as an internal package mirror…
This update brings more control over default models and MCP server in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also makes diagnostics easier to address, improves chat navigation and account controls, and…
This release adds new billing and license controls for Copilot code review admins: Billing: Organization owners can bill Copilot code reviews from members with a Copilot license to the organization’s…
Users with the triage role or higher in a repository can now archive and unarchive pull requests. Previously, archiving was limited to repository administrators, requiring trusted triagers to hand routine…
Maintainers are seeing more low-quality contributions in their repositories and need better ways to manage them. You can now configure pull request limits to also include draft pull requests. Previously,…
Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.
Secret protection should keep pace with the way you build software, whether you write code yourself or work with an AI agent. With our new purpose-built model, we’re bringing context-aware…
We’re rebuilding GitHub’s Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.
GitHub stacked pull requests are now generally available. Break large changes into smaller, focused pull requests that you can review independently and merge together. Since the feature went into public…
Organization and enterprise administrators can now see AI Scan for pull requests enablement status in the security overview coverage view. The code scanning summary shows enabled and not enabled repository…
Secret scanning now detects new secret types from Lovable Labs, Pydantic Services Inc., and Supabase. New secret scanning partner The following provider joined the secret scanning partnership program. When one…
We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics.
The staged rollout of the stateless GitHub App installation token format, which began on April 27, 2026, is complete. By default, all newly minted GitHub App installation tokens will be…
You can now request a GitHub Copilot code review through the REST and GraphQL APIs and set the review effort level for each request. Balanced is also now the default…
Unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations now expire 48 hours after creation and can no longer authorize publishing. This limits the risk of trusting a repository or project name that changes…
You can now read more of the GitHub Advisory Database directly from the GraphQL API without falling back to the REST API. The SecurityAdvisory object gained five new fields: cveId:…
Open source maintainers are receiving more low-quality and automated vulnerability reports, which can bury the reports that matter. Rate limits cap how many new reports a single account can submit…
Private vulnerability reports can now use a structured form that asks reporters for the details you need to assess a vulnerability, including a reproducible proof of concept. A single free-text…
The macOS 14 runner image will be retired on November 2, 2026. To raise awareness of the upcoming removal, jobs using macOS 14 will temporarily fail during the following scheduled…
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