GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases
This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131, shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, and navigate VS Code. They also…
This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131, shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, and navigate VS Code. They also…
Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously announced in public preview, these capabilities…
Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here’s how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project.
Explore the changes we’ve shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact.
The GitHub Advisory Database now ingests malware advisories from the OpenSSF malicious-packages repository, significantly expanding the breadth of malware data available to you through Dependabot alerts. What changed With this…
Recent supply chain attacks use compromised GitHub credentials to push malicious GitHub Actions workflows that steal CI/CD credentials and carry out additional attacks. To help protect public repositories from these…
This update brings more control and clarity to your GitHub Copilot for JetBrains workflows. You can now connect MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows, tune telemetry and…
You can now govern the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent with enterprise managed settings, the same centrally managed policies you use to control Copilot across your enterprise. With…
New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow.
You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents…
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…
Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it.
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…
Copilot code review now utilizes a firewall, custom setup steps, and independent runner configurations. It now reads custom instructions from the head branch to allow for easy testing and validation…
You can now build and test your Apple applications against Xcode 27 on GitHub-hosted macOS runners. This is now available in public preview. With early access to the latest Xcode…
New to GitHub? This beginner’s guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub.
June 2026 is about visibility and trust with a clearer view of your GitHub Copilot usage, a new trust layer for MCP servers, and the first C++ scenarios for the…
This update brings major advances in customization and model provider flexibility to all tiers of GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs. With richer plugin and provider experiences, improved conversational interactions, and…
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…
Starting today, security teams can create, edit, and manage secret scanning custom patterns with the REST API. What’s new The following endpoints are generally available: GET …/secret-scanning/custom-patterns list patterns POST…
How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
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