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Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here’s what we learned as we built it.

Copilot code review now supports repository-level AGENTS.md files, and it’s easier to request a review from Copilot on draft pull requests with the Request button. These changes are all generally…

Duplicate issues are one of the biggest time sinks for maintainers: triaging the same bug filed multiple ways, closing duplicates, and linking back to the original. For large repositories, this…

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

Editor’s note (July 15, 2026): We updated this post to reflect a revised backport enforcement date. Enforcement for backported versions of actions/checkout has been moved from July 16, 2026 to…

Workflow execution protections are now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise, organizations, and repositories. This new capability lets enterprise administrators define an allow list that controls who can trigger GitHub…

How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.

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…

Models from external providers configured by enterprise admins are now available in the /model picker in Copilot CLI, giving enterprise developers more flexibility and allowing enterprise admins to more easily…

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.

More than 10,000 enterprises have used the GitHub Code Quality public preview to detect maintainability and reliability issues, enforce quality gates, and track code coverage. On July 20, 2026, Code…

Organization administrators can now enable or disable GitHub Code Quality across all repositories in their organization with a single toggle, instead of configuring each repository individually. What’s new A new…

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.

Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.

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…

In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.