What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
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.
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…
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
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.
Pull requests created by the github-actions[bot] are now able to run your CI/CD workflows with user approval. Requiring approval is a security measure to ensure generated code does not automatically…
GitHub Copilot CLI now has a unified, schema-driven home for configuration. The new /settings slash command combines the scattered commands like /theme, /streamer-mode, and /experimental with options that previously required…
Two new GitHub-hosted runner images for GitHub Actions are now available in public preview for all users, giving you early access to test your workflows on the latest platforms before…
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside…
Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning.
You can now use GitHub Agentic Workflows with GitHub Actions’s built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. This means that you no longer need to create and store a personal access token (PAT), eliminating the…
GitHub Discussions now has a first-class home in GitHub CLI through the new gh discussion command group. This means you can browse, create, and update discussions right where you already…
GitHub CLI now exposes issue types, parent and sub-issue relationships, and issue dependencies directly from the terminal. This means you can structure and track work without dropping into the browser…
We’ve improved the handoff experience between Copilot Chat and Copilot cloud agent on the web. We’ve also enabled new functionality which allows you to search and query past agent sessions…
Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence.
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
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