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GitHub changelog, platform updates, and Copilot coding-assistant releases. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 199 GitHub releases · Updated
- GitHub Changelog aigapreviewengineer ·
GitHub Copilot for Jira reaches General Availability
GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available after a public preview that began in March 2026. This release includes real-time progress monitoring within Jira issues and post-session steering for agents to refine draft pull requests, streamlining the development workflow. Onboarding has also been simplified, requiring fewer configuration steps to connect GitHub organizations and repositories. The update is available via the Atlassian Marketplace for existing and new users.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog securitypreviewengineer ·
GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code restrict plugin installs
Enterprises can now control which plugins users can install in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code via new enterprise-managed settings. This feature, currently in public preview, helps enforce client governance by allowing plugins only from explicitly defined marketplaces. This applies to users licensed through Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise accounts.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog aiengineer ·
Copilot Code Review: Deeper Analysis and Efficiency Gains
Copilot code review now leverages built-in CLI file exploration tools for improved cost efficiency without workflow changes. Users in the Medium analysis depth public preview gain new configurability and visibility options, including attribution in PR comments and organization-level default level settings. These enhancements reduce review costs by approximately 20% while maintaining review quality, benefiting developers and architects using Copilot for code reviews.
feature patch - GitHub Changelog infragaengineer ·
GitHub Actions: More Control Over Hosted Runners
GitHub Actions now offers organizations enhanced control over their hosted runners. Administrators can disable default runner labels and manage macOS runners through groups, improving security and capacity management. This feature is available for Team and Enterprise plans, providing granular control over runner access and concurrency.
feature - GitHub Changelog governancepreviewengineer ·
GitHub Issues adds saved views, Projects gets adjustable row heights
GitHub Issues now supports saved views, enabling teams to create and share filtered lists of issues for easier organization and access. This feature also integrates GitHub Projects more closely, with saved views appearing in a new sidebar. Additionally, Projects table layouts now offer adjustable row heights, allowing users to choose between Single, Medium, Tall, or Extra Tall to accommodate more information. These updates aim to improve issue management and project planning workflows.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog infragaengineer ·
GitHub Actions supports running workflow steps in parallel
GitHub Actions now supports running workflow steps concurrently using the `background` keyword, allowing steps to execute in parallel while maintaining distinct logs. This enhancement enables more efficient job execution by handling patterns like parallel builds or starting background services without interleaved logs. Previously, developers relied on shell backgrounding which complicated log management. This feature is available now with new keywords `background`, `wait`, `wait-all`, and `cancel`.
feature - GitHub Changelog securityinfraengineer ·
npm adds preventive account protection for high-impact accounts
npm has introduced a new preventive safeguard for accounts managing critical packages, adding a 72-hour read-only state after detecting sensitive changes like email updates or 2FA recovery code usage. This measure aims to block account-takeover attacks that have been exploited in recent supply chain incidents, ensuring package availability and user security.
feature security - GitHub Changelog governanceawsengineer ·
GitHub Cost Centers Now Support Enterprise Teams
GitHub Enterprise Cloud now allows enterprise teams to be added as resources within cost centers for improved cost attribution. This feature automatically updates attribution as team membership changes via SCIM, aligning billing with organizational structure. Enterprise owners and billing managers can access this in Billing and licensing settings to manage budgets and spending caps by group.
feature - GitHub Changelog securitygovernanceengineer ·
GitHub Enterprise: Self-service credential revocation for incident response
GitHub Enterprise owners can now instantly revoke all credentials for a given user to speed up incident response. This feature allows enterprise owners and specific members to revoke SSO authorizations and delete user tokens/SSH keys programmatically or through a new self-service portal for individual users. Enterprise members can also manage their own credentials via a new self-service experience. The changes aim to improve security incident response times and provide better control over enterprise credentials.
feature security - GitHub Changelog aigaengineereducation ·
Copilot Free/Student Plans Default to Auto Model Selection
GitHub Copilot's Free and Student plans now default to automatic model selection, simplifying the user experience by dynamically choosing the best model for tasks. This change provides access to multiple model families while removing manual choice and the 'Preview' label for Microsoft-released models. Users can find more details in the documentation, and discussions are available on the GitHub Community.
feature patch - GitHub Changelog aiazureengineer ·
GitHub Copilot App Adds Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Support
The GitHub Copilot app now supports BYOK, allowing users to connect their own model providers like Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted options. This feature enhances flexibility by enabling users to choose models based on session needs while keeping traffic within their own cloud tenants. BYOK is available for Copilot Business and Enterprise users who have the Copilot CLI enabled.
feature - GitHub Changelog securityengineer ·
GitHub Secret Scanning adds metadata for Replicate secrets
GitHub's Secret Scanning now includes extended metadata for detected Replicate API tokens. This enhancement provides richer context about leaked credentials, aiding security analysis. The feature is available now and supports Replicate API tokens.
patch - GitHub Changelog securitypreviewengineer ·
GitHub Code Quality API now in public preview
GitHub has released repository-level REST APIs for Code Quality findings in public preview. These new read-only endpoints allow programmatic access to CodeQL findings, enabling integrations for tooling and remediation workflows. This feature is available today on github.com and is not yet on GitHub Enterprise Server.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog infraengineer ·
Dependabot gains automatic access to GitHub Packages registries
Dependabot can now access private GitHub Packages registries without requiring personal access tokens (PATs). This enhances security by leveraging the repository's existing Actions access grants, simplifying dependency management for supported ecosystems. To enable this, repository owners must grant Dependabot read access to the relevant packages via the package settings.
feature - GitHub Changelog aigaengineer ·
GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface now GA
GitHub Copilot CLI's redesigned terminal interface is now generally available, offering a tabbed layout for interacting with issues, pull requests, and gists directly from the command line. The update includes a guided, in-session experience for configuring tools like MCP servers, skills, and plugins, along with a cleaner, more accessible UI with theme-aware colors and screen reader support. Users can update the CLI by running `copilot update` in their terminal.
feature patch - GitHub Changelog aipreviewengineer ·
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs adds Claude, organization agents, CLI queues
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs now offers Claude as an agent provider in public preview, alongside support for organization and enterprise custom agents. Users can queue and steer messages in Copilot CLI sessions for better control over long-running tasks. These updates aim to enhance agent flexibility, standardization, and user control for developers using these IDEs.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog aiengineer ·
GitHub Copilot usage API now shows AI credits consumed per user
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now includes a new field, `ai_credits_used`, which reports the total AI credits consumed by each user daily. This enhancement allows enterprise administrators and organization owners to better connect AI consumption to value, understand adoption across teams, and plan for usage-based billing by monitoring day-over-day patterns. These metrics are available to those with REST API access for user-level reports at enterprise and organization levels.
feature - GitHub Changelog aiengineer ·
MAI-Code-1-Flash expands to more GitHub Copilot features
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash coding model is now integrated into additional GitHub Copilot surfaces, including Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and Copilot Chat on GitHub. This small, high-quality model is designed to improve coding assistance across various platforms and plans. Availability will gradually expand, with business and enterprise access planned soon.
feature announcement - GitHub Changelog aigaengineer ·
Copilot code review adds AGENTS.md support and UI improvements
GitHub Copilot code review now supports AGENTS.md files at the repository root, allowing users to shape feedback based on project conventions. UI enhancements include an easier way to request reviews on draft pull requests and collapsed timeline events for a cleaner pull request conversation view. These updates are generally available and aimed at improving the code review experience for developers.
feature patch - GitHub Changelog aipreviewengineer ·
GitHub Issues: Duplicate Detection Preview and Issue Fields MCP Support
GitHub Issues is introducing a public preview for duplicate issue detection, which flags potential matches against existing issues as they are created to reduce maintainer triage time. Additionally, issue fields now support MCP server AI tools, enabling agents to automatically set and filter issues by various fields. These features aim to streamline repository maintenance and issue management for maintainers and developers.
feature announcement
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