This week’s updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions without losing context. GitHub Copilot… The post GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Enterprise owners can now install public GitHub Apps created outside their enterprise on their enterprise account. This allows third-party integrators to build apps for enterprise management scenarios. Enterprise installations grant… The post Enterprises can now install third-party GitHub Apps appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes a “Potential return on investment” section that connects what you spend on Copilot to the pull request output you get back. What’s new Two… The post Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review are now generally available. They let you match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk of a… The post Copilot code review effort levels are generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Since agent apps arrived on GitHub, teams have been able to run agents from partners like Claude and Codex directly in their GitHub workflows. The Copilot usage metrics API now… The post Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub is making it easier to connect related work and manage multiple field values across issues and projects. Connect related issues The new “Relates to” issue relationship is available in… The post “Relates to” issue relationship in public preview and multi-select fields is generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
This release expands secret scanning’s coverage with more secrets blocked by push protection, one new secret scanning partner, and richer metadata on alerts. Secret scanning partnership program Lovable Labs is… The post Secret scanning coverage updates appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have… The post GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys in enterprise managed… The post MCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
You can now set pull request limits at the organization level. Pull request limits let you define how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at… The post Set pull request limits at the organization level appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Kimi K3, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. The model shows frontier-level abilities on agentic coding with highly cost-effective pricing. Kimi K3 is hosted by GitHub… The post Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
You can now apply your own configuration file to code scanning default setup, using the new github-codeql-config-file repository property. This gives you control over how CodeQL scans your code for… The post Customize code scanning default setup at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your GitHub billing settings. The app helped… The post Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Beginning August 4, 2026, GitHub Spark no longer accepts new users or allows the creation of new apps. Existing users can continue to access GitHub Spark until August 31, 2026… The post Upcoming deprecation of GitHub Spark on github.com appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
You can now customize the branch names Dependabot creates for pull requests. New pull-request-branch-name options in .github/dependabot.yml let you set a prefix and maximum length, choose segment and word separators,… The post Customize Dependabot pull request branch names appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We’re making code coverage setup faster and simpler. You’ll now see a new option in your repository’s Code Quality settings that lets GitHub generate your coverage workflow automatically with AI.… The post Code coverage automatic enablement in Code Quality settings appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.26.2, which adds support for Swift 6.3.3… The post CodeQL 2.26.2 adds Swift 6.3.3 and Kotlin 2.4.10 support appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
When you delegate a task to GitHub Copilot cloud agent, you can now set the reasoning level for models that support it. This allows you to control how much the… The post Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Enterprise administrators can now customize managed settings by targeting enterprise teams with itemized configuration files. Large enterprises can scale governance without bottlenecking every configuration change through central administrators or one-size-fits-all… The post Enterprise team specialization for managed settings appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
You can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created. Common use cases include: Generate documentation: Comment on a pull… The post Trigger Copilot automations with comments appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
If your repository restricts issue creation to collaborators only, users with the triage role can now create issues. Previously, the restricted setting only allowed users with write access to create… The post Triage role can bypass issue creation restrictions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Migrations from gitlab.com and GitLab Self-Managed to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) are now generally available. You can now self-serve these migrations using GEI and the gh… The post Migrate from GitLab to GitHub with GitHub Enterprise Importer appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on September 1st, 2026: Model Deprecation date… The post Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions). Model… The post Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
![A configuration window for an enterprise team called Data team with the “Default models” tab selected, listing AI models and showing a status menu with “Enabled” selected and “Optional” as… The post Enterprise teams model policy targeting in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
npm granular access tokens (GATs) configured to bypass 2FA can no longer perform sensitive account, org, and package management actions. These now require an interactive 2FA challenge, closing one of… The post Restricting npm bypass-2FA granular access tokens appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models is now retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer, including… The post GitHub Models is now retired appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
You can now reference an action or reusable workflow that lives in the same repository using the new self-repository syntax. A uses: value that starts with $/ resolves to your… The post Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can… The post Stacked pull requests are now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
July 2026 brought a new agent based on the Copilot SDK, built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams, and more ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to how you and… The post GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update appeared first on The GitHub Blog.