GitHub announced three OAuth and GitHub App platform updates: expiring access tokens with refresh, multiple redirect URIs (up to 10), and optional wildcard matching for redirect URIs, all coming to…
xAI's Grok 4.6 reasoning model is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, targeting agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with strong performance on longer-horizon tasks.
GitHub improved license data quality by prioritizing package registries (e.g., npmjs.org, PyPI) over ClearlyDefined, cutting missing licenses from 45% to 24% and using version ranges for better…
GitHub announced Agent Plugins 1.0, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into one installable plugin, with support across VS Code, Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the…
GitHub announced the public preview of the rule insights dashboard at the organization level, allowing aggregated view of repository ruleset evaluation and enforcement across all repositories.
With the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash , we will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026 Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative MAI-Code-1-Flash…
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers…
GitHub now allows enterprise owners to install public third-party GitHub Apps on their enterprise account, and all users and organizations can create GitHub Apps with enterprise permissions, with…
GitHub Copilot's impact dashboard now includes a return on investment section that compares spending and pull request output across developer adoption phases, with a salary selector for modeling.
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports activity from third-party agent apps, broken out by individual agent, allowing teams to track usage per agent.
GitHub Code Quality no longer automatically creates a ruleset that requests Copilot code review on pull requests; existing rulesets have been disabled, but users can manually re-enable the feature.
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which MCP servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys in enterprise managed settings.
GitHub announced general availability of Kimi K3, an open-weight model, in GitHub Copilot. The model offers frontier-level agentic coding abilities at a pricing of $3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M…
GitHub announces the ability to customize code scanning default setup at scale using a new repository property `github-codeql-config-file`, a new syntax for referencing configuration files in other…
GitHub introduces automatic code coverage setup in Code Quality settings, allowing users to generate a coverage workflow via AI with a single click, which opens a pull request for review.
CodeQL 2.26.2 adds support for Swift 6.3.3 and Kotlin 2.4.10, and improves the accuracy of path injection, URL redirection, and GitHub Actions queries.
GitHub Copilot cloud agent now allows users to set the reasoning level for models that support it, controlling how much the model reasons before responding.
GitHub introduces enterprise team specialization for managed settings, allowing administrators to customize Copilot configurations per team using itemized files.
GitHub now allows self-serve migrations from GitLab to GitHub Enterprise Cloud using GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) and the gh gl2gh command-line extension.
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…
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).
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 existing customers…
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.
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 your team work.
Enterprises and organizations can now restrict which devices are eligible to host remotely controlled Copilot sessions , giving administrators fine-grained control over where remote control access is…
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