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Allison announces the June 1, 2026 deprecation of GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex across GitHub Copilot experiences, and outlines the replacement models plus the admin steps needed to ensure the alternatives are available via Copilot model policies.
Allison summarizes the April 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, focusing on agentic workflows like launching cloud agent sessions from the IDE, user-level custom agents and skills discovery, a new debugger agent flow, plus chat history, shortcut customization, and new C++ tools.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot Student is removing GPT-5.3-Codex from the model picker, while keeping it available via auto model selection. The post explains this as part of temporary reliability/performance measures and points to documentation on supported models and upcoming usage-based billing changes.
Allison shares a GitHub Changelog update: Copilot cloud agent now starts over 20% faster by using optimized runner environments prebuilt with GitHub Actions custom images, reducing environment startup overhead when Copilot begins work from issues, PRs, or the Agents tab.
Allison announces a billing change for GitHub Copilot code review: starting June 1, 2026, reviews will consume both Copilot AI Credits and (for private repos) GitHub Actions minutes, with guidance on checking usage, budgets, and runner configuration.
Allison announces an upcoming change to GitHub App installation token format, including Actions-issued GITHUB_TOKEN. The update moves to a longer, stateless JWT-based token and calls out common breakpoints like hardcoded token-length checks, regex validation, and too-small database columns.
Allison announces two upcoming GitHub changes: web notification retention will drop from five months to three, and watches on repositories archived for over six months will be removed for non-collaborators.
Allison announces that GPT-5.5 is rolling out to GitHub Copilot, highlighting improved performance on complex, multi-step agentic coding tasks, plus where you can select it (IDEs, CLI, web, mobile) and what admins need to enable for Business/Enterprise.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs, including inline agent mode (public preview), improvements to Next Edit Suggestions, and new global/granular auto-approve controls for tool calls like terminal commands and file edits, plus UX and reliability refinements.
Allison announces improvements to GitHub Copilot Chat for pull requests, including richer PR context (comments, file changes, commits, reviews) plus new capabilities to review and summarize PRs directly from GitHub surfaces.
Allison announces that GitHub’s new global pull requests dashboard is now enabled by default as an opt-out public preview, and summarizes the latest improvements to the inbox and pull request list views for managing reviews and PR activity.
Allison announces an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics REST API: user-level reports now include a new `used_copilot_cloud_agent` boolean field (matching the Copilot cloud agent rename). The legacy `used_copilot_coding_agent` field remains for backward compatibility until August 1, 2026.
Allison announces an improvement to GitHub’s supply chain security tooling: Python dependency graphs can now be generated via a new Dependabot job that submits dependency snapshots to the Dependency Submission API, producing more complete transitive dependency trees and SBOMs across pip, uv, and Poetry projects.
Allison announces a GitHub organization-level setting that lets org owners disable commit comments across all repositories at once, instead of configuring each repo individually, with steps to find the setting in Organization Settings → Repository → General.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com that improves debugging when you paste a stack trace. Copilot now recognizes stack traces more reliably and responds with a more structured root-cause analysis, including evidence from code references, confidence level, and suggested fixes.
Allison announces a CodeQL update for GitHub code scanning that lets teams declare custom sanitizers and validators as YAML “models-as-data”, improving taint-tracking accuracy without writing custom CodeQL.
Allison announces changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans, including pausing new signups for Pro/Pro+/Student, tightening usage limits with in-product warnings, and removing certain Opus models from Pro (with additional removals planned for Pro+).
Allison announces GitHub’s plan to remove SHA-1 from HTTPS/TLS on github.com and partner CDNs, outlining the 2026 brownout and full shutdown dates and what browser, API client, and Git tooling updates may be needed to stay compatible.
Allison announces general availability of Copilot auto model selection in GitHub Copilot CLI, explaining how the CLI dynamically routes requests to different models, shows which model was used, respects admin policies, and how premium request billing works when auto is enabled.
Allison announces `gh skill`, a new GitHub CLI command for discovering, installing, updating, and publishing portable “agent skills” for AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot), with a focus on version pinning and supply-chain integrity.