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Allison announces an update to GitHub’s automatically generated release notes: when a merged pull request was opened by Copilot cloud agent, the release notes now credit the developer who requested the PR alongside @copilot, so the human contributor is recognized.
Allison announces two new GitHub CLI commands—gh repo read-file and gh repo read-dir—that let you inspect files and directories in remote repositories from the terminal without cloning, enabling faster documentation checks, config reviews across repos, and scriptable repository inspection.
Allison summarizes June 2026 improvements to GitHub secret scanning, including new detectors, expanded push protection defaults, added validity checks for more secret types, and richer metadata on detections to help teams prioritize remediation.
Allison announces a new GitHub Copilot enterprise governance control that lets admins disable bypassing permission prompts (“yolo mode” / auto-approve) in Copilot clients. The update explains where to place the enterprise-managed settings file, how it’s applied to licensed users, and which VS Code versions respect the policy.
Allison announces general availability of auto model selection in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app, explaining how auto routes requests to different AI models based on task complexity and real-time availability, and how it affects transparency, policy controls, and token billing.
Allison announces a GitHub repository setting that lets maintainers cap how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at once, helping reduce review queue noise and CI overhead in busy open source projects.
Allison announces GitHub Copilot’s new agent finder, which discovers and ranks agent capabilities from a registry you choose, with enterprise controls over what resources can be surfaced and used.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot individual plan sign-ups are reopening (Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max) and outlines immediate changes to how upgrades and continued usage work when you approach included usage and spending limits.
Allison announces the general availability of the GitHub Copilot app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, positioning it as a desktop workflow for agent-driven development. The post highlights starting sessions from issues or pull requests, running parallel sessions per repo, reviewing diffs, and using canvases, cloud automations, and MCP-connected tools.
Allison announces that GitHub Models is being retired and is no longer available to new organizations and enterprises, while existing customers can continue using the playground, API, and models for now.
Allison announces that GitHub Code Quality moves from public preview to general availability on July 20, 2026, including new org-level rollout and reporting features plus a new pricing model that combines per-committer licensing with metered AI usage and GitHub Actions minutes for CodeQL scans.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Code Quality that lets organization admins enable or disable Code Quality across all repositories with a single org-level toggle, making it easier to roll out consistent code quality checks at scale on supported GitHub plans.
Allison explains an update to GitHub Copilot enterprise usage reporting: usage metrics now combine server-side telemetry with client-side IDE signals, so more active (billed) users appear in single-day and 28-day reports, even when client telemetry doesn’t reach GitHub.
Allison announces new controls for GitHub Copilot code review, including organization-level runner configuration (GitHub-hosted, self-hosted, or large runners), support for Copilot content exclusions at repo/org/enterprise scope, and removal of the 4,000-character limit for repository custom instruction files.
Allison outlines when GitHub Actions will start enforcing minimum versions for self-hosted runners, including the registration baseline, the ongoing 30-day update requirement, and the brownout schedule leading up to full enforcement for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Data Residency tenants.
Allison announces GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21 general availability, highlighting updates for enterprise admins including organization custom properties for targeting rulesets, GitHub Projects hierarchy view, a new REST API version with breaking changes, GitHub Actions workflow page performance improvements, secret scanning governance updates, and multi-disk storage configuration.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Actions where pull requests opened by github-actions[bot] can run CI/CD workflows after a user with write access approves them, reducing the risk of merging untested bot changes while keeping a security gate for workflows that can access sensitive data.
Allison explains an update to GitHub AI usage reports so GitHub AI Credits usage is reflected in the standard report fields, including what to use going forward and what changed for data since June 1.
Allison announces a new /settings command in GitHub Copilot CLI that centralizes configuration into a schema-driven interface, supporting an interactive full-screen dialog, inline one-liners, and reset-to-default workflows with tab-completed keys and validation.
Allison announces two new GitHub-hosted runner images in public preview for GitHub Actions, aimed at helping teams validate CI workloads on newer platforms and toolchains before they reach general availability.
Allison announces the public preview of GitHub Agentic Workflows, a GitHub Actions capability that lets teams define reasoning-based automations in natural-language Markdown and compile them into standard Actions YAML, with built-in controls aimed at keeping agent-driven changes safe to apply.
Allison announces that GitHub Agentic Workflows can now authenticate using GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token, reducing the risk of long-lived credentials and enabling organization-level billing for Copilot CLI usage in agentic workflows.
Allison announces new GitHub CLI support for GitHub Discussions via the gh discussion command group, letting developers list, view, create, edit, and comment on discussions directly from the terminal without relying on raw gh api calls.
Allison announces GitHub CLI v2.94.0 support for managing issue types, sub-issue hierarchies, and dependency relationships directly from the terminal, including new flags and JSON fields for automation.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot Chat on the web that improves handoff to Copilot cloud agent sessions and adds ways to query previous sessions. The release surfaces in-progress agent status in chat, enables pulling agent logs into the conversation, and adds session search for summarizing past work.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Enterprise Cloud billing: enterprises can now create up to 500 cost centers, up from 250, enabling more granular tracking and reporting of usage and spend across large organizations.
Allison announces incremental CodeQL analysis for Go and C/C++ pull request scans, plus incremental support in the CodeQL CLI, with measured speedups across thousands of repositories and details on when the feature is enabled by default.
Allison announces an experimental public preview feature in GitHub Copilot CLI: a /security-review command that reviews local code changes for common vulnerability classes and returns severity- and confidence-scored findings plus actionable fixes directly in the terminal.
Allison announces an update to GitHub code scanning that lets organizations keep security coverage on inactive repositories by running scheduled scans when there have been no pushes or pull requests for six months or more.
Allison announces that GitHub’s security validation for third-party coding agents is now generally available, bringing the same automated checks used for the GitHub Copilot cloud agent to agent-generated pull requests.
Allison announces general availability of IP allow list enforcement for GitHub Enterprise Cloud Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs), extending enterprise network access policies to repositories owned under EMU user namespaces and covering web, Git, and API access.
Allison announces the deprecation of GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex across most GitHub Copilot experiences, and points teams to the supported replacement models and the admin settings needed to enable them in Copilot Enterprise.
Allison summarizes what’s new in CodeQL 2.25.6 for GitHub code scanning, including Swift 6.3.2 support, full extractor and data flow coverage for C# 14 and .NET 10, and query improvements that expand sensitive-data detection and reduce false positives across multiple languages.
Allison announces a public preview feature that lets enterprises centrally configure and distribute GitHub Copilot CLI plugins through VS Code 1.122, using a shared settings.json so standardized plugin marketplaces, hooks, and MCP configurations are applied automatically for licensed users.
Allison announces that Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers can use “Fix with Copilot” to automatically investigate and propose fixes for failing GitHub Actions jobs, pushing changes to a branch and tagging the developer for review.
Allison announces a public preview REST API that lets Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks programmatically, enabling teams to integrate agent-driven code changes into scripts and internal tooling.
Allison announces general availability of GitHub’s expanded billing REST APIs, covering programmatic budget lifecycle management, account/org/repo usage reporting, and cost center querying for enterprise billing workflows.
Allison announces general availability of new GitHub REST API endpoints that let enterprise administrators programmatically request and download billing usage reports as CSV files, matching the same report types available in the GitHub UI.
Allison announces new GitHub Copilot capabilities: support for one-million-token context windows and configurable reasoning levels, plus guidance on how these choices affect AI credit consumption across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app.
Allison summarizes the May 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, covering new agent planning workflows, skill discovery, multi-file change review, context window tracking, and tighter Git integration for bringing commits into Copilot Chat and centralizing commit message instructions.