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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.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick walkthrough of three MCP servers they use daily in VS Code—GitHub, Playwright, and Microsoft Learn—to extend GitHub Copilot Agent mode for PR review, real-browser testing, and pulling up-to-date documentation as context.

RohitMadhavKrishnan introduces ArchAngel, an educational AI coding assistant designed to bring a team’s engineering standards directly into the IDE, so junior developers get constructive feedback while they write code. The post outlines the core idea, a reference architecture, and the Microsoft-centric stack used to ground guidance in “golden repos.”

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.

Gloridel Morales announces the June 2026 patch releases for Azure DevOps Server, with direct download links, release notes references, and a quick command you can run on the server to verify whether the patch is installed.

Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s May 2026 availability incidents and the reliability work underway, including moving parts of the monolith to Azure, isolating database domains, and hardening GitHub Actions and Copilot services against cascading failures.

Dirk Brinkmann shows how to turn Azure Savings Plan recommendations into defensible, hour-by-hour data by exporting the underlying PAYG usage series and alternative commitment levels from the Azure Cost Management Benefit Recommendations API, using a companion PowerShell script that outputs CSV, Markdown, and JSON files.

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.

viviandiec announces general availability of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Guest OS metrics for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled Servers, plus an updated Azure Monitor VM experience. The post explains what metrics are available, how OTel compares to Log Analytics-based metrics, and how to use PromQL and Grafana dashboards for troubleshooting at scale.

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.

GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursdays session focused on coding, coworking, and discussing takeaways from Microsoft Build.

Waldek Mastykarz explains how AI coding agents can silently scaffold outdated Node.js projects when they run npx without pinning versions, due to npm’s engine-aware manifest selection. The post breaks down why this happens and gives practical steps to make agent-driven scaffolding more predictable.

Sokuma announces the general availability of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Azure Monitor, outlining how teams can track customer-experience reliability with SLI authoring, SLO tracking, error budgets, and burn rate–based alerting in a single Azure Monitor workflow.

Sokuma announces the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using data collection rules (DCRs), highlighting how to continuously stream platform metrics to Azure Storage, Event Hubs, or Log Analytics with multidimensional metrics support, metric-name filtering, and typical end-to-end latency of about three minutes.

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.

Dan Wahlin demonstrates an “agentic journey” workflow that takes an app idea through planning, coding, infrastructure creation, and deployment to Azure, using GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure skills to handle tasks like Bicep templates, health probes, and database wiring for an app backed by Azure SQL and Microsoft Foundry.

Natalie Guevara explains how GitHub improved secret scanning alert quality by adding LLM-based contextual verification, reducing false positives while keeping detection coverage. The post breaks down where verification fits in the pipeline, what “better context” means in practice, and the measured impact on customer-confirmed false positive alerts.

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.

Laura Jiang announces Copilot Autofix in limited private preview for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, which generates suggested fixes for supported CodeQL alerts and turns them into pull requests. The post explains what’s covered in preview, how the workflow fits into existing review gates, and how usage is billed via Azure.

GitHub explains the practical difference between git merge and git rebase, focusing on how each approach affects branch integration and commit history. It frames merge as a way to preserve the full story of how work came together, and rebase as a way to keep a personal branch’s history clean and up to date.

Leah Tran introduces Visual Studio 18.7’s pull request review experience, which lets developers open PRs, browse diffs, discuss comments, and approve or merge changes from inside the IDE for both GitHub and Azure DevOps repos.

TulikaC introduces new Azure CLI commands for listing and viewing Azure App Service for Linux startup logs, making it easier to diagnose container initialization issues, runtime startup failures, warmup probe problems, and slot-specific startup behavior directly from the command line.

BhaktiRath95 breaks down why Azure Container Apps can feel “slow to start” in production, separating true cold starts from scaling delays and resource throttling. It includes concrete fixes like minReplicas tuning, KEDA rule adjustments, probe configuration, image-size reduction, and practical .NET and Django startup optimizations backed by Log Analytics and Application Insights queries.

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.

GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursday session to review GitHub-related announcements shared during Microsoft Build 2026, focusing on what changed and what developers should pay attention to.

j_folberth explains how to deploy Azure AI Foundry Hosted Agents directly from a source-code ZIP instead of a container image, including the deployment lifecycle, an azd-based workflow, and a reusable GitHub Action that posts to the Foundry data plane and polls until the new agent version becomes active.

Waldek Mastykarz explains why piling up dozens of agent “skills” can quietly burn your token budget and reduce response quality, and how to decide what should stay a skill versus what should become a manually-invoked prompt in tools like GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Jeffrey Fritz announces the .NET Day on Agentic Modernization livestream (June 16, 2026), focused on practical ways to modernize existing .NET applications without a full rewrite. The agenda highlights GitHub Copilot-assisted modernization, Aspire-based approaches, migration of WinForms and line-of-business apps, and adding agentic/AI capabilities.

Mahesh Sundaram announces a public preview in Azure Monitor that lets platform teams collect Azure resource platform logs at scale using Data Collection Rules (DCRs), replacing per-resource diagnostic settings with a centralized, policy-driven model that supports governance, cost control, and modern identity-based access.

Apoorv Gupta explains Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a spec-first workflow for AI-native engineering, where structured specs act as the shared source of truth across requirements, design, implementation, and validation. The post introduces GitHub Spec Kit and outlines a practical lifecycle teams can adopt to reduce ambiguity and rework.

Natalie Guevara explains how to give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence by installing and configuring language servers via the LSP Setup skill, replacing brittle grep/decompile workflows with semantic features like go-to-definition, find references, and type resolution in the terminal.

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.

Heather Poulsen shares an event session overview on designing Azure AI Landing Zones as a production-ready foundation for deploying AI applications and AI agents at scale, with guardrails for networking, identity, security, governance, and cost control using Microsoft’s recommended architecture frameworks.

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.

Natalie Guevara explains how to define and run custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI so repeated terminal tasks become consistent, reviewable workflows. The article shows how agent profiles live in your repo, and includes practical examples for security audits, IaC compliance checks, release notes drafting, and incident response.

Dan Hellem and Andrew Brenner announce a limited public preview that brings GitHub Copilot code reviews into Azure Repos pull requests, and walk through how to enable it at the organization, repository, and user levels. The post also documents preview guardrails and how token usage is billed via GitHub AI credits to Azure Cost Management.

GitHub shows a couple of practical ways to undo an accidental commit, depending on whether you already pushed the change or not.