What is new in GitHub: October releases explained
The GitHub Changelog team puts October’s releases in the context of day-to-day development, with a practical look at software factories and tools in the GitHub Copilot app.
October release overview
The episode explores how teams can automate routine pipeline tasks and coordinate work with coding agents. Its main topics are:
- Software factories: What the term means in practical development workflows.
- Self-learning Copilot automations: Using automations to handle issue triage.
- Copilot Projects: Orchestrating work across multiple repositories without cloning them locally.
- Engineering management in the age of agents: How agent-based work relates to managing engineering teams.
- Copilot Fusion: Routing tasks across frontier models.
Episode chapters
- 00:00 — Welcome to the October releases
- 01:39 — Demystifying software factories
- 02:56 — Self-learning Copilot automations
- 08:22 — Orchestrating multi-repo work with Copilot Projects
- 14:23 — Engineering management in the age of agents
- 16:41 — Copilot Fusion and frontier models