GitHub released Desktop 3.6 with Git worktree support and deeper Copilot integration, including AI-powered commit authoring and merge conflict resolution. The update uses the Copilot SDK and allows mo…
GitHub evaluated its Copilot agentic harness across multiple benchmarks and models, finding it achieves task completion rates on par with vendor harnesses while using fewer tokens. The harness powers …
GitHub's Copilot code review now uses CLI-based file exploration tools, reducing costs by 20% while maintaining quality. Medium analysis depth public preview adds organization-level default settings a…
GitHub announced public preview of strictKnownMarketplaces enterprise-managed settings for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, enabling administrators to restrict plugin installations to approved marketpl…
GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available, introducing real-time agent progress streaming, post-session steering, and simplified onboarding. The integration, which launched in public preview …
GitHub is changing model selection for Copilot Free and Student plans to use auto model selection as the default, removing manual choice. Auto dynamically selects the best model for each task, and Mic…
GitHub has made the redesigned terminal interface for Copilot CLI generally available, featuring a tabbed layout for browsing issues, pull requests, and gists, a guided tool configuration experience, …
GitHub joined an open source coalition including Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, and Mozilla Corporation to advocate for amendments to California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942/SB 1000), arguing that …
GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), allowing users to run agent sessions against their own model providers including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted models. Key…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs now supports organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, allows queuing and steering messages in CLI sessions, introduces an agent debug logs summary view, and br…
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports AI credits consumed per user per day, enabling enterprise administrators and organization owners to track consumption alongside usage data. The new `ai_c…
GitHub built Qubot, an internal Copilot-powered analytics agent that allows employees to ask questions about data in plain language via Slack, VS Code, and Copilot CLI. The agent uses a federated cont…
GitHub will deprecate the Opus 4.6 (fast) model across all Copilot experiences on June 29, 2026, urging users to migrate to Opus 4.8 (fast). Enterprise administrators must enable the alternative model…
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash, a small coding model, is now available on additional GitHub Copilot surfaces including Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Chat, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBra…
GitHub announced general availability of Copilot code review support for repository-level AGENTS.md files and UI improvements, including easier review requests on draft pull requests and collapsed tim…
GitHub announced a public preview of duplicate issue detection, which flags potential matches against existing issues during issue creation. The company also added issue fields support to its MCP serv…
GitHub now includes Copilot-authored pull requests in author searches on github.com and GitHub Mobile, allowing users to see all pull requests they authored, whether directly or via Copilot, with a si…
GitHub has introduced pull request limits to help open-source maintainers manage the surge in contributions, which has grown from 25 million to 90 million monthly pull requests since January 2023. The…
GitHub now credits developers alongside Copilot in generated release notes for pull requests created by the Copilot cloud agent. The change ensures that developers receive recognition for work done wi…
GitHub released two new CLI commands, gh repo read-file and gh repo read-dir, enabling users to read remote repository content without cloning. Available in GitHub CLI v2.95.0, the commands work acros…