OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users, GitHub announced. The model is designed for everyday agentic coding and t…
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports model usage from tools outside the IDE, including OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Zed, Copilot CLI, the GitHub app, cloud agent, code review, VS Code and J…
GitHub launched a consolidated GitHub app for Microsoft Teams that combines issue notifications with Copilot, letting users @mention GitHub in a channel, group chat or private chat to have it investig…
GitHub's September 2026 Copilot update for Visual Studio 2026 adds a Git agent that summarizes pull requests with navigable links to comments and files, requiring MCP server connections for GitHub or …
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports the configured names of customer-defined skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands and plugins instead of grouping them…
GitHub began gradually enforcing its global default policy for generally available Copilot features and supported client capabilities on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans, with the rollout…
GitHub added an opt-in "Industry comparison" section to the Copilot impact dashboard that benchmarks an organization's Copilot agentic adoption and leverage against aggregated peer data, ranked agains…
GitHub released a package firewall in public preview for all GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers, including data-resident GitHub Enterprise Cloud, to block malicious packages before installation. The fi…
GitHub made GET and PATCH endpoints for Copilot model policies generally available at four levels: enterprise (/enterprises/{enterprise}/copilot/model-policies), enterprise teams (/enterprises/{enterp…
GitHub deprecated six models across most Copilot experiences — Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions — as of October 19, 2026, following an announcement on September 18…
GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams now supports working across multiple repositories in a single conversation, GitHub announced. The update also lets users mention @GitHub anywhere in a messa…
GitHub will deprecate three models across all GitHub Copilot experiences — Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5, and GPT-5.6 Terra — on November 16, 2026, directing users to Claude Opus 5.5 or GPT-6.1 Sol a…
GitHub made AI Scan for pull requests generally available, a code scanning feature that complements CodeQL by finding vulnerabilities in pull request changes for languages and frameworks CodeQL does n…
GitHub made agentic autofix for code scanning alerts generally available, letting Copilot remediate up to 25 alerts in a single pull request by exploring relevant files, proposing a fix, and rerunning…
GitHub updated HydraFusion's model pool to include Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna, and introduced HydraFusion Max, a frontier-capability tier built on the same orchestration…
Google's Gemini 4 Argon frontier model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, GitHub announced. The model, billed at provider list pricing …
GitHub added Anthropic and Cloudsmith secret detectors to secret scanning and now blocks Anthropic API keys with push protection by default, while Salesforce became a secret scanning partner. The new …
GitHub added the forceRemoteSettingsRefresh setting to enterprise managed settings, letting administrators require supported Copilot clients to fetch current server-managed policy at startup instead o…
GitHub launched a public preview of AI Scan metrics in security overview, giving organization and enterprise administrators visibility into AI Scan findings on pull requests, including how many findin…
GitHub published a beginner's guide detailing four ways to configure its Copilot coding assistant around a specific repository: custom instructions in a `.github/copilot-instructions.md` file, path-sp…