GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports GitHub Copilot app activity in enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports, adding fields for daily active app users and a dedicated totals sect…
GitHub announced that Copilot code review now reads custom instructions from the head branch of pull requests, supports additional instruction files (REVIEW.md, GEMINI.md, CLAUDE.md), and allows custo…
GitHub Mobile now lets users select 'Fix with Copilot' directly from pull request comments, using a Copilot cloud agent to generate fixes without manual prompting. The feature is available on the late…
GitHub software engineer Dalia Abuadas argues that AI agents have made code generation cheap, shifting the expensive part of software changes from writing code to debating scope. She proposes using AI…
GitHub launched a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests whole lines or entire functions as developers type. Developed with OpenAI and powered by OpenAI Codex, the to…
Microsoft's June 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio introduces usage tracking with real-time alerts, trust validation for MCP servers, and general availability of the modernization agent …
GitHub has expanded bring-your-own-key (BYOK) support in Copilot for JetBrains IDEs, enabling users to configure OpenAI-compatible custom endpoints with API keys for their own models. The update also …
GitHub code scanning now surfaces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests, expanding vulnerability coverage to languages and frameworks not currently supported by CodeQL. The feature,…
GitHub released a public preview of the `/security-review` slash command in the GitHub Copilot app, enabling developers to run AI-driven vulnerability scans on in-flight code changes directly from the…
GitHub released CodeQL 2.26.0, adding support for Kotlin 2.4.0 and a new JavaScript/TypeScript query to detect AI system prompt injection vulnerabilities. The update also improves analysis accuracy ac…
GitHub renamed its secret scanning detector types to improve clarity, changing 'Non-provider patterns' to 'Generic patterns' and 'Copilot secret scanning' to 'AI-detected secrets'. The update is a nam…
GitHub's Copilot code review performance declined after swapping in shared CLI tools (grep, glob, view) due to poorly adapted instructions, but rewriting those instructions for pull request review wor…
GitHub launched agentic autofix in public preview for code scanning alerts, enabling Copilot to explore codebases, propose fixes, and validate them with CodeQL before opening pull requests. The featur…
GitHub Mobile has introduced improved filters and sorting for Copilot sessions, allowing users to narrow down sessions by status, repository, type, agent, and sort order. The update is available on th…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna variants, is now available in GitHub Copilot, offering different levels of reasoning and cost efficiency for coding tasks. The models are rollin…
GitHub Copilot now offers a high-level overview of any repository on github.com, including its purpose, technologies, and contribution guidelines. Users can also generate a README for repositories lac…
The Aspire team at Microsoft automated cross-repo documentation using GitHub Agentic Workflows, merging 82 feature-docs pull requests at a median of 44.8 hours after the product pull request, each rev…
GitHub announced enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for Copilot in VS Code and CLI, allowing organizations to mandate telemetry flow to approved collectors without individual developer configurat…
GitHub announced general availability of managed Copilot settings deployment via MDM and file-based configuration for VS Code and CLI, enabling enterprise administrators to enforce governance policies…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code received June 2026 updates including generally available agentic browser tools, parallel sessions, cost visibility, Marketplace model discovery, and improved Autop…