GitHub availability report: May 2026
…Full recovery was confirmed at 12:56 UTC. During this incident, a small number of issues, pull requests, comments, and discussions were marked as hidden when the service account was disabled. No…
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GitHub Copilot for Jira: Our latest enhancements - GitHub Changelog
…Custom fields Copilot cloud agent can now read the content of Atlassian custom fields—such as acceptance criteria—and include that context when working on your issue. This means the agent receives…
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview - GitHub Changelog
…With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside GitHub Actions. Define your automation in natural language Markdown…
Major agentic capabilities improvements in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs - GitHub Changelog
…User experience We have improved the sign-in experience to reduce friction and make Copilot more immediately accessible. The chat panel opens automatically after signing in for faster access to Copilot. And…
GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
…Copilot CLI has a redesigned TUI in /experimental mode with tabbed access to pull requests, issues, and gists from the terminal. Voice mode uses on-device speech-to-text, so audio never…
Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability
…responded, and what we are doing to prevent similar issues in the future. Receiving the bug bounty report The bug bounty report described a way for any user with push access to…
GitHub secret scanning — coverage update - GitHub Changelog
…Secrets from Figma, Google, OpenVSX, and PostHog are now push-protected by default . Validity checks are now supported for npm secrets ( npm_access_token ). Missed our last update? Catch up on recently…
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI
…You’ll learn how to install it using npm, authenticate with your GitHub account, grant folder permissions, and run your first prompts to generate code directly from the terminal. Let’s get…
GitHub Actions: Early April 2026 updates - GitHub Changelog
…Align cloud access controls with your organization’s repository governance model. To get started, configure custom properties on your repositories and reference them in your cloud provider’s OIDC trust policy. For…
GitHub Copilot app generally available - GitHub Changelog
…Start a session from an issue, pull request, or prompt. Run parallel sessions across repositories, each on its own branch and worktree. Review the diff, validate in the integrated terminal and browser…