You can now convert all branch protection rules of a repository to rulesets in a single action. This is an extension of the ability to convert a single branch ...

Editor’s note (October 21, 2026): Rewrote the changelog for clarity and added imagery. There’s been a recent flood of malware attacks that exploit systems at package installation time. Agents and CI ...

Everything developers need to know about LLMs.

During periods of unusual traffic, GitHub may temporarily require authentication for some clones and fetches of public repositories over HTTPS to help protect github.com’s availability. If an ...

Please update your workflows and integrations to use supported models. Copilot Enterprise administrators may need to enable access to alternative models through their ...

Enterprises can now manage their dependencies’ licenses at scale with sophisticated, ruleset-based checks that enforce a centralized policy. Open source license compliance is now generally available ...

You can now use the generally available Xcode 27 runner image to build and test your Apple applications in GitHub Actions. Previously in public preview, this GitHub-hosted image runs on macOS 27 and ...

@GitHub in Slack and Teams now supports working across multiple repositories in a single conversation. Whether you’re creating issues, opening pull requests, or investigating bugs, you can work across ...

*Claude Opus 4.8 will remain available to individual GitHub Copilot subscribers on annual plans so they retain an Opus offering. The deprecation of Claude Opus 4.8 does not apply to these customers.

Code scanning AI Scan for pull requests is now generally available. It complements CodeQL by finding vulnerabilities in pull request changes for languages and frameworks that CodeQL does not currently ...

Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts is now generally available. It remediates alerts by working across your codebase the way a developer would: it explores relevant files, proposes a fix, and ...

As of October 15, 2026, email notifications for repository push events have been retired and are no longer sent. We shut down this feature to help prevent spam and abuse. Because recipients didn’t ...