GitHub
2026-05-11
GitHub Mobile now supports creating new repositories directly in the app. On iOS, you can start from Home or Profile, tap the + button, and select Create repository.
2026-05-08
GitHub will deprecate Grok Code Fast 1 across all GitHub Copilot experiences on May 15, 2026. The deprecation applies to Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions.
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports Copilot code review suggestions broken down by comment type. This adds a new `copilot_suggestions_by_comment_type` metric for analyzing code review activity.
Kubernetes Official Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes volume group snapshots to GA, with the API graduating to `groupsnapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1`. The feature lets CSI-backed storage drivers take crash-consistent snapshots across multiple PVCs using label selectors and restore workloads from those grouped snapshots.
Microsoft Security Blog
Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability in kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components such as esp4, esp6, and rxrpc. It can escalate an unprivileged user to root and has been seen in limited in-the-wild activity; Microsoft Defender includes detection coverage.
GitHub now lets personal account owners set commit comments to be enabled or disabled by default for their repositories. This adds a user-level default for commit comment behavior across repos they own.
GitHub says Copilot cloud agent now supports more flexible handling of secrets and variables when you delegate tasks to it. The agent runs in a GitHub Actions-backed development environment, and users can pass secrets and variables into that environment.
CodeQL 2.25.3 has been released with support for Swift 6.3. The note does not list any other changes.
You can now allow multiple jobs or workflow runs to wait in the same GitHub Actions concurrency group instead of being limited to a single pending run. Previously, a concurrency...
GitHub will deprecate GPT-4.1 across all Copilot experiences on 2026-06-01. Users are directed to switch to the suggested alternative model.
2026-05-07
GitHub deprecated Claude Sonnet 4 across all Copilot experiences on May 6, 2026. The deprecation applies to Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions.
Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM) is now in public preview. It lets enterprise administrators migrate repositories from GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud.