GitHub
2026-09-09
GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise admins can now centrally manage agent operation permissions. Admins can set operations to be blocked, require human approval, or run without prompting.
GitHub Advanced Security self-serve trials are now available to more GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. The trial can be used to evaluate GitHub Code Security and GitHub Secret Protection.
GitHub added a repository ruleset capability to prevent pull requests from merging when they introduce exposed secrets. This extends rulesets as a repository-wide protection mechanism.
GitHub added agentic autofix for Code Quality findings, allowing users to select and assign up to 25 standard findings at once for automated remediation. The feature is aimed at reducing backlog items in code quality reports.
Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise-managed sandbox policies, along with cross-file cursor jumps for next edit suggestions, global project context in chat, and enterprise policy diagnostics. The update also adds a new terminal Copilot connection.
2026-09-08
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 is generally available. The release adds new platform capabilities, including administrator configuration for Copilot CLI.
GitHub moved and redesigned its support portal to help.github.com. The new portal combines support, documentation, learning, community, account resources, and Copilot-powered search in one place.
2026-09-04
GitHub Copilot’s latest weekly release adds more model choice and content protection controls. VS Code also gets new options for managing agent sessions and preparing pull requests for merge.
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. GitHub says the model is intended for long-horizon, autonomous coding and agentic tasks.
GitHub added a new REST API endpoint for repository star history that lets users track star growth over time without exposing individual stargazer identities. This follows earlier restrictions on stargazer listing endpoints to admins and collaborators.
2026-09-03
GitHub says three npm publishing updates are now generally available, including support for multiple trusted publishing configurations per package. The post also mentions staged publishing and another publishing-related change, but the provided excerpt does not include the full details.
GitHub Actions added three updates focused on workflow visibility and control. The post highlights a new REST API for runner version deprecations, but the provided excerpt does not include the full details of the other changes.