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2025 (12)

October (2)

github: Spark: 🚀 Expanded access, enhanced reliability, and faster iteration history

GitHub

2025-10-01

GitHub announced Spark is available in Public Preview for Copilot Enterprise customers, including Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) CE. Organization admins can enable Spark to provide access; the release emphasizes expanded access, improved reliability, and faster iteration history.

github: Auto model selection is now in VS Code for Copilot Business and Enterprise

GitHub

2025-10-01

GitHub announced that auto model selection in Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview for Copilot Business and Enterprise plans; the feature automatically selects the appropriate model for you.

September (10)

github: Start your new repository with Copilot coding agent

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub added a new Prompt field on the New repository page that lets you use the Copilot coding agent to kickstart work when creating a repository, announced on the GitHub Blog changelog.

github: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is in public preview for Copilot coding agent

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Copilot’s asynchronous coding agent now supports Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5. The integration is available in public preview and connects Copilot coding agent with Anthropic’s most advanced model for coding and real‑world agent tasks.

github: Premium requests analytics page is now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub launched a new Premium Requests analytics dashboard (generally available Sept 29, 2025) that offers comprehensive insights into premium request activity with data back to August 1, 2025.

github: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update

GitHub

2025-09-30

The September 2025 GitHub Copilot update for Visual Studio adds new Profiler and .NET Modernization agents, enhances MCP interactions, and introduces smarter code review capabilities to speed debugging, modernization, and developer workflows.

github: Secret scanning adds validators for MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Secret Scanning has added validity-check validators for secrets related to MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure. These new checks augment existing validators to improve detection of provider-specific credentials and prevent accidental commits of valid secrets.

github: Copilot coding agent remembers context within the same pull request

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub's Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous background developer agent that opens draft pull requests, makes changes, and requests review — now remembers context within the same pull request, allowing it to maintain continuity across related tasks.

github: GitHub Spark in public preview for Copilot Enterprise subscribers

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub announced GitHub Spark, a new offering intended to help organizations move ideas into working software more quickly. Spark is now available in public preview for Copilot Enterprise subscribers and aims to reduce time spent on specs and mocks that never reach production.

github: Strengthening npm security: Important changes to authentication and token management

GitHub

2025-09-29

GitHub announced the first phase of security improvements for npm that change how authentication and token management work. The update is part of a staged rollout intended to harden the npm ecosystem and was posted on the GitHub Blog.

github: New date for enforcement of cache eviction policy

GitHub

2025-09-29

GitHub is delaying enforcement of a new cache eviction policy for GitHub Actions from mid-October to November. The current per-repository cache limit remains 10 GB while the enforcement date is postponed.

github: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is in public preview for GitHub Copilot

GitHub

2025-09-29

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, described as their most advanced model for coding and real‑world agents, is rolling out in public preview inside GitHub Copilot and is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise customers.