GitHub
2025-12-22
The GitHub Actions workflows page now handles very large workflows (more than 300 jobs) by using lazy loading for smoother performance, and it also adds the ability to filter jobs to help navigate large workflows.
GitHub has launched a public preview that gives organizations more granular control over who can request GitHub Apps and OAuth apps, enabling stricter governance while preserving flexibility in security posture.
2025-12-19
GitHub announced Delegated alert dismissal, a feature that requires a review process before Dependabot alerts can be closed. It is available to GitHub Code Security customers and was reported on the GitHub Blog (changelog entry dated 2025-12-19).
2025-12-18
When you assign an issue to GitHub Copilot, you are now automatically added as an assignee so you can track that work more easily with assignee filters.
GitHub is offering more GitHub Enterprise customers a self-serve trial of GitHub Advanced Security so they can evaluate GitHub Code Security and GitHub Secret Protection.
GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills — self-contained folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that teach Copilot to perform specialized, repeatable tasks and workflows.
GitHub moved Teams management out of the left-hand navigation into a dedicated page under Settings to simplify navigation and surface other important features more easily.
2025-12-17
GitHub announced dynamic Copilot prompts on GitHub Docs, allowing users to launch GitHub Copilot prompts directly from select documentation pages to move seamlessly from reading docs to using Copilot.
2025-12-16
GitHub Dependabot's version updates now support Julia projects, allowing automatic updates of Julia dependencies.
GitHub has made code scanning alert assignees generally available. Teams can now assign individual code scanning alerts to specific people to create clear ownership and improve tracking and remediation of security vulnerabilities.
2025-12-12
GitHub announced a public preview update to the pull request "Files changed" view that closes a major gap by adding review commit-by-commit, improves commit filtering, and includes other enhancements to make reviewing changes in PRs easier.
2025-12-11
Repository administrators can now post and comment in GitHub Discussions using an “Admin” badge to mark official responses. The option to post as Admin appears in the discussion compose UI so admins can distinguish official repository replies from their personal contributions.