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2025 (12)

November (3)

github: Manage budgets and track usage with new billing API updates

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub expanded its billing APIs to let organizations programmatically manage budgets, track usage, and retrieve cost center data so finance and engineering teams can automate cost controls and reporting.

github: GitHub Copilot policy now supports agent mode in the IDE

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub admins can now control access to Copilot’s agent mode in IDEs through the Copilot policies page on github.com. The change is intended to give organizations better governance over who can use agent mode in development environments.

github: Control AI spending with budget tracking for GitHub AI tools

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub announced budget-tracking controls for AI tools and the launch of two new premium request SKUs for the GitHub Copilot coding agent and GitHub Spark to help teams manage AI spending as usage grows.

October (9)

github: Deprecated models in GitHub Models

GitHub

2025-10-31

GitHub Models has deprecated several older models and asks users to transition to the suggested newer versions (for example, Mistral-Nemo users should move to Mistral-small-2503) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.

github: GitHub MCP Server now comes with server instructions, better tools, and more

GitHub

2025-10-29

GitHub's MCP Server release adds server instructions, improved tooling, and a smaller footprint to enable new and better ways for models to use the server.

github: A mission control to assign, steer, and track Copilot coding agent tasks

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub redesigned the Copilot coding agent task management experience on github.com into a single “mission control” interface that lets you assign, steer, and track tasks without jumping between pages.

github: CodeQL 2.23.3 adds a new Rust query, Rust support, and easier C/C++ scanning

GitHub

2025-10-23

CodeQL 2.23.3 is a maintenance release for GitHub's static analysis engine that adds a new Rust query, improves Rust support, and makes C/C++ scanning easier, helping GitHub code scanning find and remediate security issues more effectively.

github: Selected Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini Copilot models are now deprecated

GitHub

2025-10-23

On October 23, 2025, GitHub deprecated selected Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), according to a GitHub Blog changelog post.

github: Copilot knowledge bases can now be converted to Copilot Spaces

GitHub

2025-10-17

GitHub announced a migration option that lets users convert legacy Copilot knowledge bases into Copilot Spaces ahead of the knowledge bases' sunset on November 1, 2025.

github: Copilot CLI: Multiline input, new MCP enhancements, and Haiku 4.5

GitHub

2025-10-17

GitHub announced daily improvements to Copilot CLI, highlighting multiline input support, a set of new MCP enhancements, and the Haiku 4.5 update. The changelog credits developer feedback—bug reports, feature requests, and discussions—for driving these ongoing improvements.

github: Copilot coding agent uses better branch names and pull request titles

GitHub

2025-10-16

GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — the asynchronous background agent that works on delegated tasks and requests reviews — now generates clearer, more descriptive branch names and pull request titles to improve reviewability and repo hygiene.

github: GitHub MCP Server now supports GitHub Projects and more

GitHub

2025-10-14

The GitHub MCP Server adds native support for GitHub Projects via a new management tool and deploys multiple strategies to reduce the server's footprint, alongside other improvements noted in the changelog.