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2025 (12)

November (7)

github: Secret scanning detects Base64-encoded secrets and more — October 2025

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub announced October 2025 updates to its secret scanning service, including new detection for Base64-encoded secrets and other expanded support for additional secret types.

github: GitHub Copilot policy update for unconfigured policies

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub fixed an issue that sometimes caused organization-level Copilot policies to display incorrect options when the enterprise-level policy was set to “Unconfigured.” The change ensures organizations now see the correct Copilot policy options in that scenario.

github: Required review by specific teams now available in rulesets

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub now lets repository administrators require approvals from specific teams to merge changes into protected branches using rulesets. You can target these team-based approval requirements to particular files and folders, giving finer-grained control over who must sign off on changes.

github: Delegate AI controls management to members of your enterprise

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub now lets enterprise owners delegate management of AI and Copilot policies and setup administration to specific enterprise members and teams, without requiring broad enterprise ownership.

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 (5)

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: 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: GitHub Code Quality in public preview

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub Code Quality is now available in public preview, bringing in‑context findings, one‑click Copilot fixes, and reliability and maintainability scores directly into pull requests to help improve code during review.

github: New public preview features in Copilot code review: AI reviews that see the full picture

GitHub

2025-10-28

GitHub announced new public preview features for Copilot code review that combine LLM detections and tool-calling with deterministic analyzers (for example ESLint and CodeQL) to produce smarter, more comprehensive reviews and enable a smooth handoff to the Copilot coding agent.

github: Work with Copilot coding agent in Slack

GitHub

2025-10-28

The GitHub app for Slack now integrates with the GitHub Copilot coding agent, enabling users to generate pull requests directly from Slack conversations. The feature is rolling out and announced on the GitHub Blog.