GitHub’s Actions workflow dispatch API can now optionally return response metadata, including workflow run IDs, to help correlate a dispatch request with the resulting run.
GitHub Copilot support in the Zed editor is now generally available via an official partnership. Copilot subscriptions (Pro, Pro+, Business, Enterprise) can authenticate and be used directly in Zed.
GitHub Projects now lets you populate a new project by importing items returned from a search query, not only by importing from a repository. The hierarchy view also received usability improvements.
GitHub Secret Scanning now supports configuring extended metadata checks via security configurations, making it easier to enable these checks across many repositories.
Claude Opus 4.6 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for Enterprise, Business, Pro, and Pro+ plans. It can be used in Copilot Chat on github.com and in supported IDEs.
GitHub Desktop 3.5.5 adds support for Git hooks to address prior compatibility issues, especially with version managers and environment-dependent scripts.
GitHub Copilot is rolling out support for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, now generally available. GitHub notes early testing shows strong performance on agentic coding, especially search.
GitHub’s “required reviewer” rule for repository rulesets is now generally available. It lets admins require approvals from specific reviewers for changes targeting defined branches and paths across an org/enterprise.
GitHub shipped updates to organization/enterprise policy controls: custom properties now allow requiring an explicit value, and rule insights provide improved visibility into rule activity.
GitHub updated its status page to make incident details easier to find and more useful during active incidents. The status site now includes a 90-day historical view of availability.
GitHub now lets enterprise and organization admins choose whether to display users’ profile names (first and last) alongside their handles across the enterprise UI.
GitHub added two new repository settings to control how a repo accepts contributions via pull requests, including an option to disable pull requests entirely.
GitHub announced upcoming network configuration changes for Copilot coding agent, which runs background tasks in its own GitHub Actions-powered environment.
GitHub introduced Agentic Workflows in technical preview, enabling AI agents to run repository automation tasks inside GitHub Actions. Workflows can be authored in Markdown rather than YAML, delegating task planning/execution to the agent.
GitHub Enterprise admins can now authorize GitHub Apps (using fine-grained enterprise teams permissions) to access Enterprise Teams API endpoints in public preview. Previously, these endpoints required a classic personal access token.
GitHub Copilot is rolling out a research/public preview of Claude Opus 4.6 “Fast mode.” The mode increases output token generation speed by up to 2.5×.
GitHub Actions’ early February 2026 update adds custom runner autoscaling, broadens security controls to all users, and provides early access to new Windows and macOS runner images.
GitHub Copilot for VS Code v1.109 (January 2026) adds agent-driven workflows, improves agent session management, and introduces agent support for Anthropic Claude models.
January 2026 updates to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio add colorized code completions, the ability to partially accept a completion, and general productivity improvements.
GitHub Dependabot can now authenticate to private registries using OpenID Connect (OIDC), removing the need to store long-lived registry credentials as repository secrets for Dependabot update jobs.
GitHub has open-sourced the Dependabot Proxy and released it under the permissive MIT license, allowing developers to review the implementation (including how authentication is handled for different package ecosystems), reuse it, and contribute.