Pausing new GitHub Copilot Pro trials
April 13, 2026 update: All GitHub Copilot Pro trials, including existing trials, have been paused while our investigation continues. In the meantime, if you were on a Copilot trial, you…
Actions workflows are limited to 50 reruns
Actions workflows are now limited to 50 reruns. Going forward, if you attempt to rerun a given workflow more than 50 times, you will get a failed check suite with…
Copilot CLI activity now included in usage metrics totals and feature breakdowns
Previous CLI metrics releases added a standalone totals_by_cli section to the Copilot usage metrics API with session counts, request counts, and token usage. That section reported CLI activity separately from…
Copilot cloud agent’s validation tools are now 20% faster
When Copilot cloud agent writes code, it automatically runs GitHub’s security and quality validation tools, including CodeQL, the GitHub Advisory Database, secret scanning, and Copilot code review. If any problems…
Ask Copilot in security assessments now available
Organization admins and security managers can now jump into a Copilot experience directly from secret risk assessment or Code Security risk assessment results to get contextual explanations and guided next…
New Low Quality option in the Hide comment menu
GitHub moderators can now classify hidden comments as Low Quality, a new option in the Hide comment dropdown menu available across issues, discussions, pull requests, and commits. Previously, the available…
New Sort by control added to Notifications
A new “Sort by” control appears on the Notifications page, with two options: Newest to oldest (which matches the previous behavior) and Oldest to newest. The selected sort order applies…
Repository member role labels now in pull request list view
You can now see repository member role labels directly in the pull request list view for public repositories. Role labels, such as First-time contributor, Contributor, and Member, now appear inline…
Release information in issue sidebar and default values for project fields
This update brings release tracking closer to your issues, configurable defaults for project fields, and faster navigation across related issues. Release information in the issue sidebar When an issue is…
Copilot-reviewed pull request merge metrics now in the usage metrics API
Building on the pull request throughput and cycle-time metrics shipped in February, which track Copilot-created pull requests from the coding agent, the Copilot usage metrics API now includes two new…
Secret scanning improvements to alert APIs, webhooks, and delegated workflows
This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to our APIs, webhooks, and delegated workflows. These improvements strengthen our continued investment in the developer experience of our secret scanning features. Built…
GitHub Mobile: Research and code with Copilot cloud agent anywhere
Copilot cloud agent now supports more than pull request workflows on GitHub Mobile, so you can keep work moving even when you’re away from your desk. Ask Copilot to research…
Code Security risk assessment available for organizations
Organization admins and security managers can now run a free Code Security risk assessment to review security vulnerabilities across their organization. The assessment summarizes vulnerabilities by severity, rule type, and…
New PGP signing key for GitHub CLI Linux packages
We’ve published an updated PGP keyring for GitHub CLI’s Linux package repositories. The keyring now includes both the current signing key and a new replacement key. If you’ve already rerun…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, March Releases
VS Code moved to weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.111 through v1.115, the releases we shipped throughout March and early April 2026. The highlights include Autopilot for fully…
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