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2026-10-13

GitHub releases GitHub App improvements for least privilege and management

GitHub announced several GitHub Apps improvements intended to help developers move off classic personal access tokens (PATs), improve GitHub App management, and request fewer sensitive permissions. The source excerpt is truncated and does not detail every change.

2026-10-13

GitHub adds audit log entries for Code Quality finding dismissals and reopenings

GitHub announced that organization and enterprise audit logs now record manual dismissals and reopenings of GitHub Code Quality findings. Findings can appear in a repository's default-branch backlog or other locations covered by the entry.

2026-10-13

Gemini 4 Argon now generally available in GitHub Copilot

Google's Gemini 4 Argon model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, according to a GitHub Blog changelog post published 2026-10-13. GitHub states the model is designed for complex coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks.

2026-10-13

GitHub secret scanning adds Salesforce, Anthropic and Cloudsmith patterns; Anthropic keys blocked by default

GitHub expanded secret scanning to detect new secret types from Salesforce, Anthropic, and Cloudsmith. The new Anthropic secret types are blocked by push protection by default, and Salesforce was added as a secret scanning partner.

2026-10-13

GitHub improves detection of withdrawn Dependabot alerts

GitHub announced changes that make it easier to detect Dependabot alerts that have been withdrawn. Dependabot withdraws and removes an alert when the advisory or vulnerability that produced it is no longer valid, and the update adds two changes to help users identify these withdrawals.

2026-10-12

GitHub adds push attribution for commits in limited public preview

GitHub announced a limited public preview of push attribution, which durably records the authenticated user who pushed each commit. The pusher identity is shown in the UI and API alongside the existing author and committer fields.

2026-08-06

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 ships as a vendor-neutral standard

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 was published on August 6, 2026 — an open specification for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers as portable plugins. A plugin is a directory with a plugin.json manifest and fixed locations for its components, so one package loads across any compatible client. Vercel initiated the proposal; AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI refined it collaboratively. It is supported at launch in ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code.

2026-07-21

Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

GitHub added Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash as a selectable model inside GitHub Copilot, alongside the existing model lineup, giving Copilot users a faster/cheaper option for everyday completions and chat.

2026-07-20

GitHub Code Quality reaches general availability

GitHub Code Quality, which combines CodeQL analysis with AI-assisted detection to flag issues directly in pull requests, is now generally available on Enterprise Cloud and Team plans. Pricing is $10 per active committer per month, plus metered charges for AI and CodeQL compute.

2026-07-20

GitHub adds AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI

GitHub's billing UI now supports allocating AI credit pools per cost center, alongside a related update letting Copilot users see AI credits consumed per billing cycle directly in the product.