Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
…We understand the impact these outages have had on your teams, your workflows, and your confidence in our platform. Here, we’ll unpack what’s been causing these incidents and what we…
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Why age assurance laws matter for developers
…from consumer-facing platforms in regulatory design. Open source software is also a key driver of economic development and innovation and functions as critical digital infrastructure. Ensuring that policies accurately reflect how…
Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts in public preview - GitHub Changelog
…An organization or repository admin can turn Copilot Autofix off in Settings, and an enterprise admin can disable it by policy. When disabled via policy, both the classic and agentic autofix experiences…
From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI
…You ensure products are inclusive, usable, and aligned with WCAG 2.1/2.2 across A/AA/AAA. # Your Expertise **Standards & Policy**: WCAG 2.1/2.2 conformance, A/AA/AAA mapping…
Code scanning shows AI security detections on pull requests - GitHub Changelog
…quality trends application security platform governance Aug.18 Improvement Credential revocation and deauthorization by token type application security enterprise management tools Aug.07 Improvement Secret scanning coverage updates application security Aug.07…
How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies
…This review helps ensure that the licenses for those dependencies’ comply with your policy, while also giving you the flexibility to expand your policy to allow new licenses or individual projects. Two…
Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth apps - GitHub Changelog
Back to changelog We’ve released multiple updates to the OAuth app and GitHub App platforms to support more secure app development: OAuth apps can opt in to expiring access tokens and…
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GitHub availability report: February 2026
…This outage was caused by a loss in telemetry that cascaded to mistakenly applying security policies to backend storage accounts in our underlying compute provider. Those policies blocked access to critical VM…
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…Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used…