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Docs changelog
15 August 2025
When interacting with the GitHub MCP server for a public repository, push protection blocks secrets from appearing in AI-generated responses and also prevents secrets from being included in any actions you perform, such as creating an issue.
See Working with push protection and the GitHub MCP server.
12 August 2025
OpenAI GPT-5 is now available in public preview for GitHub Copilot. GPT-5 is slowly rolling out to all paid Copilot plans and you will be able to access the model in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and Visual Studio Code (Agent, Ask, and Edit modes).
See Supported AI models in Copilot.
12 August 2025
We’ve updated the documentation for Copilot repository custom instructions to go with the release that now brings this feature to the Eclipse IDE.
See: Adding repository custom instructions for GitHub Copilot and About customizing GitHub Copilot Chat responses.
12 August 2025
We have added a tutorial for using Copilot to create Mermaid diagrams at Creating Diagrams.
4 August 2025
To address common pain points that developers face when remediating a leaked secret, we created a new article, "Remediating a leaked secret".
The new guide incorporates cross-platform GitHub tools, as well as opinionated guidance from GitHub's secret scanning team, to walk the developer through a thorough remediation process.
It also clearly communicates the risks of leaked secrets, the challenges of remediation, and the value of enabling GitHub Secret Protection.
28 July 2025
We have restructured the general "Billing and payments" articles to align with the Copilot and Actions docs. In addition, we've combined a few old "About" articles to directly answer common questions that new users have: How GitHub billing works and Introduction to billing and licensing.
16 July 2025
We've added documentation describing how to use the GraphQL API to create a new issue and, in the same request, assign the issue to Copilot coding agent.
See: Using Copilot to work on an issue.
16 July 2025
We've updated the Copilot documentation to coincide with the release of an improved user interface for configuring the firewall for Copilot coding agent.
See: Customizing or disabling the firewall for Copilot coding agent.
16 July 2025
We've updated the Copilot docs to coincide with the release of issue form support for Copilot Chat. When you use Copilot Chat to create an issue, an issue form will be used if there's an appropriate one in the repo. Previously only issue templates were supported.
See Using GitHub Copilot to create issues.
30 June 2025
Many enterprise customers want to measure the downstream impact of Copilot on their company, looking beyond leading metrics like adoption and usage.
Inspired by GitHub's latest guidance, we've published three guides that provide usecases, training resources, and metrics to help you plan and measure your rollout to achieve real-world goals, such as increasing test coverage.
Get started at Achieving your company's engineering goals with GitHub Copilot.
27 June 2025
We've published a new guide about how to combine use of GitHub Copilot's agent mode with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to complete complex tasks through agentic "loops" - illustrated through an accessibility compliance example. The guide also discusses best practices and benefits around using these two features together. See Enhancing Copilot agent mode with MCP.
27 June 2025
We’ve published a new set of new documentation articles designed to help users make the most of the Dependabot metrics page in the organization’s security overview.
These clear, actionable guides help users:
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View metrics for Dependabot alerts This article is aimed at security and engineering leads who want to learn how to access and interpret key metrics, so they can quickly assess their organization’s exposure and remediation progress.
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Understand your organization’s exposure to vulnerable dependencies In this article, security analysts and compliance teams get a deep dive into how vulnerable dependencies are tracked and what these numbers mean for their risk landscape.
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Prioritize Dependabot alerts using metrics This guide provides engineering managers and remediation teams with strategies for using metrics to focus the team’s efforts where they matter most, making remediation more efficient.
27 June 2025
We've published a new scenario-based guide for Copilot: Learning a new programming language with GitHub Copilot.
This guide is for developers who are proficient with at least one programming language and want to learn an additional language. It provides information about how you can use Copilot as your personalized learning assistant. It also provides many ready-made prompts that you can use when you are learning a new programming language.
25 June 2025
GitHub Models launched Pay-As-You-Go billing and Bring Your Own Key support. This provides real production usage for the first time and lays the foundation for Models to scale beyond a free sandbox.
See About Billing for GitHub Models and Using your own API keys in GitHub Models.
23 June 2025
We’ve restructured our documentation around Copilot’s AI models to make it easier for users to understand, choose, and configure models across clients and plans. See Supported AI models in Copilot and Choosing the right AI model for your task.
18 June 2025
We've published a new responsible AI article for Copilot: Responsible use of GitHub Copilot code completion. This provides RAI transparency information for this feature of GitHub Copilot.
13 June 2025
We've published a new article for people learning to code: Developing your project locally.
This tutorial helps learners gain core skills needed to set up any project locally by working through an example client-side application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The goal is to help new coders use GitHub tools to recognize patterns across different technologies and build confidence in their ability to set up any project locally.
13 June 2025
To manage System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) integration with confidence, customers need to understand the different types of deprovisioning, the actions that trigger them, and their options for reinstating deprovisioned users.
We've published a new article to answer questions around suspending and reinstating Enterprise Managed Users, or users where SCIM is enabled on GitHub Enterprise Server: Deprovisioning and reinstating users with SCIM.
11 June 2025
We've added a new scenario-based guide for the Builder persona: Using Copilot to explore a codebase.
24 April 2025
To help learners feel confident they are building real coding skills while using Copilot, we published Setting up Copilot for learning to code.
This article helps learners take their first steps in coding with Copilot acting as a tutor, rather than a code completion tool. Configuring Copilot for learning emphasizes skill development and gives learners a way to use Copilot as a daily tool to foster learning and coding independence.