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November 7, 2026Improvement

Copilot code review: API management and review overview updates

You can now manage GitHub Copilot code review settings through the REST and GraphQL APIs, from enterprise policy down to individual repositories. Copilot’s review overview comment is now more compact, and this update includes fixes for billing, automatic reviews, and reliability. These updates are available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. 🔌 Manage settings and identify Copilot’s output through the API You can already request reviews, choose their effort level, and get…

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November 6, 2026Improvement

Copilot impact dashboard adds chat and VS Code agent usage

The Agent adoption chart in the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window, so you can see engagement across nine Copilot experiences. The adoption cohort called “Passive users” is now “Chat-first users”, which better describes who is in it. The enterprise and organization 28-day usage metrics reports include the same two features. This builds on feature engagement in the Copilot impact dashboard. What’s new Agent adoption chart: Adds Copilot…

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November 6, 2026Release

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — November 2

This week, Copilot comes to JetBrains Air and Xcode’s coding assistant, with updates to help you manage pull requests, settings, and agent sessions. GitHub Copilot app Set up Agent Merge directly from a pull request to have Copilot merge it when it’s ready. It now stays enabled while required checks or rules are pending. You can also check reviewer status, request additional reviews, and select comment text to quote it or discuss it with Copilot.…

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November 6, 2026Release

@GitHub in Slack and Teams is generally available and more

Turn conversations into code with @GitHub in Slack and Teams! Investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes, and open pull requests—all without leaving your conversation. What’s new Build and review together with Canvas in Teams Turn team discussions into working code. With Canvas, you can review implementation plans, code changes, and previews alongside your conversation. Continue the discussion with teammates, share feedback, and refine the implementation together—all without leaving Teams. Additional improvements Faster onboarding: Go from…

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November 6, 2026Improvement

Usage metrics API adds code review details and addressed rate

The enterprise and organization repository-level Copilot usage metrics reports now show what happens to Copilot code review feedback. A new copilot_code_review object on each repos-1-day row reports how many Copilot-reviewed pull requests merged without a later change request from a person and how many Copilot code review comments developers acted on. With these you can track an addressed rate per repository. What’s new total_comments_evaluated: The number of Copilot code review comments checked to see whether…

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November 6, 2026Improvement

Usage metrics API flags telemetry and version gaps

The Copilot usage metrics API now shows which users are missing client telemetry or are running IDE or extension versions below the usage metrics minimums. New per-user fields appear in enterprise and organization user reports, and daily affected-user counts appear in enterprise and organization reports. What’s new client_telemetry_present: Whether client telemetry was received for the user that day. false means Copilot saw the user’s activity, but no usage events arrived from their editor. usage_metrics_requirements: Lists…

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November 5, 2026Improvement

Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner

This update expands secret scanning’s detection coverage: New partner: SpaceX is now a secret scanning partner. New detector: GitHub now detects starlink_public_api_v2_secret. Upgraded detectors: Alibaba, AWS, Google, OpenVSX, Pydantic Services, and Tencent detectors include additional false-positive filtering. New secret scanning partners The following provider joined the secret scanning partnership program. When one of their secrets is found in a public repository, GitHub forwards it to the partner so they can revoke or rotate the credential…

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November 5, 2026Release

New pull request overview page in public preview

On a long pull request, checking what’s blocking often means scrolling past dozens of comments and timeline events just to reach the merge box. And once you’re there, you still need to work out what to do next. As people need to review more and more pull requests, time spent scrolling adds up. So we’ve begun to rethink the entire experience, beginning with addressing a familiar challenge: finding what’s blocking progress and determining what to…

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November 4, 2026Improvement

CodeQL 2.27.4 improves accuracy and query metadata

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.27.4 with query accuracy improvements across several languages, stronger security checks when you bundle or publish a pack, and corrections to query metadata. Query changes Java/Kotlin The java/log-injection query now recognizes additional sanitizers and sanitizer guards from the JDK, Apache Commons Lang and Text, Guava, OWASP Java Encoder, and Spring Framework. Path-injection…

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November 4, 2026Release

GitHub Copilot is now available in Xcode’s coding assistant

You can now work with GitHub Copilot directly in Xcode’s built-in coding assistant, bringing Copilot into your native Xcode workflow. The integration is now in public preview, available starting with Xcode 27.3 beta. This gives you another way to use Copilot in Xcode. The existing GitHub Copilot for Xcode extension remains a separate option, so you can choose the workflow that works best for you. Get started Download Xcode 27.3 beta from Apple Developer Downloads.…

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