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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 refresh tokens. OAuth apps can have multiple redirect URIs. Both GitHub Apps and OAuth apps can enable wildcard matching for redirect URIs if needed. OAuth apps can now request a short-lived token during the user authentication flow.

Home / AI & ML / GitHub Copilot See how four GitHub Agent Apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub. August 14, 2026 | 4 minutes Share: How many tabs do you have open alongside your pull request? Imagine picking up a new issue in your product’s free-trial onboarding flow: make the “invite your teammates” step optional. Support keeps flagging the step as a friction point as signups increase. Quick win, right?

Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed strong results across terminal-based coding tasks in Visual Studio Code and Copilot CLI. It performed especially well on longer-horizon tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use, making it a strong fit for complex coding workflows. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing.

From new models and portable plugins to smoother agent workflows, this week’s updates make GitHub Copilot more flexible across editors, the command line, and the Copilot app. Kimi K3 is rolling out to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is rolling out in GitHub Copilot with native image understanding and improvements to coding quality, instruction following, tool use, and performance.

Home / News & insights / Company news The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before August 19 to save $300. August 13, 2026 | 7 minutes Share: The GitHub Universe 2026 schedule just dropped, and it’s full of exciting sessions, demos, and panels covering the potential of AI-powered development. If you haven’t registered yet, here’s what you need to know.

GitHub now uses package registries like npmjs.org and PyPI to determine license information for software components in the dependency graph. This improves the accuracy and completeness of the licenses shown in dependency insights, software bills of materials (SBOMs), the open source license compliance feature in GitHub Advanced Security, and the dependency review action. Previously, the primary source of license information on GitHub was the ClearlyDefined service.

You can now block or unblock users directly from comments on pull requests and issues in repositories owned by personal GitHub accounts. To block or unblock a user: Open the More menu on their comment. Select Block user or Unblock user. Optionally add a private note explaining why you’re blocking the user. Confirm your selection. This shortcut makes it faster for maintainers to manage spam and unwanted activity without leaving the pull request or issue.

Home / Open Source / Maintainers See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security. August 13, 2026 | 11 minutes Share: AI is changing the pace of open source development and the security challenges that come with it.

Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. From our early testing, the model has made improvements in web and app development and agentic coding workflows over it’s previous version. The model also delivers improvements in code quality, final-output presentation, codebase research, and verification during complex coding tasks. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing.

Home / News & insights / Company news In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. August 12, 2026 | 13 minutes Share: The GitHub Actions incident on Thursday, August 6, was unacceptable in both its impact and particularity of its duration. Availability continues to be our top priority across all of GitHub. However, with this incident, we have fallen short of our commitments to you.