Tooling7d ago
GitHub Octoverse 2026: agents start over 40% of pull requests, pushes hit 17.9 billion, and Copilot users tapped 47 models
On Oct 28 GitHub published its Octoverse 2026 report: developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with 34.3 billion commits and 1.3 billion merged pull requests (3.5 million a day). By September more than 40% of pull requests started with an agent draft, up from 17% in March; 55% of Copilot monthly active users use agentic features, and paid Copilot users used 47 distinct models in September.
Tooling34d ago
GitHub Agentic Workflows 0.90.1: standalone ledgers + replay; richer audit/threat artifacts; compile-time self-hosted runner enforcement
gh-aw v0.90.1 (2026-09-30T17:20:00Z) adds standalone safe-output-backed ledgers with replay projections (defaults preserved on shared-workflow import), richer audit/usage artifacts (ledger txs, threat-detection outcomes, experiment/evals, friction costs), narrowed add-labels + required-labels gating for assign-to-agent, compile-time self-hosted runner enforcement, kebab-case sandbox frontmatter, and Claude Code CLI pin 2.1.280.
Tooling41d ago
GitHub Copilot Code Review Major Upgrade: Custom Team Policy Rules and Granular PR Filters
GitHub (@github) announced a major update to Copilot Code Review via its official Changelog. Enterprise teams can now establish custom team policy rules, granular path filters, and risk thresholds to catch security defects and architecture violations while significantly reducing noise on non-critical files.
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