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5 releases

GitHub Actions

Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration

The Ubuntu 26.04 runner image for GitHub Actions is now out of public preview and fully supported for production workflows on both x64 and arm64. As part of this release, the ubuntu-latest label will migrate to Ubuntu 26.04, giving you the latest supported Ubuntu release by default.

GASep 17

GitHub Copilot

Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API

GitHub Copilot expands existing CLI report coverage with agentic activity metrics for skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands, and plugins. What’s new The fields appear in enterprise and organization per-user and aggregate 1-day reports, per-user 28-day reports, and the day_totals entries in aggregate 28-day reports.

UpdateSep 17

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Actions changelog github.blog	github.blog	RSS
Changelog github.blog	github.blog	RSS
Copilot changelog github.blog	github.blog	RSS
Copilot CLI releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Desktop release notes desktop.github.com	desktop.github.com	None
Enterprise Server release notes docs.github.com	docs.github.com	None
GitHub CLI releases github.com	github.com	RSS
Security changelog github.blog	github.blog	RSS