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AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI

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You can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the GitHub REST API. This feature is available for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Toggle the AI credit pool on when you create or edit a cost center.

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OIDC federated authentication (Public Preview)

OpenID Connect (OIDC) security integrations for federated single sign-on (SSO) are available in Public Preview. Multiple OIDC integrations, or OIDC alongside an existing SAML2 integration, require identifier-first login . Without identifier-first login, only one SSO integration (SAML2 or OIDC) can be ENABLED=TRUE at a time.

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DML into frozen regions of dynamic tables (General availability)

You can now use DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, DELETE) to modify rows directly in the frozen region of a dynamic table. This enables use cases such as GDPR-required row deletions or correcting specific records without triggering a full refresh of the active region. For more information, see DML into a frozen region .

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Copilot users can now see AI credits used per billing cycle

Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users can now see how many AI credits they’ve used this billing cycle, even without an individual budget. Find this on your GitHub Copilot usage page in your GitHub settings. Previously, the page showed usage only as a percentage of a budget.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable reasoning effort and support for parallel tool use across complex workflows.

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New Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard

We’ve released a new Copilot metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners. This dashboard helps you tell a deeper Copilot impact story by sharing not just who is active, but how they’re using Copilot.

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Copilot cloud agent for Linear is now generally available

You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent , our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents and open a draft pull request. Work independently in its own ephemeral development environment, powered by GitHub Actions.

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GitHub MCP Server supports the next MCP specification

The MCP protocol is going stateless on 28th July 2026, and the GitHub MCP Server supports the latest spec ahead of the official release. What’s changing The new stateless core means MCP deployments are now easy to scale. Extensions unlock innovation (e.g., MCP apps and Enterprise Managed Auth, both of which are already supported by VS Code).

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GitHub Mobile: Fix failing Actions checks with Copilot cloud agent

Now when a GitHub Actions check fails on your pull request, you can ask Copilot coding agent to investigate and directly fix the problem from GitHub Mobile. From the failed check, select Fix with Copilot to start the process. Copilot opens a new pull request on top of your existing pull request, analyzes the failing check, and attempts to implement a fix.

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