Releasesby GlyphMigrate from GitLab to GitHub with GitHub Enterprise Importer
Migrations from gitlab.com and GitLab Self-Managed to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) are now generally available. You can now self-serve these migrations using GEI and the gh gl2gh command-line extension.
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BigQuery cross-cloud connections query AWS, Azure and Salesforce in preview
Cross-cloud connections query data in AWS, Azure and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery regions, support more BigQuery features and are more cost efficient than BigQuery Omni connections.
BigQuery JDBC driver adds OpenTelemetry tracing and logging
The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports OpenTelemetry for tracing and logging, with automatic exports to Google Cloud Observability, helping monitor and troubleshoot database interactions. It is generally available.
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables (Public preview)
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables are now available in public preview. Inline Stored Procedures are a new type of Snowflake stored procedure designed for operational workloads on hybrid tables.
Organization Hub (General availability)
The Insights page under Organization Hub presents interactive tiles that show trends, alerts, and summary data for your entire organization. The feature is now generally available to customers who have ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views enabled, and is no longer in Preview .
AI Agents Inventory in the Trust Center AI Security tab (Preview)
With this preview release, the AI Security tab in the Trust Center includes an AI Agents Inventory section. This section provides a consolidated inventory of the Cortex Agents in your account, filtered by one or more categories, so that you can identify which agents to assess or investigate for better governance and security posture.
Trust Center AI Security scanner package and tab (General availability)
The AI Security scanner package and the AI Security tab in the Trust Center are now generally available. Use them to monitor AI-related configurations and usage in your account, and to review the security posture of AI workloads that use Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, or Cortex Code from a single dashboard.
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Triage role can bypass issue creation restrictions
If your repository restricts issue creation to collaborators only, users with the triage role can now create issues. Previously, the restricted setting only allowed users with write access to create issues. With this update, trusted contributors with the triage role are also included.
Set pull request limits at the organization level
You can now set pull request limits at the organization level. Pull request limits let you define how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at one time. If a user reaches that limit, they must close or merge an existing pull request before opening another.
Enterprises can now install third-party GitHub Apps
Enterprise owners can now install public GitHub Apps created outside their enterprise on their enterprise account. This allows third-party integrators to build apps for enterprise management scenarios. Enterprise installations grant access to the enterprise account itself; they do not grant access to organizations or repositories in the enterprise.
“Relates to” issue relationship in public preview and multi-select fields is generally available
GitHub is making it easier to connect related work and manage multiple field values across issues and projects. Connect related issues The new “Relates to” issue relationship is available in public preview. You can connect two issues without implying that one blocks, duplicates, contains, or closes the other.
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can independently review and check each pull request, then merge everything together in one click.
GitHub billing in India now supports automatic recurring payments
Customers in India can now use eligible saved credit cards for automatic recurring payments on monthly and annual GitHub bills. This update uses a payment mandate, also known in the payments industry as an electronic mandate, to authorize future charges in line with Reserve Bank of India requirements.
Custom thread subscriptions are being deprecated
Update (August 14, 2026): Pausing the custom thread subscriptions deprecation We’re pausing the planned deprecation of custom thread subscriptions. Your feedback highlighted how integral this feature is to many developers’ notification workflows.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.22 is now available and introduces new capabilities across the platform. Here are a few highlights in the 3.22 release: Administrators can configure Copilot CLI to work with GHES for enterprises that operate in disconnected or air-gapped environments without connectivity to GitHub Cloud.