Rule insights for organizations in public preview
The rule insights dashboard is now in public preview at the organization level. You get a visual, high-level view of how GitHub evaluates and enforces your GitHub repository rulesets, so you can spot trends and report on governance without stitching data together by hand.
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Define business concepts with Pages (Beta)
You can now use Pages to give business terms, acronyms, and KPIs a single governed definition. Part of Unity Catalog semantics , Pages form the human-modeled layer of the Genie Ontology that Genie One draws on to ground its answers. See Pages .
Custom trace views in the MLflow trace explorer are in Beta
You can now build custom trace views in the Databricks MLflow trace explorer. Describe the layout you want in plain language, and Genie generates a reusable view that surfaces the trace fields, metrics, and feedback controls most relevant to your review workflow. See Build a custom trace view .
Google Search Console connector is available in Beta
The managed Google Search Console connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Use it to ingest search performance data, site metadata, and sitemap information from Google Search Console into Databricks.
Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect (Beta)
You can now ingest data from Glean into Databricks using the managed Glean connector in Lakeflow Connect. The connector ingests company-wide usage insights for search, Assistant, and agents, along with the shortcuts (go links) defined in your Glean deployment, using a Glean Client API token. This feature is in Beta . See Glean connector .
Amplitude connector (Beta)
The Amplitude connector in Lakeflow Connect is now in Beta. Ingest product analytics event data along with event, cohort, and annotation metadata from Amplitude. See Amplitude connector .
Gemini Enterprise: GitHub connector with data federation
The GitHub connector with data federation is generally available (GA) in Gemini Enterprise. The connector lets you search and act on GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests directly from the Gemini Enterprise agent, with tool actions such as creating branches, adding issue comments, merging pull requests, and pushing files.
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Block users from comments in personal repositories
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.
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.
Automatically migrate branch protection rules to repository rulesets
You can now convert your existing branch protection rules to repository rulesets directly from your repository settings. This helps you migrate to GitHub’s more flexible and scalable policy framework without manually recreating each rule.
Multiple redirect URIs and token refresh for OAuth apps
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.
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.
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.