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Secret scanning extended metadata and multipart validation

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To help you understand ownership and impact of a leaked secret, GitHub secret scanning surfaces enriched metadata for supported secret types. Extended metadata checks are now generally available, including support for multipart validators with supplementary metadata. What’s new?

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npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation

npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest . This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June , and it’s also where we begin a deprecation of the most sensitive uses of 2FA-bypass granular access tokens (GATs).

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Organization-level targeting for GitHub Code Quality

Organization owners can now target a subset of repositories when enabling or disabling GitHub Code Quality, rather than applying it to every repository at once. This gives you more granular control on where you enable or disable Code Quality across your organization.

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CodeQL 2.26.0 adds Kotlin 2.4.0 support and AI prompt injection detection

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning , which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.26.0 , which adds support for Kotlin 2.4.0, introduces a JavaScript and TypeScript query for system prompt injection, and improves analysis accuracy across multiple languages.

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Secret scanning public monitoring for enterprises

GitHub is committed to empowering the developer community by helping organizations recognize and address the risks of secret leaks wherever they happen. We believe every enterprise should know the moment its secrets leak in public, no matter where it happens on GitHub.

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Manage secret scanning custom patterns via REST API

Starting today, security teams can create, edit, and manage secret scanning custom patterns with the REST API. What’s new The following endpoints are generally available: GET .../secret-scanning/custom-patterns list patterns POST .../secret-scanning/custom-patterns create patterns PATCH .../secret-scanning/custom-patterns/{id} update patterns DELETE...

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GitHub Code Quality license estimate in public preview

You can now see the number of active committers on repositories using GitHub Code Quality across your enterprise, giving you an estimate of your Code Quality license cost before it becomes a paid product on July 20, 2026. Code Quality is free during the public preview, so this usage isn’t billed today.

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