Copilot Content Exclusions Feature Update

Following our previous communication dated November 8, 2023, regarding the temporary rollback of the Copilot content exclusions feature, we are pleased to announce the re-deployment of this feature with significant enhancements. The rollout will be progressive during the next 10 days as we monitor the behaviour.

With Content Exclusion, GitHub Copilot Business customers will be able to prevent specified files or repositories from being used to inform code completion suggestions made by GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot will not be available in excluded files. Organization administrators or repository owners can choose which files or repositories are excluded. Learn more.

Overview of the Issue

Our team observed a critical issue where clients were incorrectly blocked from using Copilot due to the initial implementation of content exclusions. This was primarily caused by errors in fetching content exclusion policies from the client, leading to a temporary suspension of the feature.

Actions Undertaken

In response to this, our engineering team undertook a comprehensive review and rectification process. The issues identified in the client's code were addressed, and additional verifications were implemented on both server and client sides to prevent recurrence.

New Enhancements in the Re-deployed Feature

  • Performance Update: We have optimized the performance of the content exclusions feature, ensuring minimal impact on the user experience.
  • Extended Coverage: The feature now supports all our official Integrated Development Environments: Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio Code, and Vim/Neovim.

Current Status

  • Users with pre-existing content exclusion configurations will experience no change.
  • New and returning users can now utilize the enhanced feature across all supported IDEs.

Next Steps

We are closely monitoring the performance and user feedback post-deployment. The support for Copilot Chat is also in progress and will be part of the General Availability.

Join the Discussion

We value your feedback and encourage you to participate in the discussion within the GitHub Community.

GitHub Actions – Repository Actions Runners List is now generally available

The Repository Actions Runners List is now generally available. With the Repository Actions Runnners List you can view all available runners right within the Actions tab, without needing access to repository or organization settings.

The runner types listed include Standard GitHub-hosted, Larger GitHub-hosted, Self-hosted, and Scale-sets.

Benefits of using the Repository Actions Runners List:

  • Visibility into all GitHub Actions runners: Users with repo:write access can now view which runner options are available for use within a repository, without needing to contact a Repo admin or an Organization owner to find runner label names.
  • Faster access to runner labels: Conveniently view and copy labels for all runners, making it straightforward to identify the type of runner you need and use it in a workflow.

To access the Repository Actions Runners List:

  1. Navigate to the main page of the repository.
  2. Click the "Actions" tab under your repository name.
  3. Under the "Management" section in the left sidebar, click on "Runners".
  4. Explore available runners within a repository and copy runner labels to use them in YAML workflow files.

Note: Enterprise and Organization owners can also create new runners from this page from the "New runner" button.
Repository Actions Runners List

This feature is available to users with:

  • Free and Pro Personal Accounts
  • Organizations on a Free Plan
  • Organizations on a Team Plan
  • Enterprises on a GitHub Enterprise Cloud plan (including Enterprise Managed Users)

Note: This feature is not available to users in Organizations on the GitHub Enterprise Server or Legacy plans.

If you have any feedback to help improve this experience, be sure to post it on our GitHub Community Discussion.

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Codespaces host image upgrade

GitHub Codespaces recently promoted the current beta host image configuration to stable as part of our regular maintenance for our hosts. This change includes multiple minor version updates, as well as major version updates to the Docker engine and Docker Compose packages installed on the host. This will not impact most development container configurations.

For more details about the specific changes, see our documentation regarding host image configurations here.

If you have any issues, please contact support.

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