And finally, my fave of the day: we brought the user role labels to the PRs list view. These respect org membership visibility, and some, like first-time contributor, only show to maintainers so you can prioritize bringing new contributors into the fold. github.blog/changelog/2026…
Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now
I would like to make my apologies for defending M$, but I must from time to time.
I have to put respect on github for handling the amount of shit code that has been added over the last 3 months.
literally 10s of billions of lines of code that will never see the light of a CPU
🆕 Issues semantic search is now GA with API support
Really useful particularly if an agent needs to search over GitHub issues and can lift coding agent quality when choosing to use semantic
Check it out and let us know what you think
New GitHub Issues search today!
Results have been much better internally in testing and excited for everyone to be able to use it.
A couple other issues ships in the queue for next week too from the highly request list 👀
