GitHub Enhancements Focus on AI, Security

• Updates to GitHub Copilot let customers train the AI coding assistant on their private repositories so that it can further speed developer work.
• New advanced GitHub Copilot features for enterprise development teams will require purchasing a more expensive tier of the assistant.
• Other updates improve tools that help customers avoid security vulnerabilities in their code.

GitHub offers an application life-cycle environment with developer productivity tools for all types of software development, including private and public (open source) projects. It is delivered as a cloud service and as stand-alone software that can be self-hosted on premises. Recent enhancements could help organizations speed developer tasks using AI and produce code with fewer security vulnerabilities.

Overview

GitHub is a focal point of Microsoft’s development tool investments and now overshadows some of the company’s traditional offerings, such as Azure DevOps.

GitHub is available as a hosted service and as privately hostable software with the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) product. The server offering could allow certain organizations to use GitHub functionality while meeting security and data residency requirements that are not possible when using the externally hosted GitHub service.