GitHub Code Quality license estimate in public preview

PreviewJul 13, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

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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GitHub Advanced SecurityJul 13, 2026

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Code scanning shows AI security detections on pull requests

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GitHub Advanced SecurityJul 15, 2026

Improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring

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GitHub Advanced SecurityJul 10, 2026

CodeQL 2.26.0 adds Kotlin 2.4.0 support and AI prompt injection detection

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Clearer names for secret scanning detector types

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GitHub Advanced SecurityJul 9, 2026

Organization-level targeting for GitHub Code Quality

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