Improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring

UpdateJul 15, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring: Resend is now a GitHub secret scanning partner. Secret scanning now detects new secret types from APIclub and Resend. Secret scanning now blocks VolcEngine secrets with push protection by default.

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