Stage-only npm tokens for safer automation

UpdateSep 18, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

You can now select Read and write (stage only) when creating an npm granular access token. This lets your automated workflows stage package versions for review without giving the token permission to publish new versions directly to the npm registry. Your workflow uses npm stage publish to submit a version.

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More GitHub Advanced Security releases

GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 18, 2026

Manage the code coverage ruleset condition with the REST API

You can now use the generally available REST API to manage the Restrict code coverage repository ruleset option, in addition to the existing UI support. This ruleset lets you enforce a minimum code coverage percentage based on line coverage or set a maximum tolerable coverage drop for a pull request.

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 16, 2026

Code scanning AI Scan no longer requires CodeQL default setup

You can now use AI Scan for pull requests to find security vulnerabilities, even when CodeQL default setup isn’t enabled on a repository. Previously, AI Scan for pull requests only ran on repositories where CodeQL default setup was configured.

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 21, 2026

GitHub Enterprise adds credential inventory exports

Enterprise owners can now export a complete inventory of every credential that can access their enterprise (e.g., SSH keys, classic and fine-grained personal access tokens, OAuth App access tokens, and GitHub App user-to-server and installation tokens).

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 15, 2026

Enforce GitHub Advanced Security configurations

Enterprise administrators can now enforce GitHub Advanced Security configurations across their organizations. This prevents both organization and repository administrators from overriding settings defined at the enterprise level, helping security and compliance teams apply consistent policies across their enterprise.

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 22, 2026

Security improvements for SSH

We’re removing several SSH algorithms, adding a new algorithm, and requiring larger RSA SSH keys to improve security. The changes are as follows: We’re removing the ability to use RSA keys using SHA-1 in SSH (i.e., the ssh-rsa signature type, including ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com certificates using SHA-1).

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 22, 2026

Deprecation notice: All-platform CodeQL bundle

Starting with CodeQL CLI 2.27.0 , the all-platform CodeQL bundle (i.e., codeql-bundle.tar.gz and codeql-bundle.tar.zst ), which includes the binaries for all supported platforms up to this release, is marked as deprecated. In mid-March 2027, we will remove the all-platform CodeQL bundle.

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 10, 2026

AI Scan for pull request APIs in public preview

You can now manage GitHub code scanning’s AI Scan for pull request enablement with REST API endpoints at the organization and repository levels. This public preview gives teams a programmatic way to roll out AI-powered security detections for pull requests across select repositories without manually configuring each setting in the GitHub UI.

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GitHub Advanced SecuritySep 9, 2026

npm extends recovery-code security holds to all accounts

npm now places a temporary 72-hour security hold on any account after a successful recovery-code sign-in, extending a protection that previously applied only to high-impact accounts. This change applies to all npm accounts. During the hold, publishing and other security-sensitive writes, including creating access tokens, are paused.

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Databricks Databricks AppsSep 18, 2026

Databricks Apps telemetry is now generally available

Configuring telemetry for your Databricks apps is now generally available. Databricks Apps telemetry collects traces, logs, and metrics and persists them to Unity Catalog tables using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) protocol.

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Databricks LakebaseSep 18, 2026

Lakebase Search is generally available

Lakebase Search is now generally available. It brings scalable vector and keyword search to Lakebase projects through two Postgres extensions, so you can run semantic and exact-term search in a single database without a separate search stack: lakebase_vector adds the lakebase_ann index type for approximate nearest-neighbor vector search.

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Snowflake SnowflakeSep 18, 2026

Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability)

With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of partition evolution for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables. You can now change a table's partition specification after you create the table by adding, dropping, or replacing partition fields, without rewriting existing data.

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Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformSep 18, 2026

xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available

Grok 4.6 is now generally available (GA) and available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.

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Google Cloud Gemini EnterpriseSep 18, 2026

Gemini Enterprise: Support for new actions (Public Preview)

Support for new actions is available in Public Preview for the following data stores: Microsoft OneDrive : Copy folder, move file, move folder, rename file, rename folder, share file or folder, and update file properties. Microsoft Outlook : Create calendar, RSVP to event, and update calendar.

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Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformSep 18, 2026

Agent Platform SDK for Python version 2.0.1 is available

Version 2.0.1 of the Agent Platform SDK for Python ( google-cloud-agentplatform ) is now available. This release migrates generative AI modules to the Google Gen AI SDK, decouples the agent surface from google-cloud-aiplatform into a dedicated package, and introduces restructured namespaces.

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