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GitHub Mitigated dismissal reason and the REST API enum gap, August 2026

Engineering · Aug 21, 2026 · 13 min read

GitHub shipped a Mitigated dismissal reason on 20 August 2026 that its own REST API cannot set

GitHub shipped three application-security changes on 20 August 2026. The new Mitigated dismissal reason is absent from the REST API enum and from the documentation page the changelog links to, and admins are told

Manu Shukla

#GitHub #code scanning #appsec

Graphic showing a staged GitHub code scanning rollout across 500 repositories with one central CodeQL configuration

Engineering · Aug 5, 2026 · 14 min read

GitHub code scanning across 500 repos: a 2026 rollout that avoids alert overload

Turning code scanning on across a large estate is one afternoon of work and six months of alert triage. A new repository property changes the sequence, and the cost is per active committer, not per repository.

Manu Shukla

#GitHub #CodeQL #code scanning