
Powered by CodeQL, Code Scanning checks your code for potential security vulnerabilities. Last, but definitely not the least, are a couple of security-centric features called Code Scanning and Secret Scanning. Discussions is currently in beta testing with a few open source communities, but GitHub says it will available to other projects soon. While GitHub already allowed users to have conversations through issues and pull requests, the new feature is meant to enable unstructured threaded conversations. Of course, GitHub is now owned by Microsoft after a controversial acquisition in 2018, so it is only to be expected that the two will be sharing the same underlying technology for their cloud-based IDE service(s).Īlongside Codespaces, GitHub also announced Discussions, which, as its name suggests, is a discussion forum to talk about anything related to a given project.


It is worth noting here that the cloud version of VS Code was itself renamed to Visual Studio Codespaces last week, which suggests that GitHub is now integrating those exact same tools with its service under a very similar name.
