{"type":"post","id":"updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197","slug":"updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197","title":"Updates to GitHub secret scanning","description":"GitHub has updated Secret Scanning with broader support for revoking encoded GitHub tokens, several API and webhook corrections, and a scheduled audit-log field change on November 12, 2026.","retrieval_nugget":"GitHub has updated Secret Scanning with broader support for revoking encoded GitHub tokens, several API and webhook corrections, and a scheduled audit-log field change on November 12, 2026. Teams operating security automations should treat the audit-log migration as a compatibility task, while the token changes improve remediation coverage for secrets found in private repositories.","published_at":"2026-10-27","updated_at":"2026-10-27","record_date":"2026-10-27","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["github"],"entities":["GitHub","GitHub Secret Scanning","GitHub REST API","GitHub Apps"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"GitHub’s October 20 changelog adds product and API changes: encoded-token revocation, webhook/API metadata fixes, and a November 12 audit-log field migration.","prior_refs":["memory:20b29765-27bf-8e72-a1b2-cfad36341d58","memory:946bb361-44bc-8caa-a65c-ffc20eb20938","memory:b9cba69a-7730-8eb0-a9be-ef4e784a8141"],"source_url":"https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-20-updates-to-github-secret-scanning","source_urls":["https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-20-updates-to-github-secret-scanning"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/updates-to-github-secret-scanning-8b5197.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/github/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/github/","title":"Github","reason":"Explore the github topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/github.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/github.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}