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Docker Hub gets OIDC federation for GitHub Actions, retiring the PAT-in-a-secret pattern

Docker has added OpenID Connect authentication for GitHub Actions on Team, Business and Docker Hardened Images plans, so workflows push and pull images with a short-lived per-run token instead of a stored Personal Access Token. It closes off one of the last static credentials still sitting in most Actions repos.

Aug 1, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

GitHub starts watching the whole public site for your leaked secrets

GitHub is previewing public monitoring for enterprise secret scanning: real-time detection across all of public github.com, with leaks attributed back to your organisation. Useful, and a preview, so read the small print.

Jul 6, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Copilot CLI drops the PAT requirement inside GitHub Actions

GitHub says Copilot CLI, when invoked from a GitHub Actions workflow, will now accept the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. That retires one of the last long-lived personal tokens teams were carrying just to script Copilot from CI.

Jul 4, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Incident response

HCP Vault Dedicated opens cluster DR drills, by support ticket only

HashiCorp put cluster disaster recovery for HCP Vault Dedicated into public preview, giving teams a way to simulate cluster-level failures and prove their failover path. The drill is gated through HashiCorp support, not the customer's own runbook.

Jun 28, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Security & supply chain

Vault wants your AI agents to ask permission, one request at a time

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise has put a new authorization model for AI agents into public preview, built on OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests so agents must declare what they want on every call instead of inheriting long-lived secrets. For pipelines that now host coding agents, it changes who is allowed to do what at runtime.

Jun 27, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Dependabot can finally pull from private GitHub Packages without a PAT

GitHub gave Dependabot its own GITHUB_TOKEN access to private GitHub Packages and GHCR, retiring one of the most awkward credentials in any CI setup. For pipeline owners, that closes a quiet but persistent rotation tax.

Jun 24, 2026 · Priya Nair Security & supply chain

Vault learns to speak SPIFFE, and your pipeline's static token is on notice

HashiCorp wired SPIFFE into Vault as both an auth method and a secrets engine, positioning Vault as a workload-identity broker that sits next to SPIRE rather than replacing it. For CI/CD that means one more reason the long-lived bearer token in your job secrets is harder to defend by the day.

Jun 17, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

GitHub Agentic Workflows drop personal access tokens for the built-in Actions token

Agentic workflows on GitHub can now authenticate with the ephemeral GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a long-lived personal access token. It is a quiet credential-hygiene win that closes one of the messier blast radii in agent-driven CI.

Jun 15, 2026 · Tomás Vega