--- title: "Legacy GitHub app in Teams retirement: 2026-11-16 | Harbyn" description: "Legacy GitHub app in Teams retirement, effective Nov 16, 2026." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-23-turn-notifications-into-code-with-github-copilot-in-teams-2" last-updated: 2026-10-25 --- # Legacy GitHub app in Teams retirement Markdown version of . Retirement - GitHub. high severity. Announced. Upcoming. The legacy GitHub app in Teams will be renamed “GitHub (deprecated)” and retired on November 16. Users must install the consolidated GitHub app to continue using Copilot in Teams. 22 days left: the deadline is Nov 16, 2026. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [GitHub](https://harbyn.com/vendors/github.md) | | Kind | Retirement | | Severity | high | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Oct 23, 2026 | | Effective | Nov 16, 2026 | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 25, 2026 | | Lead time | 22 days of warning | | Vendor page | | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses GitHub, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (changelog, fetched 2026-10-25 11:20 UTC, sha256 `05640f3663cb7772f757437f5280e3824b6b5f015d9342da5cf1015d2c990a6f`) ## Related changes ### More from GitHub - [Custom names in Copilot usage metrics API](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-22-custom-skills-agents-and-mcp-servers-in-usage-metrics-api.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 22, 2026) - [Global default policy for generally available Copilot features](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-22-global-default-for-copilot-features-generally-available.md) (Behavior change, effective Oct 22, 2026) - [New GitHub Actions blob storage hosts added to the meta API](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-22-meta-api-endpoints-updated-for-actions-blob-storage.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 22, 2026) - [Dismissal-request webhooks include request number](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-20-updates-to-github-secret-scanning.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 20, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [OpenRouter: arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026) - [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)