Previously, the new product worked in test mode (since May 2020), but now it has become available to all users, both paid and free.

“The new feature helps preventing products from vulnerabilities by analyzing every pull request, commit and merge, recognizing vulnerable code as soon as it is created”, – says ZDNet with a link to the GitHub developers.

If vulnerabilities are found, the scanner will offer the developer to revise his code.

Code Scanning runs on top of CodeQL, a technology that GitHub has integrated into its platform [...]