While making your source code available in a public GitHub repository is awesome, it's important to be sure you don't accidentally commit your passwords, secrets, or anything else that other…
While making your source code available in a public GitHub repository is awesome, it’s important to be sure you don’t accidentally commit your passwords, secrets, or anything else that other people shouldn’t know.
Starting today you can commit more confidently, knowing that we will email you if you push one of your OAuth Access Tokens to any public repository with a git push command. As an extra bonus, we’ll also revoke your token so it can’t be used to perform any unauthorized actions on your behalf.
For more tips on keeping your account secure, see “Keeping your SSH keys and application access tokens safe” in GitHub Help.
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more.
This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.
Neil Matatall 
