
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact:
And that’s it — you now have a website. If you’re already familiar with GitHub Pages, you may be interested to know that behind the scenes, we’re now doing a few things to simplify the publishing experience and bring it more in line with what you may expect from authoring Markdown content elsewhere on GitHub:
---
s) to each file.index.md
(or index.html
), not dissimilar from when you browse to a repository on GitHub.page
layout, or the default
layout, if the page
layout doesn’t exist.These improvements should allow you to quickly and easily publish your first (or 100th) website with just a few clicks, or to document your software project by simply adding Markdown files to a /docs
folder within your repository. Of course, you can continue to control the look and feel by opting in to additional customizations (such as overriding the default theme with your own layouts or styles).
While these changes shouldn’t affect how most existing sites build, there are two potential gotchas for some more advanced Jekyll users:
for page in site.pages
), you may find that there are now additional pages (such as the README of a vendored dependency) in that list. You can explicitly exclude these files with your config file’s exclude
directive.null
.And if for any reason you don’t want these features, you can disable them by adding a .nojekyll
file to your site’s root directory.
So that the GitHub Pages build process can be as transparent and customizable as possible, all the above features are implemented as open source Jekyll plugins, namely Jekyll Optional Front Matter, Jekyll README Index, Jekyll Default Layout, and Jekyll Titles from Headings.
Again, these changes shouldn’t affect how most existing sites build (although you can safely begin to use these features), but if you have any questions, please get in touch with us.
Happy three-step publishing!