In 2016, GitHub introduced commit squashing when merging a pull request. Then in 2018, we added support for commit co-authors. Today, we’re combining these features to improve the squash-and-merge experience.
Before today, whoever opened the pull request became the sole author of the squash commit. Now, we will automatically credit every commit author in the pull request as a co-author on the squash commit.
The GitHub Actions Runner is now open sourced. File issues and contribute to one of the most important components of GitHub Actions directly at:
https://github.com/actions/runner
The Runner is the application that runs a job from a GitHub Actions workflow. Jobs can be run in GitHub’s hosted virtual environments, or in your own self-hosted environment. Learn more about using self-hosted runners with your workflows here.
We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include:
You can find more information in the docs. Please note that we plan to pause updates until January 2020.