On February 15th, GitHub Actions will remove support for referencing actions using the shortened version of a git commit SHA. This may cause some workflows in your repository to break. To fix these workflows, you will need to update the action reference to use the full commit SHA.
For example, if your workflow references actions/checkout@5a4ac90, you should change it to actions/checkout@5a4ac9002d0be2fb38bd78e4b4dbde5606d7042f. You can find the full commit SHA in the referenced action's repository.
This change is being made to align product functionality with our published security guidance
Dependabot version updates now support pip-compile 5.5.0.
Note that with the version update of pip-compile from 5.4.0 to 5.5.0, the formatting of "via" annotations has changed to one dependency per line. This will cause Dependabot to rewrite your requirements.txt file the first time you use the new version.
To enable version updates, check in a dependabot.yml file with the specified package-ecosystem.
You can now rename any branch, including the default branch, from the web.
If you've been waiting to rename your default branch from master to main, we now recommend doing so using this feature.
When a branch is renamed:
Note: admin permissions are required to rename the default branch, but write permissions are sufficient to rename other branches.
To help make the change as seamless as possible for users:
This change is one of many changes GitHub is making to support projects and maintainers that want to rename their default branch. Branch names will not change unless the maintainer explicitly makes the change, however this new rename functionality should dramatically reduce the disruption to projects who do want to change branch names. To learn more about the change we've made, see github/renaming.
To learn more, see Renaming a branch