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Expiration options for personal access tokens

You can now set an expiration date on your new and existing personal access tokens.

Setting an expiration date on personal access tokens is highly recommended as this helps keep your information secure. GitHub will send you an email when it's time to renew a token that's about to expire. Tokens that have expired can be regenerated, giving you a duplicate token with the same properties as the original.

When using a personal access token with the GitHub API, you'll see a new response header, GitHub-Authentication-Token-Expiration, indicating the token's expiration date. You can use this in scripts, for example to log a warning message as the expiration date approaches.

Learn more about personal access tokens and how to use them.

Improvements to the code scanning branch filter

We have shipped improvements to the code scanning alerts branch filter! These changes make it clearer which code scanning alerts are being displayed on the alerts page.

By default, the code scanning alerts are filtered to show alerts for the default branch of the repository only. You can use the branch filter to display the alerts on any of the non-default branches. Any branch filter that has been applied is shown in the search bar.

We have simplified the search syntax to the format branch: You can use this syntax multiple times in the search bar to filter on multiple branches. The previous syntax ref:refs/heads/[branch name] is still supported, so any saved URLs will continue to work.

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GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Go modules

In May we announced that GitHub Advisory Database now includes Go advisories. Today we're excited to announce that all of GitHub's supply chain security features are available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.

Learn how each of GitHub’s supply chain security features works with Go modules on the GitHub blog.

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