GitHub Actions: Input types for manual workflows

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November 10, 2021

You can now specify input types for manually triggered workflows allowing you to provide a better experience to users of your workflow. In addition to the default string type, we now support choice, boolean, and environment.

name: Mixed inputs

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      name:
        type: choice
        description: Who to greet
        options: 
        - monalisa
        - cschleiden
      message:
        required: true
      use-emoji:
        type: boolean
        description: Include 🎉🤣 emojis
      environment:
        type: environment

jobs:
  greet:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Send greeting
      run: echo "${{ github.event.inputs.message }} ${{ fromJSON('["", "🥳"]')[github.event.inputs.use-emoji == 'true'] }} ${{ github.event.inputs.name }}"

Learn more about workflow inputs.
For questions, visit the GitHub Actions community.
To see what's next for Actions, visit our public roadmap.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud self-service organization upgrade to an Enterprise Account

November 10, 2021

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GitHub Enterprise Cloud standalone organizations paying by invoice may now update to an enterprise account via a self-service flow.

Organization owners may navigate to the organization's billing page and click "Upgrade to Enterprise Account" to begin. There are no changes to licensing agreement or payment terms. In the new enterprise account, every organization owner will be granted the enterprise owner role.

Enterprise accounts allow you to create new organizations, manage policies and users, and provide a single point to manage and view multiple organizations. Enterprise accounts also grant access to features like audit log streaming, enterprise verified domains, and enable cross-organization collaboration via internal repositories.

Learn more about upgrading to an enterprise account.

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CodeQL code scanning now recognizes more Java and JavaScript libraries and frameworks

November 10, 2021

We’ve improved the depth of CodeQL's analysis by adding support for more libraries and frameworks and increasing the coverage of our existing library and framework models. JavaScript analysis now supports most common templating languages, and Java now covers more than three times the endpoints of previous CodeQL versions. As a result, CodeQL can now detect even more potential sources of untrusted user data, steps through which that data flows, and potentially dangerous sinks in which this data could end up. This results in an overall improvement of the quality of the code scanning alerts.

We carefully choose and prioritize the libraries and frameworks supported by CodeQL based on their popularity and through user feedback. These improvements are now available to users of CodeQL code scanning on GitHub.com, and will also be available in the next release of GitHub Enterprise Server (3.3).