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Mermaid, topoJSON, geoJSON, and ASCII STL Diagrams Are Now Supported in Markdown and as Files

In addition to mermaid diagrams, we now allow users to render maps directly in markdown using fenced code blocks with the geojson or topojson syntax, and embed STL 3D renders using stl syntax.

Additionally, these diagrams are supported as files using their own extensions:

content type supported extensions
mermaid .mermaid, .mmd
geoJSON .geojson, .json
topoJSON .topojson, .json
STL .stl

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For more information about using diagrams on GitHub, see Creating diagrams in the GitHub documentation

For more information about non-code filetypes on GitHub, see Working with non-code files

geoJSON

### Here's a geoJSON map in markdown

```geojson
{
  "type": "Polygon",
  "coordinates": [
      [
          [-90,30],
          [-90,35],
          [-90,35],
          [-85,35],
          [-85,30]
      ]
  ]
}
```

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topoJSON

### Here's a topoJSON map in markdown

```topojson
 {"type":"Topology","transform":{"scale":[0.003589294092944858,0.0005371535195261037],"translate":[-179.1473400003406,17.67439566600018]},"objects":{"counties":   {"type":"GeometryCollection","geometries":[{"type":"MultiPolygon","arcs":[[[0,1,2,3]]],"id":53073},{"type":"Polygon","arcs":[[4,5,6,7,8,9]],"id":30105},{"type":"Polygon","arcs": [[10,11,12,1
 ...
```

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STL

### Here's an STL 3D render in markdown

```stl
solid cube_corner
  facet normal 0.0 -1.0 0.0
    outer loop
      vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
      vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
      vertex 0.0 0.0 1.0
    endloop
  endfacet
  ...
```

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View cache usage in your Action workflows

Dependency caching is one of the most effective ways to make jobs faster on GitHub Actions. You can now monitor the storage usage of your existing caches and get greater control over cache availability for your action workflows.

Actions users who use actions/cache to speed up their workflow execution times can now use our cache usage APIs to:

  • query the cache usage within each repository and monitor if the total size of all caches is reaching the upper limit of 10 GB,
  • monitor aggregate cache usage at organization level or even at enterprise level, if your GitHub organization is owned by an enterprise account.

Learn more about Managing caching dependencies to speed up workflows.

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