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Codespaces now offers organizational policies to restrict idle timeouts

Currently, codespaces are automatically stopped after 30 minutes of inactivity to avoid wasteful resources when they're not being used. Additionally, a default idle timeout can be set for a codespace of up to four hours.

We heard from many organization admins that they want to restrict idle timeouts for organization-owned codespaces as a measure of cost control. With this feature, we've added the ability for administrators to set a maximum idle timeout that applies to organization-owned codespaces. For instance, if the maximum idle timeout constraint is set to 15 minutes, then all organization-owned codespaces will be automatically stopped after 15 minutes of inactivity regardless of the default timeout set by individual developers.
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We will continue adding additional policy constraints based on feedback, some of which include setting maximum retention periods, setting allowed container images, and more. We'd love your feedback on additional policies that will help your scenarios on Codespaces discussions.

For more information, see Restricting idle timeouts for organization-owned codespaces

GitHub Actions: Public beta of macOS 12 for GitHub-hosted runners is now available

The macOS 12 Actions runner image public beta is now available. Start using GitHub Actions to build and publish apps for the Apple ecosystem with the latest version of Xcode (13.3) by updating your jobs to include runs-on: macos-12

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: macos-12
     steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Build
        run: swift build
      - name: Run tests
        run: swift test

The macOS 12 Actions runner image has different tools and tool versions than macOS 11. See the full list of changed software.

If you spot any issues with your workflows when using the image, please let us know by creating an issue in the virtual-environments repository.

While the runner image is in beta, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Follow the public roadmap for information on general availability of this image.

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Private Profiles

Users now have the ability to turn their GitHub profile “private”, which gives users controls over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. To enable this setting, visit https://github.com/settings/profile.

Private profiles are in public beta. As we continue to release new privacy control features, please share your feedback.

For more information, see Private Profiles documentation.

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