Dependabot alerts: enterprise enablement and status checking

February 28, 2023

What’s new?

This feature makes it easier to enable Dependabot alerts and check enablement status across all your repositories at an enterprise level, with updates across both enablement UI and APIs. These updates will ship today for GitHub.com and will ship for GitHub Enterprise Server users in 3.9.

Changes to the REST API

Dependabot alerts have been added to existing endpoints:

Enablement for existing repositories: Enable or disable a security feature for all repositories in an enterprise
Enablement for new repositories: Enable a security feature for any new, future repositories for an enterprise
Status checking: Get code security and analysis features for an enterprise

‘Code security and analysis’ settings

You can also adjust your enablement settings from your enterprise settings page (under ‘code security and analysis’). Options include enable all, disable all, and enable for new repositories for your enterprise.

Enable Dependabot alerts

Learn more about Dependabot alerts

Codespaces support for JetBrains Rider (Beta)

February 24, 2023

The GitHub Codespaces plugin for the JetBrains Gateway now supports Rider as a remote IDE. .NET developers can now leverage the standardization and power of GitHub Codespaces with JetBrains Rider's singular code indexing, navigation, and debugging capabilities.

JetBrains Rider in Gateway

GitHub Codespaces support for Rider enables multiple solution file scenarios. If there is only one solution file in a given codespace, the GitHub Codespaces plugin will automatically select that solution file. If there are multiple, the plugin will prompt the user to select which solution file they intend to use to open their project. Repositories without solution files are still compatible with Rider, however some features will be limited when no solution file is selected.

Rider solution file picker

To get started with Rider, follow the documentation for installing GitHub Codespaces into the JetBrains Gateway. Once installed, users can connect to any of their existing codespaces with Rider as their selected IDE.

We are extremely excited to deliver our top requested feature since the beta announcement of JetBrains support in GitHub Codespaces.

Additional Resources:

GitHub's documentation for using Codespaces with JetBrains IDEs.
JetBrains Rider documentation.
Feedback repository.
Example dotnet repository.

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New Forks page view

February 24, 2023

screenshot of list of fork repos

We've made improvements to the Forks Insights tab to give you much more information on the forks of your project. Now when you visit the Insights tab for a repository the Forks section will display a sortable and filterable list of forks. You'll also now see more details about each of the forks, like how recently they were updated, their stars and pull requests. To see an example, check out the forks of GitHub's docs repository.