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Info messages for bypassing branch protections in Git

We now show bypassed branch protection rules in response to Git pushes. These are information messages and are not designed to block workflows.

Historically there was no indication after a Git push that branch rules had been bypassed.

Repo admins, actors with the bypass branch protections permissions, and actors in bypass lists on branch protections will now see a list of rules that were bypassed.

Screenshot of Git command line interface showing list of rules

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Updates to the repository dependency graph view

The dependency graph shows a summary of the manifest and lock files stored in a repository. The repository view has an updated user experience that includes:

  • Search by package name from a paginated list of all dependencies
  • Dependency licenses
  • Dependabot alerts for dependencies, sorted by severity, and linking to the Dependabot alerts and the Dependabot updates pull request where applicable (only visible for users with priveleges to view the repository's Dependabot alerts)

Screenshot of dependency graph UX, using the high contrast theme

Access a repository's dependency graph from Insights > Dependency graph.

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Generate an SBOM from the dependency graph

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a standardized inventory of a software project's dependencies and associated metadata (versions, licenses, etc). You can now export your repository's dependency graph as an SBOM adhering to the SPDX 2.3 specification.

Click "Export SBOM" on a repository's dependency graph to generate an SBOM representing the head of the main branch. The resulting JSON file will download in your browser. Exporting an SBOM is free for all cloud repositories on GitHub, and can be performed by anyone with read access to a repository.

A supporting REST API to generate SBOMs for repositories will be available in the coming weeks.

Screenshot of a repository's dependency graph with SBOM export button in the top right corner

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