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Organize Discussions Categories into Sections

Since the introduction of Category Sections to organize content in our own community, users have asked for similar features to organize their own Discussions. Today, we're introducing the ability for all maintainers to group their Discussion categories into sections. We think this will help users better organize content, and also find new content more easily.
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The UI for this feature looks similar to the one in our own community, but users will now see a new UI when they edit a category. Users can not only create a new Category, but they can also create a new section from the "Manage Discussion Categories" page.
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Editing a single category now also gives the user the option of adding it to an existing section.
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For questions or feedback, please visit our community.

Enable security features for multiple repositories from your organization-level security coverage page

Available in public beta today, the security coverage page now includes multi-repository enablement, which lets you enable or disable security features across several repositories at once. This feature improves upon the “enable all” feature that only allows you to enable one security feature at a time for all repositories within the organization.

Multi-repository enablement also allows you to filter repositories based on attributes such as team or repository topic, and to enable or disable security features for only those repositories in just a few clicks.

 

multi-repository enablement panel on security coverage page

The following security features can be enabled/disabled using multi-repository enablement:

  • Dependency graph
  • Dependabot alerts
  • Dependabot security updates
  • GitHub Advanced Security
  • Code scanning default setup
  • Secret scanning
  • Push protection

These improvements have shipped as a public beta to GitHub.com and will be available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10.

Learn more about multi-repository enablement and send us your feedback

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Introducing Repository Rules Public Beta

Today we are announcing the public beta of repository rules! 🎉

Repository rules are GitHub’s next evolution of branch protections to help make your repositories more secure and compliant at scale.

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Rules allow you to easily define protections for branches and tags in your repositories and, if you are a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, to enforce them across your organization. It is also easier for everyone collaborating on your repositories to know what rules are in place.

Creating rules

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At the core of rules is the ability to define rulesets. A ruleset is a collection of rules that are enforced together. For example, you could require that all commits to a branch are signed and that those commits have two reviewers. Rulesets can also be applied to tags, allowing you to enforce rules on releases.

The ruleset page is the central place to view and manage all the rules for a repository. It shows the rules that are currently in place and allows you to add new rulesets or edit existing ones.

When creating a ruleset, you define its enforcement status as active or disabled. Active rulesets must pass for a commit to be merged, while disabled rulesets are not enforced; they will not prevent merges but allow admins to craft rules before enforcing them. Enterprise Cloud customers can also evaluate rulesets: a “dry run” mode for understanding the impact of new rules before they are active and enforced.

It’s also easier to target branches and tags in rulesets, with options to select the default branch, all branches, and branches or tags that match an fnmatch pattern. You can add multiple patterns to a ruleset to apply it to different branch and tag naming styles.

Viewing the rules

You can always know what rules are in place for a repository.

Anyone with read access to a repository can view its rules and what they mean. The rulesets overview is linked from the branches page by clicking the shield icon, and from a pull request, and from the output of the Git CLI when rules block a push.

From here, you can filter rules by branches or tags to understand how a rule might be enforced on your next push.

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Getting Started

Repository rules are now available to all GitHub cloud customers. To get started, visit the documentation to learn how to enable and use rules. For Enterprise Cloud customers, visit the documentation to learn about organization rulesets and more.

We want to hear from you on how we can improve repository rules! Join the conversation in the repository rules public beta discussion.

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