The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 release candidate is here
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 brings new capabilities to help companies create and ship secure software, more often. Here are a few highlights:
- Autoscaling with self-hosted runners – Actions administrators can configure auto scaling self-hosted actions runners using the actions runner controller and runner scale sets.
- The Projects public beta has seen numerous improvements – We're continuing to add more functionality to Projects in GitHub Enterprise Server, to make planning and tracking your work in GitHub even more effective.
- REST API now has versioning – API releases will be named with the date on which they are released (for example, 2021-04-01). Users will pick what version they want to use on a request-by-request basis, and each version will be supported for two years.
- Establishing semantic conventions for logging – As part of GitHub's gradual migration to internal semantic conventions for OpenTelemetry, we have updated many of the field names in our logging statements. This makes it clearer what each statement is referencing and allows you to troubleshoot problems quicker.
This release also includes an upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to 8, which will increase I/O utilization. Please read this page for more details on this increase and how to mitigate it if you see an unacceptable degradation of performance on your instance.
Release Candidates are a way for you to try the latest features at the earliest time, and they help us gather feedback early to ensure the release works in your environment. They should be tested on non-production environments. Read more about the release candidate process.
Read more about GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 in the release notes, or download the release candidate now. If you have any feedback or questions, please contact our Support team.