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Code scanning default setup automatically includes all CodeQL supported languages

Code scanning default setup now automatically attempts to analyze all CodeQL supported languages in a repository. This means default setup supports all CodeQL languages at the organization level, including enabling code scanning from an organization's Security Overview coverage page or settings page.

Previously, users would have to manually include the languages C, C++, C#, Java, or Kotlin in a default setup analysis, and enabling these languages was not supported at the organization level. Now, code scanning default setup automatically attempts to analyze all languages supported by CodeQL in a repository. If any analyses fail, the failed language will be automatically deselected from the code scanning configuration. Any alerts from the successfully analyzed languages will be shown on GitHub. This means code scanning will automatically set up the best possible configuration to get started easily with CodeQL and show the most relevant alerts to developers.

A warning banner is shown in the repository settings page if any languages fail and are deseslected. The "edit configuration" page shows all languages in the configuration, and allows users to change the language selection if required. For more information about the languages and versions supported by CodeQL and code scanning, see Supported languages and frameworks. To learn more about code scanning, see About code scanning.

This change is already available on GitHub.com and will be available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12.

Authress is now a GitHub secret scanning partner

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets such as tokens and private keys. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud.

We have partnered with Authress to scan for their service client access keys and their user API tokens to help secure our mutual users in public repositories. Authress access keys allow users to secure applications and platforms through machine-to-machine authentication and they enable granular resource-based authorization. GitHub will forward any exposed access keys found in public repositories to Authress, who will automatically revoke the exposed access key, create an audit trail message that can be ingested by SIEM technologies, and send an email alert to your Authress account admin. Read more information about Authress API access keys.

All users can scan for and block Authress keys from entering their public repositories for free with push protection. GitHub Advanced Security customers can also scan for and block Authress keys in their private repositories.

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Code scanning with CodeQL supports Go 1.21

To enable developers to write code as securely as possible in their language of choice and using the latest features available, we constantly update code scanning with CodeQL. As such we are happy to announce that CodeQL now supports analyzing code written in Go 1.21.

Go 1.21 support is available by default in GitHub.com code scanning, CodeQL version 2.14.6, and GHES 3.11. For more information about the languages and versions supported by CodeQL and code scanning, see Supported languages and frameworks. To learn more about code scanning, see About code scanning.

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