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Code security configurations let organizations easily roll out GitHub security products at scale

Code security configurations simplify the rollout of GitHub security products at scale by defining collections of security settings that can be applied to groups of repositories. Your organization can apply the ‘GitHub recommended’ security configuration, which applies GitHub’s suggested settings for Dependabot, secret scanning, and code scanning. Alternatively, you can instead create your own custom security configurations. For example, an organization could create a ‘High risk’ security configuration for production repositories, and a ‘Minimum protection’ security configuration for internal repositories. This lets you manage security settings based on different risk profiles and security needs. Your organization can also set a default security configuration which is automatically applied to new repositories, avoiding any gaps in your coverage.

With security configurations, you can also see the additional number of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) licenses that are required to apply a configuration, or made available by disabling GHAS features on selected repositories. This lets you understand license usage when you roll out GitHub’s code security features in your organization.

Security configurations are now available in public beta on GitHub.com, and will be available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14. You can learn more about security configurations or send us your feedback.

macOS 14 (Sonoma) is generally available

macOS 14 (Sonoma) is now generally available. Over the next 12 weeks, jobs using the macos-latest runner label will migrate from macOS 12 (Monterey) to macOS 14 (Sonoma). During migration, you can determine if your job has migrated by viewing the Runner Image information in the Set up job step of your logs. This announcement also applies to larger macOS runners, for which the following runner labels can be used:

  • macos-latest-xlarge
  • macos-latest-large 
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build
        run: swift build
      - name: Run tests
        run: swift test

To use macOS 14 directly, update runs-on: in your workflow file to macos-14, macos-14-xlarge, or macos-14-large:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: macos-14
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build
        run: swift build
      - name: Run tests
        run: swift test

The macOS 14 runner image has different tools and tool versions than macOS 12. See the full list of changed software.

Please note that once your workflows run on macOS 14 using latest they will not revert to run on older image versions. If you spot any issues with your workflows when using macOS 14, please let us know by creating an issue in the runner-images repository.

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GitHub Education Redesign

New GitHub Education user experience image

GitHub Education is excited to announce the launch of our redesigned experience for Learners! Our goal was to enhance the GitHub Education experience, with a focus on learning new skills, finding opportunities, and helping Learners connect and build their network.

The redesign promotes user-friendliness, accessibility, and intuitive navigation, to provide Learners with the ability to find the resources they need to pursue a career in tech.

You can explore the new design at https://education.github.com/ and share your feedback with us on the GitHub Community Discussions.

Not a GitHub Education Learner yet? Join now at https://education.github.com/discount_requests/application.

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