United States Sales Tax and Exemptions on your GitHub Account

Starting August 19th, 2024, we will begin collecting state-mandated sales tax, where and when applicable, from paying customers in the United States to align GitHub with industry standard regulatory practices. All United States customers are required to update payment information (specifically your address) to ensure the correct sales tax amount is assessed. If you are a paying customer, there will be a tax line on your receipt that provides a breakdown of the applicable taxes for the GitHub products and services you have purchased.

As of today, you will have the ability to make updates on the Payment Information page. Please update your address and provide the following information if applicable:

  • We have updated the address collection fields to require:
    • Street Address
    • City
    • Zip Code +4 (5-digit ZIP required, +4 as optional)
  • If you qualify for an exemption or as a tax-exempt entity, you MUST submit an applicable and fully completed sales tax exemption certificate for review and approval on the Payment Information page.

You will have until August 19, 2024 to make these changes. Failure to do so may result in a disruption of service.

To learn more about how to make updates to your payment information, please click here to view a step by step guide. For more information on how to submit a sales tax exemption certificate, please click here.

Secret scanning now automatically performs validity checks for closed alerts

Secret scanning will now continually run validity checks on closed alerts, similarly to the behavior for open alerts today. You can still request on-demand checks for supported secret types from the alert at any time.

Validity checks indicate if the exposed credentials are active and could possibly still be exploited. GitHub Advanced Security customers on Enterprise Cloud can enable validity checks at the repository, organization, or enterprise level from your Code security settings.

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Sunset Notice – Projects (classic)

August 7 update: additional details added to the GitHub.com sunset timeline.

Today, we are announcing the sunset of GitHub Projects (classic), which will follow individual sunset timelines for GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server, and the REST API. Please see the details below for more information.

In July 2022, we announced the general availability of the new and improved Projects, powered by GitHub Issues. Since then, these new Projects have expanded to include a variety of features such as roadmaps, mobile support, project templates for organizations, project status updates, and unlimited items.

As we continue to invest in and enhance the future of Projects, we will be sunsetting Projects (classic). To migrate your existing classic projects to the new projects, please click Start migration on the banner at the top of your classic project:

The sunset will follow these timelines:

GitHub.com Timeline

  • May 23, 2024: A banner to migrate will be visible on classic projects, with the migration tooling included. Creation of new classic projects will be disabled.
  • August 23, 2024: Projects (classic) will be officially sunset. All unmigrated classic projects will automatically be migrated to new projects.
    • If projects is disabled on the organization level, classic projects under that organization will not be migrated.
    • Only cards that have been updated in the last year will be migrated.
    • During the migration process, projects v2 webhooks for the newly created projects will not be emitted.
    • After the migration on August 23, you will still technically be able to use the REST or GraphQL API to update your classic Projects. We heavily discourage this as your updates will not be persisted to the migrated V2 Projects.

GitHub Enterprise Server Timeline

  • August 27, 2024: Projects (classic) will be marked for deprecation in version 3.14. A banner to migrate will be visible on classic projects, with the migration tooling included.
  • March 11, 2025: Projects (classic) will be removed in version 3.16.

REST API Timeline

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