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Actions: Arm-based linux and windows runners are now in public beta

Today, GitHub announced the public beta of ArmⓇ-based Linux and Windows hosted runners for GitHub Actions.
This new addition to our suite of hosted runners provides power, performance & sustainability improvements for all your Actions jobs. Developers can now take advantage of Arm-based hardware hosted by GitHub to build and deploy their release assets anywhere Arm architecture is used. These runners are priced at 37% less than our x64 Linux and Windows runners.

The Arm64 runners are fully managed by GitHub with an image built by Arm containing all the tools needed for developers to get started. To view the list of installed software, give feedback, or to report issues with the image, head to the new partner runner images repository.

Arm runners are available to customers on our Team and Enterprise Cloud plans. We expect to begin offering Arm runners for open source and personal accounts by the end of the year.

Get Started

Customers can begin using these runners today by creating an Arm runner in their organization/enterprise, then updating the runs-on syntax in their Actions workflow file to call that runner name.
More information on how to set up Arm-hosted runners can be found in our public documentation.
To learn more about hosted runner per minute rates, see our rate table.

We’re eager to hear your feedback on these runners, share your thoughts on our GitHub Community Discussion.

Invoice as a Payment Option for Sponsorships Made Easy

We’ve streamlined the process for organizations to request invoices as a payment option for GitHub Sponsors. The service agreement for invoiced payments has moved out of the invoice request flow and added to the GitHub Sponsors additional terms.

If your organization is already receiving invoices for Sponsorships, there’s no need to worry. Your invoicing and current agreement will remain unchanged.

For more information on invoice payments for GitHub Sponsors, please visit Paying for GitHub Sponsors by Invoice.”

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GitHub Desktop 3.4 – Reset to Commit and Accessibility Settings

GitHub Desktop 3.4 lets you reset back to a specific commit quickly with “Reset to Commit” and improves discoverability of key application controls.

Resetting to Commit

With Reset to Commit, it takes one click to set your local history back to your latest pushed commit, with all of the reverted changes landing back into your changes list. While similar to using the undo function, Reset to Commit allows for resetting more than one commit at a time. By adding a new way to modify your history, Reset to Commit fits right along side undoing, reverting, amending, squashing, reordering, and cherry-picking features.

GitHub and the Desktop team are committed to making GitHub Desktop a tool for all developers. With GitHub Desktop 3.4, links are underlined by default and checkmarks are used in the diff to indicate whether a line is selected to be committed. These changes are aimed to enhance discoverability, be keyboard-accessible, and be semantically marked up to enable interaction with assistive technologies.

For users who want to opt out of these changes, check out the new Accessibility settings pane to customize your experience.

Automatic updates will roll out progressively, or you can download the latest GitHub Desktop here.

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