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Organization Archiving general availability

Building on the Public Beta of organization archiving, we're excited to announce that organization archiving is now generally available.

You can now archive all repositories in an organization with a single click. Archiving an organization will:

  • Archive all repositories in the organization
  • Set a key in the API to indicate the org has been archived
  • Restrict activities in that organization such as creating new repos
  • Display a banner on the organization's profile indicating that it's been archived
  • Email the organization's owners to let them know that the organization has been archived

To archive an organization, go to the organization's settings page and click the "Archive organization" button in the Danger Zone. This will launch a background job which performs the archiving; once complete, the banner will show up on the organization's profile page.

For more information on organization archiving, including how to un-archive an organization, see "Archiving an organization"

We'd love to hear your feedback on how it works for you.

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Invitation Enhancements

In the spirit of continuing to improve our invitation experience, we are bringing a few more enhancements to the UI and APIs to better support invitation management experiences. From today onward, the following will apply:

  • Enterprise owners can view all failed user invitations across their enterprise;
  • Enterprise and Organization owners can take bulk actions on their corresponding "People" pages in order to delete or retry failed invitations;
  • Outside collaborators will now be reflected within the failed invitation pages;
  • Enterprise owners can add multiple existing enterprise members to organizations via the UI at https://github.com/enterprises/<enterprise>/people; and
  • Invitation pages within organization and enterprise "People" pages will display invitation source information.

To learn more, read about inviting users in an organization.

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Organization Invitation Improvements

Whether you invite a user to an organization via the API or via our user interface, we are bringing enhancements to make this experience better. From today, you can:

  • search for a user via a verified email address both within the API and on an organization’s “People” pages;
  • utilize the API to assign more than one enterprise member at a time to additional organizations within your enterprise;
  • view additional user information provided within the enterprise and organization “People” invitation pages.

To learn more, read about inviting users in an organization.

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Organization Profile Updates: Member-only READMEs and pinned private repositories

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Now you can customize your organization's Overview page to show content dedicated to public users or members of the organization. A new member view is only visible to members of the organization and can be controlled in the sidebar to toggle between public and member view.

A README only visible to members

Similar to the public organization README that we released last year, you can now create a README that is only visible to members of your organization. In the .github-private repository the /profile/README.md will be displayed on your organization's Overview page.

Pinned private repositories

Organization owners are able to define a set of six public, private or internal repositories that are only visible to members of their organization, enabling members to quickly access popular or frequented repositories.

For more information about the new features, see "Customizing your organization's profile".

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Export Organization Members

Organization owners on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud can now export a list of the organization's members in JSON or CSV format, through the 'Export' button on the People tab at github.com/orgs/<organization>/people.

Export organization members button

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READMEs for organization profiles

GitHub README

Organizations can now display a README.md on their profile Overview.

Start with creating a .github repository for the desired organization. Make sure it's public. Add a profile folder to your .github repository and add a README.md file to the profile folder.

The contents of your README.md file will appear on the Overview page of the organization, visible to everyone. For an example, see the GitHub Overview page or learn more in the documentation.

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