We improved the color contrast of our default light and dark themes on github.com, making them accessible to all users. These changes were made to Primer, GitHub's Design System, as part of our commitment to making GitHub inclusive to all developers. Visit accessibility.github.com for more information.
The VS Code light and dark themes will also be updated to match these changes.
We are excited to announce that GitHub app in Slack and Microsoft Teams now supports GitHub Actions workflow notifications.
You can now subscribe to your repository and get notified about GitHub Actions workflow run status from your channel or personal app.
/github subscribe owner/repo workflows
Getting notified about each and every workflow run can be noisy. So, we are providing you capability to filter the notifications based on your requirement. You can filter your actions workflows notifications based on name, event, actor and/or branch. You can filter the notifications as below.
/github subscribe owner/repo workflows:{name:"your workflow name" event:"workflow event" branch:"branch name" actor:"actor name"}
Note: When you configure workflow notifications without passing any filters, it is configured by default for workflows triggered via pull requests targeting your default branch.
For more information, please visit the GitHub app guidance for Slack and Microsoft Teams.
You can now display your local timezone on your profile to give others an idea of when to expect responses to pull requests or issues from you. You can opt into this feature by navigating to Settings > Public Profile and checking Display current local time. You can also update this information directly from your profile by clicking 'Edit Profile' under your avatar.
This will display your timezone in the left sidebar of your profile as well as your timezone's current deviation from UTC. When other users see your profile or user hovercard, they'll see your timezone as well as how many hours behind or ahead they are from your local time.
We've updated the notifications settings page to be more vibrant and easier to understand what changes you're making. Here are some of the updates:
Learn more here.
You can now specify whether to display images for light or dark themes in Markdown, using the HTML <picture> element in combination with the prefers-color-scheme media feature.
For example:
<picture>
<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25423296/163456776-7f95b81a-f1ed-45f7-b7ab-8fa810d529fa.png">
<img alt="Shows an illustrated sun in light color mode and a moon with stars in dark color mode." src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25423296/163456779-a8556205-d0a5-45e2-ac17-42d089e3c3f8.png">
</picture>You can now specify whether to display images for light or dark themes in Markdown, using the HTML <picture> element in combination with the prefers-color-scheme media feature.
For example:
<picture>
<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25423296/163456776-7f95b81a-f1ed-45f7-b7ab-8fa810d529fa.png">
<img alt="Shows an illustrated sun in light color mode and a moon with stars in dark color mode." src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25423296/163456779-a8556205-d0a5-45e2-ac17-42d089e3c3f8.png">
</picture>
A new Tritanopia colorblind theme for blue/yellow color blindness is now available to all github.com users in a public beta. Based on customer feedback, the previous Colorblind theme has been split into two themes: a Protanopia & Deuteranopia colorblind theme, and a Tritanopia colorblind theme. A Protanopia & Deuteranopia colorblind theme is now also available in beta. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in your profile settings to update your theme preferences.
New Protanopia & Deuteranopia colorblind themes for red/green color blindness are now available to all github.com users in a public beta. Based on customer feedback, the previous Colorblind theme has been split into two themes: a Protanopia & Deuteranopia colorblind theme, and a Tritanopia colorblind theme. This Protanopia & Deuteranopia colorblind theme is an update to the previous Colorblind themes. A Tritanopia colorblind theme is now also available in beta. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in your profile settings to update your theme preferences.
A light high contrast theme, with greater contrast between foreground and background elements, is now generally available to all github.com users. Navigate to the "Appearance" page in your profile settings to choose the light high contrast theme.
A VS Code light high contrast theme matching the official github.com theme is also now generally available. To start using the new theme, go to the VS Marketplace, click on the "Install" button, and select your preferred theme in VS Code.
Users can now unsubscribe from all repositories owned by a given user or organization. Navigate to github.com/watching to find a list of the repositories that you are subscribed to. The Unwatch All button gives you the option to unsubscribe from all repositories, or just the ones that belong to a specific user or owner. It will appear when you are watching all activity or custom notifications on over 10 repositories.
Clicking any of the dropdown options opens a modal to confirm unwatching repositories owned by the selected user/organization (or all repositories).
You can read more about how to unwatch a single or multiple repositories in the 'Managing your subscriptions' documentation
Users can now specify the theme an image is displayed for in Markdown. Appending #gh-dark-mode-only or #gh-light-mode-only to the end of an image url will define whether it's only shown to viewers using a light or a dark GitHub theme. For example:
The GitHub logo in the above screenshots uses the following Markdown to specify the theme context:
A light high contrast theme, with greater contrast between foreground and background elements, is now available to all github.com users in a public beta. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in your profile settings to choose the light high contrast theme.
GitHub Mobile now supports push notifications for pull request review activities – you will get notified when someone approves, comments, or requests changes on your pull requests. GitHub Mobile also support push notifications when you’re directly mentioned, requested to review a pull request, assigned a task or requested to approve a deployment for a protected environment. You can enable these new push notification types within Settings > Notifications.
Read more about GitHub Mobile and send us your feedback to help us improve.
The "Only notify requested team members" setting can now be enabled independently of "Enable auto assignment" in the Team's code review settings.
This is useful in scenarios where many users are auto assigned but not all users require notification. For example, when repositories are configured with teams as code owners but contributors know the specific individual to review their pull request. This setting now allows you to require that team for review, but without always notifying the whole team unnecessarily.
Read more about managing code review settings for your team.
Light and dark colorblind accessible themes are now available to all github.com users in a public beta. These themes swap colors such as red and green for orange and blue to make GitHub more inclusive for colorblind users. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in your profile settings to update your theme preferences.
A new GitHub Dark High Contrast theme matching the official github.com theme is now available in VS Code. To start using the new theme, go to the VS Marketplace, click on the "Install" button, and select your preferred theme in VS Code. This release also includes recent improvements to our color system across the other GitHub VS Code themes.
