01/2021

The second Release Candidate for GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 is here. This new version fixes many issues found during ongoing testing by GitHub teams, as well as bugs reported by…

Beginning April 15, 2021, we will stop redirecting GitHub Pages sites from *.github.com to the *.github.io domain. Today, we serve all GitHub Pages sites from the *.github.io domain, but before…

Beginning March 1, 2021, we will remove .NET Core 3.0 from macOS 10.15, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 18.04 virtual environments for GitHub-hosted runners. We follow a general guideline of removing…

GitHub CLI 1.5 now includes comment support, allowing you to: view comments for issues and pull requests view top-level review comments on pull requests comment on issues and pull requests

The npm registry now shows how many downloads each version of a package has received. The versions tab on a package page will show the number of downloads over the…

The assignees selection for issues and pull requests now supports type ahead searching so you can find users in your organization faster. Additionally, search result rankings have been updated to…

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in Bulgaria, Romania or any of the other regions where Sponsors is available. Not…

The npm registry will now display a link to the TypeScript type definitions for a package when those definitions exist in a separate package. If a package has a corresponding…

Dependency review helps reviewers and contributors understand dependency changes and their security impact at every pull request. It provides an easy to understand view of dependency changes with a rich…

GitHub Pages now gives you the option to limit access, making the site visible only to users with access to the repository that published the Page. With access control, you…

On February 15th, GitHub Actions will remove support for referencing actions using the shortened version of a git commit SHA. This may cause some workflows in your repository to break.…

Dependabot version updates now support pip-compile 5.5.0. Note that with the version update of pip-compile from 5.4.0 to 5.5.0, the formatting of “via” annotations has changed to one dependency per…

You can now rename any branch, including the default branch, from the web. If you’ve been waiting to rename your default branch from master to main, we now recommend doing…

You can now filter your web notifications by org or author on GitHub. View notifications from all repositories within an organization with org, or all conversations started by a user…

The first GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 Release Candidate is now available for download. Enterprise Server 3.0 is our biggest ever Server release. It brings an extensive set of new features…