02/2022

Two weeks ago, GitHub released support for Mermaid diagrams in files and most Markdown fields (see Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid). However, gists were missing support for…

GitHub code scanning helps open source maintainers and organizations find potential vulnerabilities in their code, before these can make their way into deployments. CodeQL, our very own analysis engine, powers…

Today, we’re announcing that the ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Prebuilding a codespace enables fast environment creation times, regardless of the size or complexity of your repositories.…

Today, we are sharing new updates to our projects (Beta) experience, including some highly requested filtering additions and more on our continued investments into project insights. 👉 New filter syntax…

Update on March 4, 2022: We have temporarily paused the sunset. Please read the official announcement for more information. In early 2020, we moved the Teams API from a top-level…

GitHub code scanning supports a wide variety of code analysis engines through GitHub Actions workflows — including our own CodeQL engine. Users can now discover and configure Actions workflow templates…

Are you using our GitHub app in Microsoft Teams or Slack? Do you find it difficult to track all the notifications you get in your channels? If yes, here comes…

A CODEOWNERS file defines the users or teams responsible for different parts of your repository, and helps ensure the right people are included in pull request reviews. We’ve shipped some…

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.4 Release Candidate is available. This release brings over 60 new features including reusable workflows for GitHub Actions, Ruby support for GitHub Advanced Security Code Scanning,…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now enable secret scanning for their archived repositories via the UI and API. For more information: About secret scanning About archived repositories

This release adds support for viewing fixed alerts to the GraphQL API. This update also adds the ability to access and filter by state, as well as access unique numeric…

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from users that it’s hard to differentiate multiple codespaces in the same repo, especially if they’re on the same branch. To make it a…

You can now upload images to Wiki pages. Drag and drop, select or paste the file.

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now dry run custom secret scanning patterns at the repository level. Dry runs allow admins to review and hone their patterns before publishing them and…

In February 2020 we announced the deprecation of the general purpose “Delete reactions” REST API in favor of separate REST APIs for each place reactions can be applied. The old…