
Gists Now Support Alternative Default Branch Names
As you may or may not know, gists are actually Git repositories. New gists are now created with a default branch name of either main or the alternative default branch…
As you may or may not know, gists are actually Git repositories. New gists are now created with a default branch name of either main or the alternative default branch…
GitHub gists now only show their 30 most recent comments when first displayed. You can click Load earlier comments… to view more. This allows gists that have many comments to…
Discussions are now supported in the GitHub app for Microsoft Teams and Slack. Notifications You can now subscribe to the discussions feature from a channel in Microsoft Teams or Slack,…
Today, we’re shipping improvements to Dependabot alerts that help you more easily understand and remediate vulnerabilities from dependencies in your codebase. Persisted Dependabot alerts Developers can now view alerts that…
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now view all their Dependabot alerts in the organization security tab. This view is available to organization owners and members of teams with the security…
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…
GitHub can display several common image formats, including PNG, JPG, GIF, PSD, and SVG, and provides several ways to compare differences between versions. Now when reviewing added or changed images…
Users can now retrieve all their code scanning alerts at the GitHub organization level via the REST API. This new API endpoint supplements the existing repository level endpoint. This API…
When a URL in Markdown references a label, the label is now automatically rendered.
The ability to customize the command palette’s keyboard shortcuts is now available to all github.com users in beta. Customize the keyboard shortcuts for opening the command palette in search and…
The Update branch button on the pull request page lets you update your pull request’s branch with the latest changes from the base branch. This is useful for verifying your…
GitHub Enterprise Cloud users can now configure two new permissions when managing custom repository roles: View Dependabot alerts Dismiss Dependabot alerts You can learn more about custom repository roles in…
HTML links that you paste in Markdown are now automatically converted into Markdown links. To paste HTML links as plain text, use cmd/ctrl + shift + v instead.
Implementation of the Primer NavigationList component and design upgrade to our user, organization, repository and teams settings pages has shipped to all github.com users. The new NavigationList component groups similar…
You can now offer private repository access linked to a sponsor tier. GitHub will keep the list of collaborators in sync with your sponsors. You could use this for early…
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