04/2021

When viewing the commit history of a single file, users can now click to view that file at the selected point in history.

As part of our ongoing efforts to keep the hosted actions runners updated and secure, the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS virtual environment will be removed from GitHub Actions on September 20,…

To improve security and confidence in the authenticity of your contributions, you can flag commits and tags on GitHub.com that are attributed to you but not signed by you. With…

GitHub Desktop 2.8 now allows you to: Expand diffs to view more context around the changes Hide whitespace in diffs to view substantive changes more easily Create aliases for repositories…

All GitHub Pages sites served from the github.io domain will now have a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header set. Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted. Learn more about…

GitHub actions will now require a collaborator with write access to take action to run workflows from first time users in pull requests. Learn more about why we are making…

GitHub now generates OpenGraph images for public repositories, issues, commits, and pull requests when a URL is shared on platforms that support OpenGraph rendering. Repository Issue Commit Pull Request

Pull request and review-related events are now included in the audit log at both the enterprise and organization levels. This helps administrators better monitor pull request activity and ensure security…

GitHub Actions now lets you control the permissions granted to the GITHUB_TOKEN secret. The GITHUB_TOKEN is an automatically generated secret that lets you make authenticated calls to the GitHub API…

Classroom teachers can now select a pre-written starter course and add the course to their classrooms as an assignment for students. The first starter course is a lesson on Git…

In February 2020, to strengthen the security of our API, we deprecated API Authentication via Query Parameters and the OAuth Application API to avoid unintentional logging of in-transit access tokens.…

Update: As of March 21, 2024, https://jobs.github.com/ has been sunset. Today we are announcing the deprecation of GitHub Jobs and, on August 19th, will sunset the site entirely. Over the…

GitHub Actions now supports a concurrency key at both the workflow and job level that will ensure that only a single run or job is in progress. There are a…

Developers who contributed to the specific versions of projects and libraries used by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to put the Ingenuity helicopter into the Martian atmosphere will receive a new…

The GitHub app is built on Slack’s workspace apps which is now deprecated. The legacy GitHub app will stop working on July 15, 2021. We have built a new version…