05/2021

GitHub Sponsors now suggests sponsorship tiers when new makers set up their sponsors profile.

GitHub Desktop 2.8.2 now offers a native build for Apple silicon machines that use Apple’s new M1 chip. You can install it immediately from the GitHub Desktop site, and in…

On GitHub today, half of all pull request review conversations are left unresolved prior to merging. Now it is easier for authors to discover unresolved comments from the conversations menu…

Introducing an all new filtering experience. No matter what issue, pull request, or discussion you’re looking for, finding it just got a whole lot easier! We’ve added new metadata to…

We recently launched new and improved content for Codespaces. We heard from our beta testers that they wanted more task-focused documentation, more information on the benefits of Codespaces, and more…

Dependabot version updates now have the ability to ignore major, minor, or patch updates for a specific dependency or set of dependencies. For instance, you can use this feature to…

Starting June 16 2021, GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runners will only contain the latest patch release for each supported version of the .NET SDK. You will not be affected if you use…

The GitHub Advisory Database now includes sixty curated Go advisories and will continue to grow as we curate existing and new advisories for the Go ecosystem. The addition of Go…

Labels and a new announcements category format are now available as part of the GitHub Discussions public beta. Labels will help maintainers triage and organize their discussions. When creating a…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers will now be able to approve domains for email notification routing that they are not able to verify. Enterprise and organization owners will be able to…

Video upload is now supported everywhere you can author Markdown in GitHub, including from the mobile app. Share demos, show reproduction steps, and more in issue, pull request, and discussion…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud self-service compliance reports have moved to the compliance tab. Enterprise owners may download and view current GitHub compliance reports from the Compliance tab of their enterprise account:…

We are shipping improvements to pull request workflows on GitHub Mobile, making reviewing and merging pull requests much easier on the go! The pull request description has been moved into…

Dark mode is now available on GitHub Docs. Manage your theme settings in the “Appearance” tab located in your profile settings, then navigate to docs.github.com. Share your feedback on this…

You can now authenticate to SSH using a FIDO2 security key by adding a sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com or sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com SSH key to your account. SSH security keys store secret key material on…