06/2022

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now opt to receive a webhook event that triggers when any feature in “Code security and analysis” is enabled or disabled. The new security_and_analysis webhook…

Today, we’re announcing that the ability to prebuild codespaces is entering general availability. A prebuilt codespace serves as a “ready-to-go” template where your source code, editor extensions, project dependencies, commands,…

GitHub’s Advisory Database now supports listing malware advisories. You can see them by searching “type:malware” on https://github.com/advisories. If you have enabled Dependabot alerts on your repositories, GitHub will send Dependabot…

This beta feature allows repository admins to block Git pushes to a repository when they are potentially destructive. Developers have had branches deleted from their repository when someone pushes changes…

The Dependency Review GitHub Action, which checks if pull requests introduce a dependency with a known vulnerability, now supports configuration based on vulnerability severity and license type. The following configuration…

Previously, it was difficult to create a new branch from the GitHub UI. Now you can create a branch on the Branches overview page. Just click the New branch button,…

Back in March, we introduced a new “For you” feed in Public Beta, to help you discover interesting projects across GitHub. Today, we are sharing a few updates to this…

Translations are now available for discussion comments in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and English. If your first preference browser language is different from the language of the discussion comment, you will…

Teachers we have heard your feedback! The GitHub Classroom team is excited to announce that now in addition to reusing a single assignment you can reuse multiple assignments across Classrooms…

Today, we’re shipping the ability to select multiple Dependabot alerts to reopen or dismiss from the index page UI. For example, from the Closed alerts tab, you can now select…

The macOS 12 Actions runner image is now generally available. Start using GitHub Actions to build and publish apps for the Apple ecosystem with the latest version of Xcode by…

Workflows triggered by workflow_dispatch and workflow_call can now access their inputs using the inputs context. Previously workflow_dispatch inputs were in the event payload. This made it difficult for workflow authors…

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, we help protect users from data leaks and fraud associated with…

Achievements celebrate specific events and actions that happen on GitHub. They will appear as small badges listed in the sidebar of your profile and are in Public Beta starting today.…

You can now use GitHub Mobile to complete your password reset, if you have two-factor authentication enabled. After you confirm access to your email address, you’ll be asked to authenticate…