07/2020

Repositories that use GitHub Pages can now build and deploy from any branch. Publishing to the special gh-pages branch will still work the same as it always has, but you…

For customers of GitHub Advanced Security running LGTM Enterprise, we have released LGTM Enterprise v1.24.1. This release includes a number of bug fixes including: Fixed private repository support for GitHub…

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Cyprus or any of the other 34 regions where Sponsors is generally available. Not in a…

The GitHub public roadmap is a new public repository hosted on GitHub, designed to give you and your team the information you need to plan ahead. You can learn about many of…

GitHub Enterprise accounts on github.com now enjoy higher hourly API rate limits for both GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps. OAuth Apps were increased to 15,000 API calls per hour from…

OAuth Apps and GitHub Apps now feature beta support for the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant, in addition to the existing Web Application Flow. This allows any CLI client or…

GitHub published a full description of its REST API in OpenAPI 3.0 specification compliant documents. The GitHub OpenAPI description contains more than 600 operations exposed in our API. For visual…

You can now add your Twitter username to your GitHub profile directly from your profile page, via profile settings, and also the REST API. We’ve also added the latest changes:…

We’ve made some changes in GitHub Actions to better support communities who have chosen to move away from using master as their default branch name. We have updated all of…

Secret leaks are one of the most common security mistakes, and they can have disastrous consequences. GitHub Secret Scanning looks for leaked secrets in all public repositories, and enrolled private…

You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Malta or any of the other regions where Sponsors is available. Not in a supported region?…

You can now set a skin tone default for emoji autocomplete results in comment text areas. This preference is available on your personal settings page. Set emoji skin tone preference

Previously, when branches were deleted on GitHub, any links that contained the old branch name broke across StackOverflow, email, Slack and other integrations. Links to deleted branches now redirect to…

We have introduced the ability for enterprises to enable or disable GitHub Actions for specific organizations. GitHub organization admins can also opt in or opt out specific repositories from using…

You can now assign Dependabot-created pull requests to a team for review. Use the @dependabot use these reviewers command in any Dependabot pull request, or configure the default reviewer to…