07/2021

We’ve added enhanced support for CITATION.cff files to GitHub. CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information, and with this new feature, GitHub parses this information…

The CodeQL package manager is now available in public beta on GitHub.com. CodeQL packages can contain CodeQL queries and CodeQL libraries — and of course you can express dependencies between…

Developers using GitHub Sponsors now have the ability to control Custom Amounts on their Sponsors profile with more granularity. Users can enable Custom Amounts for use with a recurring sponsorship,…

In June, we announced that security alert notifications are opt-in on a per-repository basis, using the repository’s watch settings. Today, we have updated security alert digest emails to also respect…

You can now set an expiration date on your new and existing personal access tokens. Setting an expiration date on personal access tokens is highly recommended as this helps keep…

We have shipped improvements to the code scanning alerts branch filter! These changes make it clearer which code scanning alerts are being displayed on the alerts page. By default, the…

In May we announced that GitHub Advisory Database now includes Go advisories. Today we’re excited to announce that all of GitHub’s supply chain security features are available for Go modules,…

🌏 Today we’re releasing a new beta feature that allows you to translate GitHub Discussions content into different spoken languages. This initial beta release includes support for Korean, Brazilian Portuguese,…

GitHub has a brand new onboarding experience for users creating an account on github.com. From the homepage’s vantage point in outer space, we’ll guide you to a soft landing and…

New severity levels for security alerts We now show security-severity levels for CodeQL security alerts in code scanning. security-severity levels help you understand in more detail the risks posed by…

The markdown editor used when creating or editing a release in a GitHub repository now has a text-editing toolbar. Learn more about creating software releases on GitHub.

GitHub Secret Scanning scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally. This protects users from fraud and data leaks. GitHub has…

You can now run Node.js projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-node action. setup-node supports caching from both npm and yarn package managers. – uses:…

Maintainers now have additional control over when they must approve Actions runs for new contributors. In April, we shipped an update for GitHub Actions that required maintainers to approve Actions…

Organizations can now join GitHub Sponsors using a personal bank account, in addition to using a business bank account or a fiscal host. Learn more about setting up GitHub Sponsors…