08/2021

As previously announced, on September 8th 2021 at 14:00 UTC, GitHub will stop supporting API Authentication via Query Parameters. If you are passing credentials via query or path parameters, GitHub…

  Get to your most important work faster by customizing the shortcuts in the My Work and Favorites sections on the Home tab. Tapping the overflow icon in either section…

You can now run Java projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-java action. setup-java supports caching for both Gradle and Maven projects. The following example…

GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions, allowing you to create and share custom commands to improve your GitHub workflows. Learn more about GitHub CLI, and check out the blog post and…

Previously, actions written in YAML could only use scripts. Now, they can also reference other actions. This makes it easy to reduce duplication in your workflows. For example, the following…

The tag selection component on the GitHub Release Creation UI has been updated to now be a dropdown selector rather than a text field. This new component is less error…

A dark high contrast theme, with greater contrast between foreground and background elements, is now generally available to all github.com users. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in your profile settings…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now retrieve private repository secret scanning results at the organization level via the GitHub REST API. This new endpoint, in beta, supplements the existing repository-level…

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. PlanetScale is…

You can now block users on GitHub Mobile to control who can interact with you and your repositories. The Block user action can be accessed from the header of a…

Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 Preview is now available in beta on GitHub-hosted runners. Use it by putting runs-on: windows-2022 in your workflow file. jobs: build: runs-on: windows-2022…

You can now easily find all alerts associated with your pull request with the new pull request filter on the code scanning alerts page. To show all the code scanning…

For Wikis, we now automatically generate a table of contents based on the headings.

Maintainers can now manage the repository-level “Allow auto-merge” setting. This setting, which is off by default, controls whether auto-merge is available on pull requests in the repository. Previously, only admins…

GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, providing your community a central gathering space to ask questions, share ideas, and build connections. To get started with Discussions, admins and maintainers…