09/2021

Organizations can now display a README.md on their profile Overview. Start with creating a .github repository for the desired organization. Make sure it’s public. Add a profile folder to your…

GitHub releases now have an avatar list at the bottom of the release showing the avatars of all GitHub accounts mentioned in the release notes. This is a great way…

When you receive a notification email from a discussion, you will now see (Discussion #xx) in the header, so you can more easily recognise and filter for emails that reference…

The new GraphQL mutation createCommitOnBranch makes it easier to add, update, and delete files in a branch of a repository. This new API offers a simpler way to commit changes…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now view all their private repo secret scanning alerts in the organization security tab. This view is currently only available to organization owners, but will…

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 Release Candidate is available. This release includes more than 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for…

You can now download a CSV while will include each students’ GitHub alias, roster identifier, individual grade, and more for any given Assignment. No action is needed by you to…

The npm registry will upgrade its public CouchDB instance on September 15, 2021. As part of this upgrade, we will promote a new CouchDB replica to become our new public…

You can now use setup-node action to cache dependencies for projects with monorepo and pnpm package manager. Use the optional cache-dependency-path field to specify the path to dependency file(s). steps:…

Deployment review notifications for your GitHub Actions environments can now be tracked end-to-end using the GitHub app for Microsoft Teams or Slack. You will be notified when a review is…

Forked repositories can now be synced with their upstream using the merge upstream API. For more info, see the documentation here. You can also sync forks through the web UI,…

Organization and repository admins can now trigger webhooks to listen for changes to branch protection rules on their repositories. For more info, see the documentation here.

Organization owners and individual users can now view their LFS usage by repository. For further info, see the documentation here.

Since our last update, we’ve continued to improve the GitHub Issues beta to make GitHub the place that developers can plan, manage and track their work. Here are some of…

You can now filter workflow runs by the date of creation by using the created filter. For example: created:<2021-08-31. This is also available in the API