10/2020

Along with the release of version 7 of the npm CLI, we have updated the npm documentation site to add the documentation for the new release. In addition, we’ve made…

The Packages NuGet service now normalizes versions numbers on publish. An invalid semantic version (ex. v1.0.0.0.0.0) is not downloadable by NuGet clients and therefore a NuGet service is expected to…

You can now use the –api-key command line option for publishing NuGet packages. This change allows you to pass your authentication token directly instead of storing it in the nuget.config…

Workflows using the ubuntu-latest runner label will soon run on Ubuntu-20.04. GitHub Actions has supported Ubuntu-20.04 in preview mode since June 2. During these past four months we have monitored…

macOS Big Sur, or 11.0, is now available in preview for GitHub Actions. Try it by setting runs-on: macos-11.0 in your workflow file. The MacOS 11.0 Big Sur virtual environment…

When a vulnerability is added to GitHub Advisory Database, the resulting Dependabot alert and security update notifications can be noisy. To help you focus on what matters, we’ve made a…

We have updated how webhooks on repositories, organizations, and apps can be configured via the API. We have a new configuration resource for full or partial updates to any or…

Sometimes, Dependabot security updates can’t create a pull request for you because any update we could make would break the requirements of another package that you depend on. When this…

API Generally Available The GitHub Apps API for managing installations has now graduated from an API preview to a generally available API. The preview header is no longer required to…

Jump to definition and find all references are now available for all C# repositories on GitHub. When you view a C# file on github.com, you can click on a function…

Dependabot version updates now run the go mod tidy command during every update, which helps keep your go.mod file well-organized and free of stale module versions. If your repository vendors…

We changed the GitHub Actions self-hosted runner group default access to disable “Allow public repositories.” This change impacts runner groups created before Sep 4, 2020 and changes those runner groups…

You can now change the maximum retention days for artifacts and logs in GitHub Actions, allowing you to better manage your storage space and to comply with your organizational retention…

GitHub Docs are now open source! You already use GitHub Docs to make the most of GitHub and now we want your help to make the docs even better. Join…

npm is introducing a new setting for access tokens to support publishing to the npm registry from CI/CD workflows. Previously, you could create an access token with one of two…