10/2021

As part of our ongoing efforts to keep GitHub-hosted runners updated and secure, the Windows 2016 virtual environment will be removed from GitHub Actions on March 15, 2022. We recommend…

GitHub secret scanning helps protect users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By flagging leaked secrets, our scans can prevent data leaks and prevent the fraudulent use of…

In GitHub Docs, you can choose Enterprise Cloud from the “Version” drop-down to see content that aligns with the experience of using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Learn how to manage your…

Sponsors will now be asked to provide location information for the purposes of taxes. Accordingly, maintainers will now see the VAT status and location of their sponsors in their transaction…

The diff setting to hide whitespace changes in the pull request Files Changed tab is now remembered for you for that pull request. You no longer need to re-enable it…

We have graduated twenty-three of the twenty-five existing previews that were in our REST API. Previously, REST API consumers needed to pass in a custom media-type via an HTTP accept…

Since our last update, we’ve continued to improve the GitHub Issues beta to expand the capabilities of both project tables and boards. Here are some of the recent ships: 🌀…

You can now choose to use a fixed-width font in Markdown-enabled fields, like issue comments and pull request descriptions. Currently these fields use a variable-width font, which can make it…

We added support to receive notifications for updates from releases, branches, and repositories in the GitHub app in Microsoft Teams. You can now subscribe to your repository in your Microsoft…

Managing self-hosted runners within an enterprise no longer requires personal access tokens with the admin:enterprise scope. Tighten down the permissions on your token by using the manage_runners:enterprise scope instead. A…

For all issues and PRs created on or after October 18th, 2021, you’ll see (Issue #xx) or (PR #xx) in the notification email title, so you can more easily distinguish…

You can now set whether a repository allows forking when creating or updating it using either the REST or GraphQL API. Previously, APIs for creating and updating repositories didn’t consider…

Previously, in the code browser, when you were searching for a branch by typing its name, a branch with the exact name of what you typed could appear at the…

Public repositories now have a public label next to their names like private and internal repositories do. Previously, repositories had a label next to their name that indicated if they…

GitHub Secret Scanning helps protect users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By flagging leaked secrets, our scans can prevent data leaks and fraudulent uses of secrets that…