11/2021

Team sync support for Okta is now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Team sync allows GitHub.com organizations to sync an identity provider’s groups’ members to teams in GitHub.…

GitHub Actions workflows triggered by Dependabot will now be sent the Dependabot secrets. This change will enable you to pull from private package registries in your CI using the same…

Organization owners can now unsubscribe from email notifications when new deploy keys are added to repositories belonging to their organizations. For more info, see our docs.

It is now possible to list, add, and remove runner labels for Actions self-hosted runners via API. For more info on using the new APIs at a repository, organization, or…

Reusable workflows are now generally available. Reusable workflows help you reduce duplication by enabling you to reuse an entire workflow as if it were an action. A number of improvements…

Users can now specify the theme an image is displayed for in Markdown. Appending #gh-dark-mode-only or #gh-light-mode-only to the end of an image url will define whether it’s only shown…

We’ve improved the depth of CodeQL’s Python analysis by adding support for more libraries and frameworks, including: FastAPI aiomysql aiopg asyncpg Django REST framework The os.path module Flask-Admin toml ruamel.yaml…

You can now run workflows for Python projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-python action. setup-python supports caching for both pip and pipenv projects. The…

A light high contrast theme, with greater contrast between foreground and background elements, is now available to all github.com users in a public beta. Navigate to the “Appearance” page in…

The OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for secure cloud deployments with GitHub Actions is now generally available.You can configure your workflows to request short-lived access tokens that are automatically rotated for…

Customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud can now add custom footers to show additional links to enterprise members and collaborators. For more info, see our docs.

GitHub Mobile now supports push notifications for pull request review activities – you will get notified when someone approves, comments, or requests changes on your pull requests. GitHub Mobile also…

The @mention suggester now ranks participants in Issues, Pull Requests, and Discussions higher so that it’s more likely the person you are looking for will be listed first.

The latest release of the CodeQL CLI supports including markdown-rendered query help in SARIF files so that the help text can be viewed in the code scanning UI. This functionality…

You can now enjoy a higher per-repository cache size. The cache storage for each repository has doubled to 10GB. This enables Actions users on github.com to run workflows faster by caching…