11/2021

Administrators can now allow specific users and teams to bypass pull request requirements. For context, this image shows how administrators can use branch protections to require pull requests for all…

After our GitHub Issues public beta announcement at GitHub Universe, we’ve seen teams start to engage with and adopt project tables, boards and all of our recently released features. Now that we’re…

It’s now easier to debug problems with CodeQL code scanning: an optional flag in the Actions workflow file will trigger diagnostic data to be uploaded as an artifact to your…

You can now preview renderings of Markdown files that you edit in GitHub Gist. It has long been possible to preview the Markdown rendering of file edits or comments on…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud administrators can now download and view the latest GitHub SOC 1, Type 2 and SOC 2, Type 2 compliance reports for 2021. These reports can be found…

On February 16, 2022, all non-audit-related npm Advisory APIs will be deprecated. Historically these undocumented APIs have been used to programmatically access advisory data. If you don’t use these APIs,…

You can now add custom parameters to your sponsorship URL in order to see what links your sponsors are coming to you from. Learn more about formatting your custom URLs…

You can manage your keyboard shortcuts using the new accessibility settings page. You can choose to disable “character key shortcuts”. This turns off keyboard shortcuts that only use single characters…

Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 is now generally available on GitHub-hosted runners. To use it now, simply add runs-on: windows-2022 in your workflow file. Otherwise, our recommendation is…

Right-to-left languages are now supported natively in Markdown files, issues, pull requests, discussions, and comments. Do you think they could be even better? Let us know how we can improve…

On Saturday November 13, 2021 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM PST, GitHub’s billing systems will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this time period, certain payment functionalities will be unavailable including: Adding a…

You can now export your Advanced Security license data to review usage across your business. The CSV data can be downloaded at both enterprise and organization level, and contains: the…

You can now quickly create a Markdown link in all Markdown-enabled fields, like issue comments and pull request descriptions, by pasting a URL on text that you have previously selected.…

The “Only notify requested team members” setting can now be enabled independently of “Enable auto assignment” in the Team’s code review settings. This is useful in scenarios where many users…

You can now specify input types for manually triggered workflows allowing you to provide a better experience to users of your workflow. In addition to the default string type, we…