12/2019

You can now edit GitHub Security Advisories after you publish them. This can be helpful if you’ve learned more about the scope or impact of the vulnerability you’re announcing, if…

In 2016, GitHub introduced commit squashing when merging a pull request. Then in 2018, we added support for commit co-authors. Today, we’re combining these features to improve the squash-and-merge experience.…

The GitHub Actions Runner is now open sourced. File issues and contribute to one of the most important components of GitHub Actions directly at: https://github.com/actions/runner The Runner is the application…

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include: Upgraded to Visual Studio 16.4.0 (Windows Server 2019) Upgraded to Firefox 71.0 (Ubuntu 18.04, Windows Server 2016,…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers that use enterprise SAML SSO can now enable team synchronization services for their organizations. Learn more about the enterprise SAML team synchronization public beta  

If you have lost your 2FA credentials and do not have your recovery codes, you can use the new account recovery workflow to attempt regaining access to your account. You…

IP allow lists are available in public beta for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers – allowing enterprise and organization owners to limit access to enterprise assets to an allowed set of…

As a repository administrator you can now allow community members to report disruptive content to project maintainers for review and moderation. Once enabled in the “reported content” section of your…

AWS and Google Cloud Platform released officially supported actions at GitHub Universe.  The actions/aws and actions/gcloud actions are deprecated and archived.  To make sure your workflows continue to run you…

The following improvements have been made to protected branches in order to facilitate more granular combinations of rules: Reject any push that contains a merge commit by enabling Require linear…

When searching for Azure AD groups to synchronize with GitHub teams, you can now match groups by entering the group email address. Learn more about team synchronization

GitHub Actions now supports self-hosted runners on the ARM and ARM64 architectures. When adding a new Linux runner to your repository, simply select which architecture you need and follow the…

GitHub Actions no longer triggers the release event for draft releases