Notification of upcoming breaking changes in GitHub Actions
Decommissioned cache service brownouts GitHub has migrated customers to a new cache service and will now be shutting down the old service. This process will include brownouts of the old…
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As of March 29, fine-grained PATs and GitHub Apps need updates to access GitHub Models playground
Starting March 29, 2025, fine-grained Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and GitHub Apps accessing the GitHub Models playground will require the models:read permission. If your tokens or GitHub Apps currently do…
Planned GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) maintenance notice
Migrations will be undergoing maintenance starting at 21:00 UTC on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, with an expected duration of up to eight hours. During this maintenance period, users will experience…
Changes and deprecation notice for npm replication APIs
We are making changes to npm replication APIs to optimize performance and availability. As part of this update, certain endpoints will be deprecated as of Thursday, May 29, 2025. To…
Deprecation of beta GitHub Copilot usage API endpoint
Beginning February 2025, the beta Copilot /usage endpoints will be deprecated. No new data will be inserted for retrieval via the beta /usage endpoints. This endpoint will be accessible through…
Notice of upcoming deprecations and breaking changes for GitHub Actions
Changes to check run status modification To ensure the trustworthiness and security of Actions Check Run results, developers will soon lose the ability to modify the conclusion and status of…
Dependabot no longer supports Python 3.8
As of February 5, 2025, Dependabot no longer supports Python 3.8, which has reached its end-of-life. If you continue to use Python 3.8, Dependabot will not be able to create…
Deprecation of real-time GitHub Actions workflow job events in Slack and Microsoft Teams apps
We are deprecating real-time job status updates for GitHub Actions workflow notifications in Slack and Microsoft Teams on the 10th of March 2025. Users will continue to receive notifications when…
Actions Get workflow usage and Get workflow run usage endpoints closing down
As part of the ongoing transition of Enterprise customers and Team plan customers to our new billing platform, the Actions Get workflow usage and Get workflow run usage endpoints will…
Legacy Docker Registry closing down
GitHub will deprecate the Docker registry for GitHub Packages on Feb 24th, 2025 in favor of the GitHub Container Registry, which supports Docker packages. All packages in the Docker registry…
Dependabot will no longer support npm v6
As of January 20th, 2025, Dependabot no longer supports npm version 6, which has reached its end-of-life. If you continue to use npm version 6, Dependabot will be unable to…
Deprecating “Featured Customers” section in GitHub Marketplace listings
GitHub Marketplace will be deprecating the “Featured Customers” section from app listing pages. This change will not cause any breaking changes. Here’s what publishers need to know: Timeline: January 27,…
GitHub Actions: Ubuntu 20 runner image brownout dates and other breaking changes
Ubuntu 20 image is closing down We are beginning the process of closing down the Ubuntu 20 hosted runner image, following our N-1 OS support policy. This image will be…
Code scanning: CodeQL Action v2 is now retired
On December 13, 2023, we released CodeQL Action v3, which runs on the Node.js 20 runtime. In January 2024, we announced that CodeQL Action v2 would be retired at the…
Closing down notice: Dependabot will no longer support Python version 3.8
On February 5th, 2025, Dependabot will end support for Python version 3.8, which has reached its end-of-life. If you continue to use Python version 3.8, there’s a risk that Dependabot…
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