July 2018 product updates
Everything shipped on the GitHub platform in the month of July.

This is July’s GitHub Changelog digest. Subscribe to the Changelog or follow the official GitHub Changelog Twitter account to read about updates as they happen.
Here’s a complete list of last month’s releases:
- Unselectable diff markers
- Responsive search pages
- Preventing use of known-compromised passwords
- Removing files from a pull request
- GitHub Desktop 1.3 release
- Highlighting of permalinked comments
- User dashboard public beta
- Time-limited blocks for organizations
- New webhook event for GitHub Apps using User-to-Server tokens
- Access your repositories straight from the profile dropdown
- Security settings update
- Button to edit a repository’s README from the repository root
- GitHub Enterprise 2.14.1, 2.13.7, 2.12.15, 2.11.21 now available
- Marketplace cart and email notifications
- Keyboard shortcut to leave a single comment in pull request reviews
- Marketplace plan purchase restrictions
- GitHub for Visual Studio 2.5.4 release
- GitHub Enterprise 2.14.0, 2.13.6, 2.12.14, 2.11.20 now available
- Security alerts are now available in Python
- GraphQL API preview for Checks
- Anonymous timeline entries for moderation events
- Project automation for review status
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