Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.
Organizations can now join GitHub Sponsors using a personal bank account, in addition to using a business bank account or a fiscal host. Learn more about setting up GitHub Sponsors…
We’ve expanded our REST and GraphQL APIs for interaction limits to include two recently released features: set and query interaction limits for user accounts set longer interaction limits on repositories,…
We’ve added temporary interaction limits to user accounts. Users can set temporary limits on who can interact with their public repositories for up to six months. You can use them…
Until now, organization admins couldn’t view Actions and Packages billing history if the organization was part of an enterprise account. Now, organization admins can view that information so they can…
Protect your team’s code with secure software development best practices like setting up SAML/SCIM integrations, enforcing policies to avoid code leakage, and more.
Now available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud, SAML SSO and SCIM membership provisioning can be configured at the enterprise account level with an app template from the Okta Integration Network. This…
You can invite a trusted user to manage your user-owned repositories in the event you are unable to. For more information on appointing an account successor, see the maintaining ownership…
We’ve made some updates to our plans for developers and teams. Free plans: GitHub Team For Open Source is now GitHub Free Organizations and individuals on GitHub Free can now…
Enterprise accounts now have a public schema preview available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. As part of this preview, enterprise owners have the ability to manage enterprise accounts via the GraphQL…
We’ve introducing the enterprise account to help GitHub Enterprise customers manage multiple GitHub organizations. The enterprise account can centrally manage policy and billing subscription from a seamless interface. Learn more…
Finding compromised passwords and two-factor recovery checkups
In February, we shipped the “Recover Accounts Elsewhere” feature to help people regain access to their accounts if they lose access to their two-factor device or token. It is an…
You can now block a user directly from a security advisory page in public repositories owned by either an organization or a personal account. This brings the streamlined moderation experience…
We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here’s how it works.
Managing blocked users is now faster and clearer for personal accounts and organizations. With this update, you can: Search by username, full name, or email. Sort and paginate long lists.…
The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to…
Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a GitHub Copilot…
A dedicated workflow path for code quality CodeQL actions workflows is now generally available. Your workflow run history and your Actions usage reports now tell GitHub Code Quality runs apart…
CodeQL 2.26.3 adds JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue source modeling and improves the accuracy of several GitHub Actions queries. CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which helps…
Building on our self-service credential revocation experiences for incident response, you can now take token-type and user-specific actions to deauthorize and revoke user credentials during a security incident. This gives…
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