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There are two upcoming image migrations customers should be aware of, and GitHub is transitioning to owning the Arm64 images for hosted runners. Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub…

You can now allow multiple jobs or workflow runs to wait in the same GitHub Actions concurrency group instead of being limited to a single pending run. Previously, a concurrency…

Developers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it…

Editor’s note (April 20, 2026): We updated this post to clarify in preview, VNET failover manual and not automated This month, GitHub Actions adds entrypoint and command overrides for service…

A look at GitHub Actions’ 2026 roadmap, outlining how secure defaults, policy controls, and CI/CD observability harden the software supply chain end to end.

This month, GitHub Actions resolves some outstanding papercuts, including support for timezones in scheduled workflows and using environments without automatic deployments. GitHub Actions now allows developers to use environments without…

GitHub Actions now supports uploading and downloading non-zipped artifacts within workflows. Previously, when you uploaded an artifact using the actions/upload-artifact action it was automatically zipped. Downloading it using the actions/download-artifact…

Editor’s note (February 20, 2026): We updated this post to clarify that the v2.329.0 minimum version requirement applies at configuration/registration time (before running ./config.sh), not as the minimum version required…

This month, GitHub Actions introduces new capabilities, including custom runner autoscaling, expanded security controls for all users, and early access to new Windows and macOS runner images. GitHub Actions runner…

We’ve shipped several improvements to GitHub Actions that make it easier to write, validate, and troubleshoot workflow logic, especially when you rely on if: conditionals to control what runs. Here…

GitHub Actions 1 vCPU Linux runners are now generally available. All customers can now take advantage of these lower cost runners. These runners are optimized for automation tasks, issue operations,…

GitHub Actions workflow pages now successfully render workflows with more than 300 jobs. We’ve implemented lazy loading to smoothly handle large workflows. In addition, you can now filter jobs based…

Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…

A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.

GitHub code scanning default setup now runs even if your organization has GitHub Actions policies that restrict which workflows can run. In the past, restrictive actions policies could block code…

GitHub Actions cache size can now exceed 10 GB per repository You can now store more build dependencies between workflow runs with expanded GitHub Actions cache storage. Repositories can go…

GitHub Actions OpenID Connect (OIDC) token claims now include check_run_id This enhancement enables fine-grained, attribute-based access control and improves auditability for workflows that integrate with external services. Platform teams often…

Increased limits for reusable workflows You can now use up to 10 nested reusable workflows and call up to 50 workflows in total from a given workflow run. The previous…

GitHub Actions 1 vCPU Linux runners are now in public preview. Customers looking to run lightweight operations can take advantage of these lower cost runners. These runners are optimized for…

Editor’s note (February 25, 2026): Updated the migration date to June of 2026. Node20 will reach end-of-life (EOL) in April of 2026. As a result we have started the deprecation…