4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a powerful platform that empowers your team to go from code to cloud, all from the comfort of your repositories. In this post, I’ll walk through a…
GitHub Actions is a powerful platform that empowers your team to go from code to cloud, all from the comfort of your repositories. In this post, I’ll walk through a…
The Audit Log now includes events associated with GitHub Actions workflow runs. This data provides enterprise customers with a greatly expanded data set for security and compliance audits. New events…
The API for environments, and environment protection rules is now available. The API enables you to automate scenarios like creating an environment or approving a deployment. Learn more about the…
Starting March 1st, 2021 workflow runs that are triggered by Dependabot from push, pull_request, pull_request_review, or pull_request_review_comment events will be treated as if they were opened from a repository fork.…
You can now limit which branches can deploy to an environment using Environment protection rules. When a job tries to deploy to an environment with Deployment branches configured Actions will…
GitHub Actions now supports skipping push and pull_request workflows by looking for some common keywords in your commit message. If any commit message in your push or the HEAD commit…
Beginning March 1, 2021, we will remove .NET Core 3.0 from macOS 10.15, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 18.04 virtual environments for GitHub-hosted runners. We follow a general guideline of removing…
On February 15th, GitHub Actions will remove support for referencing actions using the shortened version of a git commit SHA. This may cause some workflows in your repository to break.…
Today we are releasing an open beta for the new continuous delivery capabilities in GitHub Actions. In this open beta there is no need to sign up, all existing GitHub…
GitHub Actions can now generate a visual graph of your workflow on every run. With workflow visualization, you can view and understand complex workflows track progress of workflows in real-time…
On October 1, 2020, we published a CVE outlining a vulnerability in the set-env and add-path workflow commands feature of GitHub Actions, and announced that we would be deprecating those…
Workflows using the ubuntu-latest runner label will soon run on Ubuntu-20.04. GitHub Actions has supported Ubuntu-20.04 in preview mode since June 2. During these past four months we have monitored…
macOS Big Sur, or 11.0, is now available in preview for GitHub Actions. Try it by setting runs-on: macos-11.0 in your workflow file. The MacOS 11.0 Big Sur virtual environment…
We changed the GitHub Actions self-hosted runner group default access to disable “Allow public repositories.” This change impacts runner groups created before Sep 4, 2020 and changes those runner groups…
This is a guest post by Jimmy Whitaker, senior data science evangelist at Pachyderm In the last few years, DevOps has begun to shift—from a culture of continuous integration and…
See this post in action during GitHub Demo Days on October 16. What makes a project successful? For developers building cloud-native applications, successful projects thrive on transparent, consistent, and rigorous…
You can now change the maximum retention days for artifacts and logs in GitHub Actions, allowing you to better manage your storage space and to comply with your organizational retention…
A moderate security vulnerability has been identified in the GitHub Actions runner that can allow environment variable and path injection in workflows that log untrusted data to STDOUT. This can…
You can now fine-tune access to external actions. These updated settings make it easier to achieve your security and compliance goals with GitHub Actions. You can limit external actions to…
You can now use images from private registries in job and service containers. Job and Service containers in GitHub Actions allow you to containerize your CI environment and make databases,…
Logs for GitHub Actions have gotten a significant update. Some major enhancements and new features include: Styling changes to improve readability An improved search experience for large logs Auto-scrolling and…
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