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Enabling caching by default has demonstrated improved workflow performance, and can reduce build times by 20-40% for repositories with dependencies greater than 100 MB! This change has been made to…

In addition to Ubuntu & Windows, GitHub Actions now attaches a SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) to hosted runner image releases for macOS. In the context of GitHub Actions hosted…

If you use versioned reusable workflows in GitHub Actions, you can now use Dependabot version updates to keep those workflows up-to-date in your repositories! This is useful for anyone using…

Today, we are adding a couple of new improvements to required workflows in GitHub Actions. Blocking direct push: Direct pushes are now blocked on branches of the repositories where required…

Starting today, we are enabling administrators to bypass all protection rules on a given environment (break glass) and force the pending jobs referencing the environment to proceed. For more information,…

GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available to all GitHub users. You can now easily plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI to…

We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitHub Actions Importer. GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI…

People on the paid Team and Enterprise plans can now sign up for a beta to get access to new and powerful macOS runners for x64. Access is requested via…

Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.

Starting on February 14, 2023, users of GitHub-hosted larger runners will no longer be able to add, edit or remove additional labels on existing or new runners. Customers will continue…

What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!

Previously, GitHub Actions gets a GITHUB_TOKEN with both read/write permissions by default whenever Actions is enabled on a repository. As a default, this is too permissive, so to improve security…

We are making changes to job summaries and logs in GitHub Actions that will impact customers using self-hosted runners. Over the next six months, customers using self-hosted runners will need…

How to tap into the power of GitHub Actions from anywhere with GitHub Mobile!

When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.

OpenID Connect (OIDC) support in GitHub Actions enables secure cloud deployments using short-lived tokens that are automatically rotated for each deployment. Each OIDC token includes standard claims like the audience,…

Now, you can standardize and enforce CI/CD best practices across all repositories in your organization to reduce duplication and secure your DevOps processes.

Today, we are adding support for configuration variables in GitHub Actions 🎉 Previously, you needed to store this configuration data as encrypted secrets in order to reuse values in workflows.…

Today, we are announcing public beta of required workflows in GitHub Actions 🎉 Required workflows allow DevOps teams to define and enforce standard CI/CD practices across many source code repositories…

GitHub Actions hosted runner images are now more secure than ever, with the ability to see exactly what software is pre-installed on the image that was used by the runner…

The actions and reusable workflows from private repositories can now be shared with other private repositories within the same organization, user account, or enterprise. See managing the repository settings and…