GitHub Actions: Early September 2026 updates
GitHub Actions now includes three updates that give you clearer visibility and finer-grained control over your workflows. New REST API for runner version deprecations A new REST API returns when…
GitHub Actions now includes three updates that give you clearer visibility and finer-grained control over your workflows. New REST API for runner version deprecations A new REST API returns when…
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.26.4, which adds support for Go 1.27,…
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…
Explore the changes we’ve shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact.
Recent supply chain attacks use compromised GitHub credentials to push malicious GitHub Actions workflows that steal CI/CD credentials and carry out additional attacks. To help protect public repositories from these…
You can now run GitHub Copilot CLI in GitHub Actions using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. This means that you no longer need to create and store a personal access token (PAT),…
Editor’s note (July 15, 2026): We updated this post to reflect a revised backport enforcement date. Enforcement for backported versions of actions/checkout has been moved from July 16, 2026 to…
Workflow execution protections are now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise, organizations, and repositories. This new capability lets enterprise administrators define an allow list that controls who can trigger GitHub…
GitHub Actions is resuming enforcement of version requirements for self-hosted runners on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency. This change is part of a broader effort to rebuild…
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.25.5, which includes accuracy improvements across C/C++,…
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 (June 10, 2026): We’ve updated this post to reflect a change in the subject claim format. The delimiter between the name and immutable ID is now the @…
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…
Set up your first GitHub Actions workflow in this how-to guide.
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…
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