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We have introduced a new policy setting that controls whether GitHub Actions can approve pull requests. This protects against a user using Actions to satisfy the “Required approvals” branch protection…

While renewing GitHub Actions SSL certificates, an unexpected change in the intermediate certificate authority broke workflows using Open ID Connect (OIDC) based deployment to AWS. To fix the issue please…

Windows Server 2022 became generally available on GitHub-hosted runners in November 2021. Over the next 8 weeks, jobs using the windows-latest runner label will migrate from Windows Server 2019 to…

Previously, when running a job that requires a self-hosted runner, GitHub Actions would look for self-hosted runners in the repository, organization, and enterprise, in that order. We are changing that…

When you want to create a workflow in the Actions tab of your repository, the recommendations are now based on an analysis of repo content.

Getting started with GitHub Actions just got easier! Now, when you want to create an Actions workflow in the Actions tab of your repository, the workflow recommendations will be based…

Today you will begin to see a new workflow running called pages build and deployment in your public GitHub Pages repositories. This workflow is automatically triggered when you push to…

In the latest update to our GitHub-hosted runners virtual environments, Node.js 16 has become the default version of node and npm 8 has become the default version of npm. To…

Starting 12-09-2021, GitHub Actions workflows triggered by Dependabot for the create, deployment, and deployment_status events will always receive a read-only token and no secrets. Starting 12-09-2021, GitHub Actions workflows triggered…

We have added support for sigstore container signing to the default GitHub Actions starter workflow for publishing container images. New workflows on public repositories will use this by default. If…

GitHub has partnered with the OpenSSF and Project Sigstore to add container image signing to our default “Publish Docker Container” workflow.

GitHub Actions workflows triggered by Dependabot will now be sent the Dependabot secrets. This change will enable you to pull from private package registries in your CI using the same…

DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!)

Reusable workflows are now generally available. Reusable workflows help you reduce duplication by enabling you to reuse an entire workflow as if it were an action. A number of improvements…

You can now run workflows for Python projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-python action. setup-python supports caching for both pip and pipenv projects. The…

The OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for secure cloud deployments with GitHub Actions is now generally available.You can configure your workflows to request short-lived access tokens that are automatically rotated for…

GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens.

You can now enjoy a higher per-repository cache size. The cache storage for each repository has doubled to 10GB. This enables Actions users on github.com to run workflows faster by caching…

Check out some advanced automation and CI/CD capabilities you can use today with GitHub Actions on any GitHub account.

Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 is now generally available on GitHub-hosted runners. To use it now, simply add runs-on: windows-2022 in your workflow file. Otherwise, our recommendation is…

You can now specify input types for manually triggered workflows allowing you to provide a better experience to users of your workflow. In addition to the default string type, we…