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GitHub Actions can automate several common security and compliance tasks, even if your CI/CD pipeline is managed by another tool.

As part of our ongoing efforts to keep GitHub-hosted runners updated and secure, the Windows 2016 virtual environment will be removed from GitHub Actions on March 15, 2022. We recommend…

Managing self-hosted runners within an enterprise no longer requires personal access tokens with the admin:enterprise scope. Tighten down the permissions on your token by using the manage_runners:enterprise scope instead. A…

In March we made a change in GitHub Actions that forced workflows triggered by Dependabot to run with a read-only token. This change was made to protect your repositories from…

Now available in public beta, you can reuse entire workflows as if they were an action. Instead of copying and pasting workflow definitions across repositories, you can now reference an…

macOS Big Sur (11) became generally available on GitHub-hosted runners in August 2021. Over the next 8 weeks, jobs using the macos-latest runner label will migrate from Catalina (10.15) to…

GitHub Actions now supports ephemeral (i.e. single job) self-hosted runners and a new workflow_job webhook to make autoscaling your runners easier. After a job is run, ephemeral runners are automatically…

GitHub Actions now has an updated management experience for your self-hosted runners that makes it easier to manage runner groups and see the status of your runners. New Runners and…

You can now use setup-node action to cache dependencies for projects with monorepo and pnpm package manager. Use the optional cache-dependency-path field to specify the path to dependency file(s). steps:…

You can now filter workflow runs by the date of creation by using the created filter. For example: created:<2021-08-31. This is also available in the API

You can now run Java projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-java action. setup-java supports caching for both Gradle and Maven projects. The following example…

Previously, actions written in YAML could only use scripts. Now, they can also reference other actions. This makes it easy to reduce duplication in your workflows. For example, the following…

Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 Preview is now available in beta on GitHub-hosted runners. Use it by putting runs-on: windows-2022 in your workflow file. jobs: build: runs-on: windows-2022…

macOS 11 Big Sur is now generally available on GitHub-hosted runners. Use GitHub Actions to build and publish apps for the latest Apple ecosystem by updating your workflows to include…

The Audit Log now includes events associated with GitHub Actions self-hosted runners. This data provides enterprise customers with an expanded data set for security and compliance audits. New events will…

You can now run Node.js projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-node action. setup-node supports caching from both npm and yarn package managers. – uses:…

Maintainers now have additional control over when they must approve Actions runs for new contributors. In April, we shipped an update for GitHub Actions that required maintainers to approve Actions…

GitHub Discussions integrations are now available on GitHub Actions. You can now trigger workflows on Discussion and DiscussionComment webhook events. Get started with GitHub Discussions & Actions. For questions or…

Today we are making environments, environment protection rules, and environment secrets generally available. Learn more about environments For questions, visit the GitHub Actions community To see what’s next for Actions,…

Starting June 16 2021, GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runners will only contain the latest patch release for each supported version of the .NET SDK. You will not be affected if you use…

You can now use a Beta API to approve workflow runs from public forks of first time contributors. Learn more about using this API Learn more about approving first time…