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XL macOS runners can now be used by any developer, without the need to sign-up! You can try the new runners today by setting the runs-on: key to macos-latest-xl, macos-12-xl,…

The macOS 13 (Ventura) beta runner image is now available for GitHub-hosted macOS runners. You can try it today by setting the runs-on: key to macos-13 or macos-13-xl in your…

GitHub today announced public beta support for custom deployment protection rules for safely rolling out deployments using GitHub Actions. Custom deployment protection rules are powered by GitHub Apps and can…

Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better.

Many of us are aware of the benefits that a strong focus on automation can bring, particularly in our development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. But silos across businesses can lead to duplication of effort, and potential to lose out on best practices. In this post, we’ll explore how CI/CD can be shared across your entire organization alongside policies, for a well-governed experience with GitHub Actions.

The GitHub Actions extension for VS Code is now in public beta. This extension includes rich editing features, such as syntax validation and autocomplete, making workflow authoring and editing faster…

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE.

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!