
GitHub Actions: Dynamic names for workflow runs
GitHub Actions customers can now dynamically name their workflow runs. The new run-name feature will accept expressions and be displayed on the list of workflow runs. For more information on…
GitHub Actions customers can now dynamically name their workflow runs. The new run-name feature will accept expressions and be displayed on the list of workflow runs. For more information on…
Node 12 has been out of support since April 2022, as a result we have started the deprecation process of Node 12 for GitHub Actions. We plan to migrate all…
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
Customers will now be able to use the GITHUB_TOKEN with workflow_dispatch and repository_dispatch events to trigger workflows. Prior to this change, events triggered by GITHUB_TOKEN would not create a new…
Today, we are announcing the public beta of larger GitHub hosted runners for GitHub Actions for Team and Enterprise plans 🎉 🎉 The new larger runners provide new capabilities for…
Now your team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time writing code.
OpenID Connect (OIDC) support in GitHub Actions is now enhanced to support secure cloud deployments at scale. Org & repo admins can use the new OIDC API support to: enable…
Reusable workflows can now be called from a matrix and other reusable workflows. You can now nest up to 4 levels of reusable workflows giving you greater flexibility and better…
This feature is available to repositories enrolled in the Pull Request Merge Queue beta. A new webhook event and GitHub Actions workflow trigger (merge_group) makes it easier to run required…
GitHub Pages now builds with GitHub Actions by default across all repositories. For more details, see this blog post.
The GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories for vulnerabilities on GitHub Actions. This brings the Advisory Database to ten supported ecosystems, including: Composer, Go, Hex, Maven, npm, NuGet,…
GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.
Ubuntu 22.04 is now generally available on GitHub-hosted runners. To use it now, simply add runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 in your workflow file. Otherwise, our recommendation is to use ubuntu-latest, which currently…
The Ubuntu 18.04 Actions runner image started our deprecation process on 8/8/22 and will be fully unsupported by 12/1/22. To raise awareness of the upcoming removal, jobs using Ubuntu 18.04…
Actions runner support for Apple silicon hardware, such as the M1 chip, is now generally available. This provides teams with the capability to run self-hosted macOS workflows in a macOS…
The repository that houses the images installed on GitHub-hosted runners has been renamed from actions/virtual-environments to actions/runner-images. These images are maintained by GitHub and used by GitHub Actions. If you…
Previously we retained self-hosted GitHub Action runners in the GitHub Actions UI for 30 days after they were last seen to connect. With the growth in the use of ephemeral…
You can now deploy to a GitHub Pages site directly from a repository using GitHub Actions, without needing to set up a publishing source. Using Actions to orchestrate Pages publishing…
The macOS 10.15 Actions runner image started our deprecation process on 5/31/22 and will be fully unsupported by 8/30/22. To raise awareness of the upcoming removal, jobs using macOS 10.15…
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.
New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
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