
GitHub Actions: Self-hosted runners can now disable automatic updates
You now have more control over when your self-hosted runners perform software updates. If you specify the –disableupdate flag to the runner then it will not try to perform an…
You now have more control over when your self-hosted runners perform software updates. If you specify the –disableupdate flag to the runner then it will not try to perform an…
The dependency graph now supports detecting GitHub Actions workflow YAML files. These will be displayed within the dependency graph section in the Insights tab. Repositories that publish actions will also…
The dependency graph helps developers and maintainers understand the code they depend on, and now includes GitHub Actions!
You can now reference local reusable workflows more easily. With this release, reusable workflows that are in the same repository as the calling repository can be referenced with just the…
If your GitHub organization is owned by an enterprise account, you can now innersource automation by sharing Actions only within your enterprise without publishing them publicly. You can store the…
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google.
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…
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