Highlights from Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
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GitHub Availability Report: May 2021
In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
GitHub has been at the forefront of security key adoption for many years. We were an early adopter of Universal 2nd Factor ("U2F") and were also one of the first…
GitHub Availability Report: April 2021
In April, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for API requests and the GitHub Packages service, specifically the GitHub Packages Container registry service.…
Release Radar · March 2021 Edition
The open source community is always hard at work. February's projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…
Using GitHub code scanning and CodeQL to detect traces of Solorigate and other backdoors
Last month, a member of the CodeQL security community contributed multiple CodeQL queries for C# codebases that can help organizations assess whether they are affected by the SolarWinds nation-state attack on various parts of critical network infrastructure around the world.
GitHub Actions: Workflows triggered by Dependabot PRs will run with read-only permissions
GitHub Actions: Workflows triggered by Dependabot PRs will run with read-only permissions
Release Radar · January 2021 Edition
Not everyone takes a break over the festive season. Some people in the community have been busy shipping releases. So we're here to bring you the latest and greatest releases…
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI
We’re releasing v7.0.0 of the npm CLI, which includes exciting new features such as Workspaces, automatically installed peer deps, and more!
GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Open collaboration on COVID-19
Explore some impactful open source projects being created by teams around the world in response to COVID-19.
Debugging network stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
GitHub Actions – new workflow syntax features
The GitHub Actions workflow syntax has new features based on feedback from our community. Env at the workflow and job level It is common to need define a set of…
Assign issues to issue commenters
Now you can now assign any read-only contributor to issues they’ve commented on. They'll get a notification that they are assigned, and if they aren’t able to take on the task, they can simply click the “Unassign me” button next to their username.
Assign issues to issue commenters
Now, when a user with read-only access to a repository comments on an issue, a maintainer of that repository can assign the issue to that user. If the user does…
Organization-wide community health files
Organizations can now add community health files to a specially named .github repository to serve as organization-wide defaults for all repositories within their organization. You can add CONTRIBUTING, SUPPORT, CODE_OF_CONDUCT,…
Restricting open new issue for repositories with issue templates
For repositories with issue templates, the "Open new issue" from comments option will be restricted to users with write access. Learn more about issue templates
Issue template automation improvements
Now, when creating issue templates for your repository you can automate setting assignees and labels. Additionally, you can suggest an issue title to help standardize incoming issues. Learn more about…