GitHub recently introduced the ability to set an expiration date when creating or regenerating a personal access token (PAT). For a PAT that is authorized to access an organization protected…
You can now set whether a repository allows forking when creating or updating it using either the REST or GraphQL API. Previously, APIs for creating and updating repositories didn’t consider…
The Codes of Conduct API preview, which was accessible with the scarlet-witch-preview header, is being deprecated. On December 6th, 2021, the fields behind this API preview will no longer be…
In this post, I’ll exploit a use-after-free (CVE-2021-30528) in the Chrome browser process that I reported to escape the Chrome sandbox. This is a fairly interesting bug that shows some of the subtleties involved in the interactions between C++ and Java in the Android version of Chrome.
Enterprise owners in GitHub Enterprise Cloud can now toggle Git LFS for a repository via API. Learn more about the API reference in our documentation.
The new GraphQL mutation createCommitOnBranch makes it easier to add, update, and delete files in a branch of a repository. This new API offers a simpler way to commit changes…
Forked repositories can now be synced with their upstream using the merge upstream API. For more info, see the documentation here. You can also sync forks through the web UI,…
You can now use the API (beta) to configure custom autolinks to external resources. The REST API now provides GET/POST/DELETE endpoints from which you can view, add or delete custom…
You can now programmatically check the status and resend repository, organization, and Apps webhooks through the REST API, to complement functionality currently provided in the Settings user interface. Using these…
We’ve shipped a couple of changes to our APIs: The code scanning API now returns the CodeQL query version used for an analysis. This can be used to reproduce results…
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…
About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter in order to serve more traffic and accommodate a more resilient platform architecture. We adopted a replicated Redis backend with…
The API for environments, and environment protection rules is now available. The API enables you to automate scenarios like creating an environment or approving a deployment. Learn more about the…
You can now delete and restore any package type within GitHub Packages, even publicly visible packages. Any package or package version of yours can now be deleted through the github.com…
The code scanning API allows users to upload data about static analysis security testing results, or export data about alerts. We are releasing updates to the API including: When uploading…
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more.
We’ve expanded our REST and GraphQL APIs for interaction limits to include two recently released features: set and query interaction limits for user accounts set longer interaction limits on repositories,…
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now view and resolve private repository secret scanning results via the GitHub REST API. In addition, a webhook is available whenever a new committed secret…
The Meta API endpoint previously contained MD5 signatures for GitHub’s SSH public keys. We have now deprecated these in favor of the newer SHA-256 fingerprints. Developers verifying the authenticity of…
As previously announced, GitHub.com no longer accepts account passwords when authenticating with the REST API and now requires the use of token-based authentication (e.g., a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub…
API Generally Available The GitHub Apps API for managing installations has now graduated from an API preview to a generally available API. The preview header is no longer required to…
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