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Dependabot helps you keep your dependencies up-to-date with Dependabot version updates. These pull requests are configured via a dependabot.yml file. Starting today, if you fork a repository with an existing…

GitHub Advanced Security customers using secret scanning can now specify a custom link via the organization level REST API that will show in the message when push protection detects and…

This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.

CodeQL comes with a built-in package manager that helps you share and manage custom queries. Last year, we announced the public beta of CodeQL packaging — including direct integration into…

You can now retrieve all your Dependabot alerts at the GitHub enterprise level via the REST API. This new API endpoint supplements the recently introduced Dependabot alerts REST API, Dependabot…

GitHub Actions workflows often specify the version of an action using the commit SHA. Since commit SHAs are immutable, this ensures that Actions always picks the same version. Commit SHAs,…

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GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud. We have partnered…

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You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.

CodeQL now officially supports customizing the build configuration for Go analysis in the Actions workflow file. This aligns the Go configuration experience with the C/C++, C#, and Java analysis. The…

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 release candidate is here GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 brings new capabilities to help companies build and deliver secure software, more quickly. With over 70 new…

The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.

Dependabot now supports updates to Python dependencies for pyproject.toml files that follow the PEP 621 standard for our supported Python package managers. Learn more about Dependabot’s supported ecosystems and package…

Dependabot now supports now supports the increase-if-necessary versioning strategy for the Python ecosystem. This allows you to reduce Dependabot version updates when your current dependency requirement is already satisfied by…

GitHub now stores detected secrets using symmetric encryption. Storing the encrypted secret allows secret scanning to provide the best possible user experience. Previously, we only stored the locations of the…

The enterprise audit log now records changes to GitHub Advanced Security, secret scanning, and push protection enablement. See business_secret_scanning See business_secret_scanning_push_protection See business_secret_scanning_push_protection_custom_message The organization-level audit log now also records…

We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.

OpenID Connect (OIDC) support in GitHub Actions enables secure cloud deployments using short-lived tokens that are automatically rotated for each deployment. You can now use the enhanced OIDC support to…

You can now retrieve all your Dependabot alerts at the GitHub organization level via the REST API. This new API endpoint supplements the recently introduced Dependabot alerts REST API and…