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Users can now choose the package displayed in Used By
The Used By feature shows a badge at the top of public repositories which indicates how many repositories are known to depend on a public package published by this repository.…
A new experience for Learning Lab authors
Creating a Learning Lab course is easier than ever with a course builder, translations, and more.
SSH certificate authentication for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Enterprise and organization admins can now register their SSH certificate authorities with GitHub, helping their team access repositories over Git using SSH certificates.
Use GitHub Classroom with Canvas, Google Classroom, or your own tools
Connect your LMS to GitHub Classroom so you can manage all the tools you know and love, even easier with your workflow.
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
Since we introduced GitHub Actions last year, the response has been phenomenal, and developers have created thousands of inspired workflows. But we’ve also heard clear feedback from almost everyone: you want CI/CD! And that’s what we’re announcing today.
Password-based HTTP basic authentication deprecation and removal
You can no longer use password-based HTTP basic authentication for the few endpoints on GitHub.com that previously supported it. The affected endpoints include Atom feeds, a legacy repository archive endpoint,…
Mixed and uppercase topic redirects
We’ve removed a bit of friction for users who navigate topics by URL hacking. Instead of encountering a 404 page for URLs where the topics are mixed or uppercase (e.g.…
What’s new in the GitHub and Slack integration
The GitHub and Slack integration now supports the Deployments API, Checks API, and draft pull requests.
Maintainer spotlight: Fatih Arslan
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Fatih Arslan.
Yarn support for security alerts
Yarn now supports security alerts for public and private repositories.
C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages
To make language detection more robust and maintainable in the long run, we developed a machine learning classifier named OctoLingua based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture which can handle language predictions in tricky scenarios.
GitHub Desktop branch pruning
GitHub Desktop 2.1 removes unused branches from your local repository after they’ve been merged and deleted on GitHub.com to help keep your branch list relevant and uncluttered. View the full…
Create repositories using GraphQL
You can now create repositories using the GitHub GraphQL API. Learn more about creating repositories via GraphQL
Git LFS integrity check
Previously, if a Git LFS user had a misconfigured local client it was possible that LFS files were added and locally referenced but not uploaded to the LFS data storage. Consequently,…
Ask students to iterate on their work with draft pull requests
Help students and peers get the most out of pull request drafting, revising, (re)reviewing, and merging with draft pull requests.
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…
The GitHub Enterprise Audit log API for GraphQL beginners
The newly shipped GitHut Audit log API allows you to make efficient queries for specific log data. Learn more about how to get started with the API.
New funding platforms
We’ve added the following to the list of external funding platforms: Community Bridge Liberapay IssueHunt Otechie Include these using community_bridge: <project_name>, liberapay: <handle>, issuehunt: <handle>, or otechie: <handle>, respectively,…
FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team
Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.
Auto-watching updates
If you create a user-owned repository, you will now be automatically watching it for updates. Forks will no longer be automatically watched, even if you are granted push access. Learn…
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