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GitHub Secret Scanning scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally. This protects users from fraud and data leaks. Contributed Systems…

Organizations can now display a README.md on their profile Overview. Start with creating a .github repository for the desired organization. Make sure it’s public. Add a profile folder to your…

GitHub releases now have an avatar list at the bottom of the release showing the avatars of all GitHub accounts mentioned in the release notes. This is a great way…

What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis.

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…

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate.

You can now use setup-node action to cache dependencies for projects with monorepo and pnpm package manager. Use the optional cache-dependency-path field to specify the path to dependency file(s). steps:…

How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too.

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,…

Organization and repository admins can now trigger webhooks to listen for changes to branch protection rules on their repositories. For more info, see the documentation here.

You can now filter workflow runs by the date of creation by using the created filter. For example: created:<2021-08-31. This is also available in the API

We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.

The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines.

You can now run Java projects faster on GitHub Actions by enabling dependency caching on the setup-java action. setup-java supports caching for both Gradle and Maven projects. The following example…

The tag selection component on the GitHub Release Creation UI has been updated to now be a dropdown selector rather than a text field. This new component is less error…

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now retrieve private repository secret scanning results at the organization level via the GitHub REST API. This new endpoint, in beta, supplements the existing repository-level…

GitHub Secret Scanning scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally. This protects users from fraud and data leaks. PlanetScale is…

GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful.

We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.

GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.