2019 - GitHub Changelog

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December 2019

DEC.20Improvement
Edit GitHub Security Advisories after publish
DEC.19Improvement
Improved attribution when squashing commits
DEC.19Release
GitHub Actions: The Runner is now open sourced
- Actions
DEC.19Improvement
GitHub Actions: Updates to the virtual environments
- Actions
DEC.17Release
Enterprise SAML team synchronization – public beta
DEC.13Improvement
2FA lockout recovery workflow
DEC.12Release
IP allow lists public beta
DEC.11Improvement
Report disruptive content to open source maintainers
DEC.10Retired
GitHub Actions: AWS and gcloud actions deprecated
- Actions
DEC.4Improvement
Expanded branch protection rules
DEC.4Improvement
Team synchronization: Updates for Azure AD
DEC.3Release
GitHub Actions: Self-hosted runners on ARM architectures
- Actions
DEC.3Improvement
GitHub Actions: Changes to release event
- Actions

November 2019

NOV.14Improvement
Scheduled reminders (beta)
NOV.14Release
GitHub Security Advisories now out of beta and automatic CVE requests
NOV.14Release
GoCardless, HashiCorp, Postman, and Tencent Cloud join our token scanning program
NOV.14Improvement
Automated security updates, now generally available
NOV.14Release
GitHub Security Lab and CodeQL for Research announced
NOV.14Release
GitHub Advisory Database
NOV.13Release
GitHub Sponsors for projects
- Community Engagement
NOV.13Release
GitHub Package Registry is now GitHub Packages
- Actions
NOV.13Improvement
Code search exact match (limited beta)
NOV.13Improvement
Code navigation is now available for all Go, Python, and Ruby repositories
NOV.12Improvement
GitHub for mobile iOS beta
NOV.12Improvement
Notifications (beta)
NOV.12Improvement
Code review assignment (beta)
NOV.12Release
GitHub Packages is generally available
- Actions
NOV.11Release
GitHub Actions is generally available
NOV.11Improvement
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.19
NOV.6Improvement
GitHub Actions: macOS virtual environment updated to Catalina
- Actions
NOV.6Improvement
GitHub Actions: Linux and Windows virtual environments updates
- Actions
NOV.5Release
GitHub Actions: Self-hosted runners
- Actions
NOV.5Improvement
API changes for OAuth token access to SAML organizations
NOV.4Release
GitHub Actions adds dependency caching
NOV.1Improvement
Improved issue editing and comment features on mobile web
NOV.1Improvement
GitHub Package Registry – NuGet must use repository field in the nuspec
NOV.1Improvement
GitHub Actions—scheduled jobs maximum frequency is changing

October 2019

OCT.31Improvement
GitHub Actions: macOS virtual environment is updating to Catalina and dropping Mojave support
- Actions
OCT.31Retired
GitHub Actions – Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed January 2020
OCT.28Release
Internal repository visibility is now generally available
OCT.28Improvement
GitHub Actions – update to job concurrency usage limits
OCT.28Release
New issue template configuration options
OCT.25Improvement
GitHub Actions – macOS and Windows virtual environments updates
OCT.25Release
Try out pre-release features with feature preview
OCT.24Improvement
GitHub Actions is changing how some events are evaluated
OCT.24Improvement
Navigate to the default branch faster
OCT.22Release
Private package deletion API
OCT.17Improvement
GitHub Actions – macOS virtual environment updates
OCT.17Retired
GitHub Actions – removing Python 3.4 and Ruby 2.3 from the virtual environments
OCT.17Release
Create default labels at the organization level
OCT.17Improvement
GitHub Actions default shell on Windows runners is changing to PowerShell
OCT.17Improvement
Action log line numbers are now links
OCT.16Improvement
Changes in GitHub Actions push event payload
- Actions
OCT.14Improvement
Improved security alert emails
OCT.10Improvement
The GitHub Actions Marketplace now requires an actions metadata file
OCT.9Release
Updates to internal repository visibility (beta)
OCT.4Improvement
GitHub Actions – macOS virtual environment updates
OCT.2Release
GitHub Desktop interactive tutorial
OCT.1Release
Auto-admission in the GitHub Actions and GitHub Package Registry beta
OCT.1Release
Multi-line references and comments (beta)
OCT.1Release
New editor for GitHub Actions
OCT.1Retired
GitHub Actions – HCL workflows are no longer being run
OCT.1Release
GitHub Actions – new workflow syntax features

September 2019

SEP.30Improvement
GitHub Actions – deterministic re-runs for workflows
SEP.30Improvement
GitHub Actions – event filtering updates
SEP.30Improvement
Restore deleted repositories
SEP.30Improvement
Updates to GitHub Actions virtual environments
SEP.30Improvement
Project details in issues sidebar
SEP.26Improvement
The Actions Tab Gets a New Look
SEP.24Release
Team Synchronization (general availability)
SEP.24Improvement
UI changes in GitHub Actions checks
SEP.18Improvement
Improvements to GitHub Actions
SEP.17Retired
GitHub Actions will stop running workflows written in HCL
SEP.12Release
Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security keys
SEP.11Release
CloudBees added to GitHub Token Scanning providers
SEP.6Improvement
Publishing a package no longer creates a release and other GitHub Package Registry updates
SEP.6Improvement
Improved check annotations on the “Files changed” tab

August 2019

AUG.30Improvement
Updates to triage and maintain roles (beta)
AUG.29Improvement
Web notification retention policy changes
AUG.28Retired
New SSH-DSS keys are no longer supported
AUG.22Improvement
Dependency graph now supports NuGet .vcxproj and .fsproj
AUG.21Improvement
Improved visibility for related pull requests in issues
AUG.20Release
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.18
AUG.16Release
Publishing packages from a GitHub Action to GitHub Package Registry
AUG.16Improvement
Find all references in public repositories
AUG.15Improvement
Users can now choose the package displayed in Used By
AUG.15Release
Audit Log GraphQL API now generally available
AUG.15Release
SSH certificate authentication for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
AUG.8Release
Updates to GitHub Actions (limited public beta)
AUG.8Retired
Password-based HTTP basic authentication deprecation and removal
AUG.7Improvement
Dependency graph supports scoped npm packages
AUG.5Improvement
Enterprise Accounts GraphQL Public Schema Preview
AUG.5Improvement
Mixed and uppercase topic redirects

July 2019

JUL.31Improvement
Automatically delete head branches of pull requests
JUL.23Improvement
Multi-line diff selection
JUL.19Improvement
Web notification retention policy changes
JUL.17Improvement
Jump to definition in public repositories now supports PHP
JUL.2Improvement
GitHub Desktop branch pruning
JUL.1Improvement
Verified devices

June 2019

JUN.27Release
Create repositories using GraphQL
JUN.26Improvement
Git LFS integrity check
JUN.25Improvement
Assign issues to issue commenters
JUN.24Improvement
Organization setting for profile names in comments
JUN.21Improvement
Improved authoring experience for new issues on mobile web
JUN.20Release
New funding platforms
JUN.18Release
GitHub adds npm as a token scanning partner
JUN.13Improvement
Updated deletion policy for packages
JUN.12Improvement
Auto-watching updates
JUN.11Improvement
Jump to definition in public repositories
JUN.5Release
GitHub Desktop 2.0 release
JUN.3Improvement
Authors subscribed to gists

May 2019

MAY.31Improvement
Default “documentation” label for new repositories
MAY.30Improvement
Milestones in project cards
MAY.29Improvement
Improvements to issue transfer permissions
MAY.23Release
Dependabot: Automated security fixes
MAY.23Improvement
Dependent repositories
MAY.23Improvement
Maintainer security advisories
MAY.23Improvement
Token scanning
MAY.23Improvement
WhiteSource vulnerability data
MAY.23Improvement
Community contributors
MAY.23Release
Triage and maintain roles (beta)
MAY.23Improvement
Audit Log API
MAY.23Release
GitHub Sponsors (beta)
- Community Engagement
MAY.23Release
Internal repository visibility (beta)
MAY.23Release
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.17
MAY.23Improvement
Security policy
MAY.23Improvement
Git data encryption at rest
MAY.23Release
Organization insights dashboard (beta)
MAY.23Improvement
Dependency insights
MAY.23Improvement
Enterprise accounts
MAY.23Release
Team synchronization (beta)
MAY.10Release
GitHub Package Registry (limited public beta)
MAY.9Release
Custom thread subscriptions
MAY.9Release
New features for issue creation on mobile
MAY.8Improvement
Gist notifications
MAY.1Improvement
Sample of how to enable security vulnerability alerts for organizations

April 2019

APR.24Improvement
Choose your merge commit email
APR.24Improvement
Project board information hovercard
APR.16Improvement
Repository social media image
APR.9Improvement
Credential Authorizations API
APR.9Improvement
Webhooks IP changes
APR.4Improvement
Timeline entries for blocking users
APR.3Improvement
Responsive issue template chooser

March 2019

MAR.29Improvement
Linking branch names on pull request headers
MAR.28Improvement
Watch releases list and email format update
MAR.28Improvement
Profile status expiration
MAR.28Improvement
Phone number now partially obscured in security checkup
MAR.26Improvement
Create a draft pull request from the REST API
MAR.25Improvement
Unverified listings on GitHub Marketplace
MAR.25Improvement
View organization members’ email addresses
MAR.20Improvement
25 linked repositories for project boards
MAR.20Improvement
Limit team creation to organization owners
MAR.18Improvement
View pull requests not reviewed by you
MAR.18Improvement
Sticky file headers in pull requests
MAR.15Improvement
Creating a commit on behalf of an organization
MAR.13Improvement
Pinned gists
MAR.13Improvement
GitHub Enterprise Server Vulnerabilities Response: patches released
MAR.13Improvement
GitHub Enterprise Cloud (“github.com”) vulnerabilities response: patched and not vulnerable
MAR.13Improvement
Deep link to pull request file filter
MAR.11Improvement
Subscription List
MAR.8Improvement
Expand ready for review permissions for draft pull requests
MAR.5Improvement
Exclude labels from search

February 2019

FEB.28Improvement
Counters for labels and milestones
FEB.21Improvement
Organization-wide community health files
FEB.21Improvement
Re-request review on a pull request
FEB.14Improvement
GitHub SecurityAdvisory and SecurityVulnerability APIs
FEB.14Improvement
Prompt to clean up merged forks
FEB.14Improvement
Updated clear filters button on pull requests files tab
FEB.14Improvement
Draft pull requests
FEB.13Improvement
Copy comment permalinks on mobile
FEB.13Improvement
Comment author label
FEB.12Improvement
Navbar for milestone detail pages
FEB.11Improvement
Close or reopen issues and pull requests from a project board
FEB.8Improvement
Updated releases design
FEB.8Improvement
Zero now included in search results counter
FEB.8Improvement
Search input field is expanded on focus
FEB.7Improvement
User owned project boards
FEB.6Improvement
Repository permissions report
FEB.5Improvement
Copy and paste styled text as Markdown

January 2019

JAN.31Improvement
Filter pull request files with no extension
JAN.30Improvement
Improved code review diff expansion
JAN.29Improvement
Unified pull request and issue sticky headers
JAN.23Improvement
Limit organization email notifications to verified domains
JAN.22Release
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.16
JAN.18Improvement
More reaction emojis
JAN.17Release
GitHub Desktop 1.6 release
JAN.16Improvement
User hovercard on sticky conversation headers
JAN.16Improvement
Dashboard UI refresh
JAN.15Improvement
TLS 1.3 rollout on GitHub.com
JAN.15Release
GitHub Enterprise 2.15.5, 2.14.12, 2.13.18 now available
JAN.14Improvement
Updated request changes icon
JAN.11Improvement
Mark as unread
JAN.11Improvement
Improvements to pull request reviews
JAN.11Improvement
Profile picture reset
JAN.9Improvement
More readable repository language bar
JAN.9Improvement
User profile status
JAN.7Retired
Unlimited free private repositories with GitHub Free and a unified business offering with GitHub Enterprise
JAN.4Improvement
Sticky conversation headers

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2019 - GitHub Changelog