2020 - GitHub Changelog

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December 2020

DEC.15Release
GitHub Actions: Environments, environment protection rules and environment secrets (beta)
- Actions
DEC.14Improvement
Packages can filter for tagged and untagged containers
- Actions
DEC.8Improvement
GitHub Actions: Workflow visualization
- Actions

November 2020

NOV.17Release
Packages container support is an opt-in beta
- Actions
NOV.16Improvement
Packages – Organization admins access to containers
- Actions
NOV.12Improvement
Packages now respects IP allow list settings
- Actions
NOV.9Retired
GitHub Actions: Removing set-env and add-path commands on November 16
- Actions

October 2020

OCT.29Release
GitHub Actions: Ubuntu-latest workflows will use Ubuntu-20.04
- Actions
OCT.29Release
GitHub Actions: MacOS Big Sur Preview
- Actions
OCT.16Improvement
GitHub Actions: Self-Hosted Runner Group Access Changes
- Actions
OCT.8Release
GitHub Actions: Ability to change retention days for artifacts and logs
- Actions
OCT.1Retired
GitHub Actions: Deprecating set-env and add-path commands
- Actions
OCT.1Improvement
GitHub Actions: Fine-tune access to external actions
- Actions
OCT.1Improvement
Ability to disable Actions workflows
- Actions

September 2020

SEP.24Release
GitHub Actions: Private registry support for job and service containers
- Actions
SEP.23Improvement
GitHub Actions: Log Improvements
- Actions
SEP.14Release
GitHub Container Registry: New landing pages with repository linking
- Actions

August 2020

AUG.31Improvement
Create a custom list of email addresses to receive Actions and Packages billing threshold notifications
- Actions
AUG.7Release
GitHub Actions: Composite Run Steps
- Actions

July 2020

JUL.22Improvement
GitHub Actions: Better support for alternative default branch names
- Actions
JUL.7Improvement
GitHub Actions: ability to delete workflow runs
- Actions
JUL.6Release
GitHub Actions: Manual triggers with workflow_dispatch
- Actions

June 2020

JUN.23Release
GitHub Actions: workflow templates
- Actions

May 2020

MAY.26Improvement
GitHub Actions: Re-Run Successful Jobs
- Actions

April 2020

APR.28Improvement
GitHub Packages: Filtering for package search results
- Actions
APR.15Improvement
GitHub Actions: sets the `CI` environment variable to true
- Actions
APR.15Release
GitHub Actions: New workflow features
- Actions

March 2020

MAR.24Release
GitHub Actions: API is now generally available
- Actions
MAR.10Release
Packages supports snapshots for Apache Maven
- Actions

February 2020

FEB.12Improvement
GitHub Actions: Proxy Support for Self-Hosted Runners
- Actions

January 2020

JAN.30Improvement
GitHub Packages: Delete private packages on GitHub
- Actions
JAN.27Release
GitHub Actions: API Beta
- Actions
JAN.14Improvement
GitHub Actions: Changes to artifact download experience
- Actions
JAN.9Improvement
GitHub Actions: Updates to the macOS 10.15 virtual environment
- Actions

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2020 - GitHub Changelog