Newsletter

January 4, 2021

newsletter

Hello, this is the DevOps culture news. Since you might have missed some announcements, we’ve collected them here. The aim is to provide you with all the latest news on one page via an aggregation of different websites. Good reading !

GitHub Universe Updates

Improved daily experience

  • Dark mode Enable the dark mode in your settings today.

  • Auto-merge pull requests Increase developer productivity by allowing pull requests to be merged and closed without manual intervention. it will be rolling out over the next couple of weeks, enabled in your repo settings.

  • Discussions The new discussions feature is a space built for your community to discuss their work, ask questions and help one another.

  • Dependency review Have information in a pull request to know if you are introducing any new dependencies or vulnerabilities before these are added to your environment.

Continuous delivery support

  • Environments Protect your app, package, or website with rules and environment-specific secrets.

  • Required reviewers for Actions This allows time for manual inspection and verification of the artifacts being deployed.

  • Workflow visualization This makes it easier for users to assess progress of their workflows as they run, and to more easily identify problems for troubleshooting. This will save time and make it easier to communicate status to others, especially for complicated or lengthy workflows.

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 RC1

  • Actions GitHub Enterprise Server customers can use Actions.

  • Packages GitHub Enterprise Server customers can use GitHub Packages.

  • Code scanning Run CodeQL security analysis with every push to your repo and see results in your pull request.

  • Mobile support beta GitHub Enterprise Server customers can use GitHub Mobile.If you left your laptop in the other room, you can now sign into GitHub Enterprise Server from your phone or tablet.

  • Secret scanning beta Token leaks are one of the most common security mistakes, and they can have severe consequences. GitHub secret scanning already looks for leaked tokens in public repositories and works with the token-issuer to notify the developer and in some cases automatically revoke the token. This feature extends support for secret scanning to private and public repositories on server.

GitHub Sponsors for companies

  • GitHub GitHub Sponsors for companies, enabling organizations to invest in the open source developers and projects that they depend on via their existing billing arrangements.

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