Over 100,000 people push to protected branches nearly 300,000 times weekly, prompting improvements to enhance this workflow. Two key updates have been introduced: one allows merging out-of-date pull requests by maintaining necessary status checks without requiring the pull request to be fully up-to-date, which alleviates burdens for teams handling frequent changes. The second improvement introduces user and team restrictions, permitting organizations to specify which members or teams can push to a protected branch, while administrators retain push privileges. These changes aim to enhance codebase safety by controlling access to protected branches, thus improving the management of active repositories.