Company
Date Published
Author
Sidi Merzouk
Word count
2155
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

September's updates from GitHub featured a range of enhancements and new releases across various platforms and tools, catering to diverse users from students to enterprise clients. Highlights include the introduction of the GitHub Global Campus student portal, enabling students to access industry tools and community resources more efficiently. GitHub Actions introduced new filtering options for workflow runs and enhancements to deployment tracking, while the GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 release brought over 70 new features. GitHub also expanded its security features, adding Rust security advisories to its Advisory Database and updating its secret scanning capabilities. Furthermore, GitHub Issues saw improvements in bulk management and customization of fields, and new tools were added for repository management, such as a GraphQL mutation for commit authoring. The npm registry and GitHub Classroom also received updates, enhancing security and stabilizing content, respectively. Lastly, GitHub introduced colorblind-accessible themes to improve user experience, with continued development and future updates teased on their public roadmap.