2021 - GitHub Changelog

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December 2021

DEC.17Improvement
GitHub Actions: Improvements to GitHub Actions starter experience
- Actions
DEC.10Improvement
GitHub Actions: GitHub-hosted runners now run Node.js 16 by default
- Actions
DEC.9Improvement
GitHub Actions: Changes to permissions in workflows triggered by Dependabot
- Actions

November 2021

NOV.30Improvement
GitHub Actions: Workflows triggered by Dependabot receive dependabot secrets
- Actions
NOV.25Improvement
API support for managing labels of Actions self-hosted runners
- Actions
NOV.24Release
GitHub Actions: Reusable workflows are generally available
- Actions
NOV.23Improvement
GitHub Actions: Cache size is now increased to 10GB per repository
- Actions
NOV.23Release
GitHub Actions: setup-python now supports dependency caching
- Actions
NOV.23Release
GitHub Actions: Secure cloud deployments with OpenID Connect is now GA
- Actions
NOV.16Release
GitHub Actions: Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 is now generally available on GitHub-hosted runners
- Actions
NOV.10Improvement
GitHub Actions: Input types for manual workflows
- Actions
NOV.9Release
GitHub Actions: Conditional execution of steps in actions
- Actions
NOV.1Improvement
Actions support for branch protection changes
- Actions

October 2021

OCT.27Improvement
GitHub Actions: Secure cloud deployments with OpenID Connect
- Actions
OCT.19Retired
GitHub Actions : The Windows 2016 runner image will be removed from GitHub-hosted runners on March 15, 2022
- Actions
OCT.11Improvement
GitHub Actions: Granular personal access token scopes for self-hosted runners in enterprises
- Actions
OCT.6Improvement
GitHub Actions: Workflows triggered by Dependabot PRs will respect permissions key in workflows
- Actions
OCT.5Improvement
GitHub Actions: DRY your GitHub Actions configuration by reusing workflows
- Actions

September 2021

SEP.29Improvement
GitHub Actions: Jobs running on `macos-latest` are now running on macOS Big Sur (11).
- Actions
SEP.28Retired
Sunset Notice Affecting Actions: API Authentication via Query Parameters
- Account Management
SEP.20Improvement
GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners & new webhooks for auto-scaling
- Actions
SEP.20Improvement
GitHub Actions: Experience refresh for the management of self-hosted runners
- Actions
SEP.7Release
Deployment review notifications in Microsoft Teams and Slack
- Actions
SEP.7Release
GitHub Actions: Setup-node supports dependency caching for projects with monorepo and pnpm package manager
- Actions
SEP.2Improvement
GitHub Actions: Filter workflow runs by created date
- Actions

August 2021

AUG.30Improvement
GitHub Actions: Setup-java now supports dependency caching
- Actions
AUG.25Improvement
GitHub Actions: Reduce duplication with action composition
- Actions
AUG.23Release
GitHub Actions: Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 is now available on GitHub-hosted runners (Public Beta)
- Actions
AUG.16Release
GitHub Actions: macOS 11 Big Sur is generally available on GitHub-hosted runners
- Actions
AUG.4Improvement
GitHub Actions: Self-hosted runner events are now included in the Audit Log
- Actions

July 2021

JUL.2Improvement
GitHub Actions: Setup-node now supports dependency caching
- Actions
JUL.1Improvement
GitHub Actions: New settings for maintainers
- Actions

June 2021

JUN.29Improvement
GitHub Discussions events available on GitHub Actions
- Actions
JUN.22Release
GitHub Actions: Environments, environment protection rules, and environment secrets are generally available
- Actions
JUN.21Release
GitHub Packages Container registry is generally available!
- Actions
JUN.2Retired
Packages: ghcr.io maintenance mode on 2021-06-05
- Actions

May 2021

MAY.19Improvement
GitHub Actions : Hosted Ubuntu runners will only contain the latest patch release for each supported version of the .NET SDK
- Actions
MAY.6Release
GitHub Actions: Beta API to approve Actions from forks
- Actions

April 2021

APR.29Retired
GitHub Actions : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS virtual environment will be removed on September 20, 2021
- Actions
APR.22Improvement
GitHub Actions: Maintainers must approve first time contributor workflow runs
- Actions
APR.20Release
GitHub Actions: Control permissions for GITHUB_TOKEN
- Actions
APR.19Improvement
GitHub Actions: Limit workflow run or job concurrency
- Actions
APR.15Release
GitHub CLI 1.9 enables you to work with GitHub Actions from your terminal
- Actions
APR.5Improvement
GitHub Actions: Setup-java now support Adopt OpenJDK
- Actions
APR.1Release
Reviewing Deployments on GitHub Mobile
- Actions

March 2021

MAR.24Improvement
Packages: Container registry now supports GITHUB_TOKEN
- Actions
MAR.24Release
Packages: internal visibility now available for Container registry
- Actions
MAR.5Retired
Packages: time has been dropped from npm package metadata responses
- Actions

February 2021

FEB.23Improvement
GitHub Actions: environment, environment protection rules and deployment reviewers API
- Actions
FEB.23Improvement
GitHub Actions: Workflow run events are now included in the Audit Log
- Actions
FEB.19Improvement
GitHub Actions: Workflows triggered by Dependabot PRs will run with read-only permissions
- Actions
FEB.17Improvement
GitHub Actions: Limit which branches can deploy to an environment
- Actions
FEB.17Improvement
Packages: delete and restore for all packages
- Actions
FEB.8Improvement
GitHub Actions: Skip pull request and push workflows with [skip ci]
- Actions

January 2021

JAN.28Retired
GitHub Actions Breaking Change: .NET Core 3.0 will be removed from macOS and Ubuntu images
- Actions
JAN.21Retired
GitHub Actions: Short SHA deprecation
- Actions
JAN.8Retired
Packages: ghcr.io maintenance mode on 2021-01-09
- Actions

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2021 - GitHub Changelog