GitHub Classroom now offers a pre-made GitHub starter course (Public Beta)

Classroom teachers can now select a pre-written starter course and add the course to their classrooms as an assignment for students. The first starter course is a lesson on Git and GitHub.

classroom starter code

For feedback visit https://support.github.com/contact/feedback?category=education

Sunsetting API Authentication via Query Parameters, and the OAuth Applications API

In February 2020, to strengthen the security of our API, we deprecated API Authentication via Query Parameters and the OAuth Application API to avoid unintentional logging of in-transit access tokens. In the coming months, we'll be removing these endpoints and authentication flow according to the following schedule:

OAuth Application API

Please refer to this blog post on migrating to the replacement endpoints.

Brownouts

  • May 5, 2021: For 12 hours starting at 14:00 UTC
  • June 9, 2021: For 24 hours starting at 14:00 UTC

Removal

  • August 11 2021 at 14:00 UTC

Authentication via Query Parameters

Please refer to this blog post for authentication via headers.

Brownouts

  • May 5, 2021: For 12 hours starting at 14:00 UTC
  • June 9, 2021: For 24 hours starting at 14:00 UTC
  • August 11, 2021: For 48 hours starting at 14:00 UTC

Removal

  • September 8 2021 at 14:00 UTC

Please check the latest Enterprise release notes to learn in which version these functionalities will be removed.

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Deprecation notice: GitHub Jobs site

Update: As of March 21, 2024, https://jobs.github.com/ has been sunset.

Today we are announcing the deprecation of GitHub Jobs and, on August 19th, will sunset the site entirely. Over the past year, we've seen that most of the positions listed on GitHub Jobs are already posted elsewhere, and most developers who use GitHub are looking elsewhere. To best serve the GitHub developer community, we will be sunsetting the site.

The deprecation and shutdown of GitHub Jobs will follow this timeline:

  • April 19, 2021: Every page on GitHub Jobs will display a banner indicating the deprecation and shutdown dates and linking to this post.
  • May 19, 2021: New job postings will no longer be accepted by GitHub Jobs.
  • June 9-10, June 29 – July 1, July 20-22, August 2-6: The JSON and Atom APIs will brownout so they will return only an error message indicating the deprecation and shutdown dates and linking to this post.
  • August 19, 2021: https://jobs.github.com/ will redirect to this blog post.
  • March 21, 2024: https://jobs.github.com/ has been sunset.
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