Codespaces prebuilds now available in public beta

Today, we’re announcing that the ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Prebuilding a codespace enables fast environment creation times, regardless of the size or complexity of your repositories. A prebuilt codespace will serve as a ‘ready-to-go’ template where your source code, editor extensions, project dependencies, commands, and configurations have already been downloaded, installed, and applied so that you don’t have to wait for these tasks to finish each time you create a new codespace.

As a part of this release we’ve made improvements to the set-up process for prebuilds, as well as added support for GitHub-managed Actions workflows that will automatically prebuild a codespace for any configured repository’s branch and region(s). Additionally, since prebuild configurations are built on GitHub Actions virtual machines, repository admins will have access to a rich set of logs to help with efficient debugging in case failures occur.

Prebuilt codespaces are available in beta for all GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Team organizations. Repository admins can head over to their repository’s settings page and create prebuild configurations under the Codespaces tab. Once set up, you can take advantage of fast codespace creation by selecting machine types with the ‘prebuild ready’ tag.

Check out the prebuilds documentation to help you get started!

The new GitHub Issues – February 23rd update

Today, we are sharing new updates to our projects (Beta) experience, including some highly requested filtering additions and more on our continued investments into project insights.

👉 New filter syntax

With more filter flexibility, you'll have several new ways to work with filters in your projects, including:

  • Assignee:@me – use our new @me filter alongside the assignee field to show items assigned to you.
  • Iterations @next and @previous – easily filter to the next or previous iteration as enhancements to the existing iterations filter @current.
  • Number and date type fields now support all existing GitHub search syntax – including >, >=, <, <=, n..*, *..n and n..n.

Filtering

🏝 Iteration breaks

In our last update we made iterations more flexible with adjustable dates and lengths. We've built on that by adding in breaks making it easy to communicate when you and your team are taking time out from their iterations.
adding an iteration break

📈 Persistent charts

The insights alpha continues to improve based on your feedback. Previously we introduced chart filters, helping you get to the insights you care about. With the addition of persistent charts, you can now save and name these filtered charts to share with your team – just like you can with views.

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Join the discussion to share your feedback and experience with the insights alpha.

✨ Bug fixes & improvements

Other changes include:

  • When editing a project description or README, the cursor will default to the end of the text rather than the start.
  • Bug fix where adding a second filter after a comma would replace the original filter.
  • An or filter can now be created when using the iterations @current option. For example: Iteration:@current,iteration-10 will correctly return all items in either the current iteration or in iteration-10.
  • Bug fix where focus is lost after adding an item from the suggestion menu.

See how to use GitHub for project planning with GitHub Issues, check out what's on the roadmap, and learn more in the docs.

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Sunset Notice: Deprecated Teams API Endpoints

Update on March 4, 2022: We have temporarily paused the sunset. Please read the official announcement for more information.

In early 2020, we moved the Teams API from a top-level path under /teams/:team_id to a scoped path under the organization that owns the team like /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id and added support to make the API available under a named path like /orgs/:org/teams/:team_slug.

Over the next few weeks, we will be sunsetting the API endpoints under /teams/:team_id.

Timeline

Brownouts

  • March 1, 2022 for 12 hours starting at 14:00 UTC
  • March 8, 2022 for 24 hours starting at 14:00 UTC

If you make a request to an affected endpoint during the brownouts, GitHub will respond with a client error.

Removal

  • March 15, 2022 at 14:00 UTC

Affected endpoints

  • GET /teams/:team_id
  • PATCH /teams/:team_id
  • DELETE /teams/:team_id
  • GET /teams/:team_id/teams
  • GET /teams/:team_id/repos
  • GET /teams/:team_id/repos/:owner/:repo
  • PUT /teams/:team_id/repos/:owner/:repo
  • DELETE /teams/:team_id/repos/:owner/:repo
  • GET /teams/:team_id/projects
  • GET /teams/:team_id/projects/:project_id
  • PUT /teams/:team_id/projects/:project_id
  • DELETE /teams/:team_id/projects/:project_id
  • GET /teams/:team_id/members
  • GET /teams/:team_id/members/:username
  • PUT /teams/:team_id/members/:username
  • DELETE /teams/:team_id/members/:username
  • GET /teams/:team_id/memberships/:username
  • PUT /teams/:team_id/memberships/:username
  • DELETE /teams/:team_id/memberships/:username
  • GET /teams/:team_id/invitations

Steps to take

The easiest way to update your code is to switch to the /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id path. If you're unsure of what org_id to use, you can GET the current team under /teams/:team_id and find the id field inside the organization hash in the response.

Please refer to the REST API documentation to learn more about supported Teams API endpoints.

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