SMS has been removed from the GitHub.com sudo page

The option to use SMS on the sudo page on GitHub.com has been removed. Users can still use other 2FA methods as well as their password to pass the sudo check and take sensitive actions. If your account only has SMS as its 2FA method, you can visit your security settings to enable additional methods such as security keys and TOTP, as well as installing the GitHub Mobile app.

To learn more about the GitHub.com sudo prompt, see "Sudo mode". For details about setting up additional 2FA methods, see "Configuring two-factor authentication".

Updates to GitHub App installation management APIs

The "Remove a repository from an app installation" API has been updated to fail early if attempting to remove a repository from an application that is installed on all repositories.

To switch an application InstallationState from the all to some state in your organization, an organization owner or application manager must make this change within the UI, while picking up to 50 repositories for the app to continue to have access to. From there, additional repositories can be added via the UI or the "Add a repository to an app installation" API.

To learn more about managing application installations, see "Modifying repository access". For details on the GitHub App REST API, see "GitHub Apps".

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The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 Release Candidate is available

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 release candidate is here

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 brings new capabilities to help companies create and ship secure software, more often. Here are a few highlights:

  • Autoscaling with self-hosted runners – Actions administrators can configure auto scaling self-hosted actions runners using the actions runner controller and runner scale sets.
  • The Projects public beta has seen numerous improvements – We're continuing to add more functionality to Projects in GitHub Enterprise Server, to make planning and tracking your work in GitHub even more effective.
  • REST API now has versioning – API releases will be named with the date on which they are released (for example, 2021-04-01). Users will pick what version they want to use on a request-by-request basis, and each version will be supported for two years.
  • Establishing semantic conventions for logging – As part of GitHub's gradual migration to internal semantic conventions for OpenTelemetry, we have updated many of the field names in our logging statements. This makes it clearer what each statement is referencing and allows you to troubleshoot problems quicker.

This release also includes an upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to 8, which will increase I/O utilization. Please read this page for more details on this increase and how to mitigate it if you see an unacceptable degradation of performance on your instance.

Release Candidates are a way for you to try the latest features at the earliest time, and they help us gather feedback early to ensure the release works in your environment. They should be tested on non-production environments. Read more about the release candidate process.

Read more about GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 in the release notes, or download the release candidate now. If you have any feedback or questions, please contact our Support team.

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