GitHub Issues & Projects – September 28th update

Today's changelog brings you improvements to project templates (public beta), including new templates pages and the ability to create a template with a single click!

🏠 Find projects templates from your organization's Projects page

You'll now find all project templates in the "Templates" section of your organization's Projects page. This allows you to quickly find, filter, and open all available templates right alongside your projects.

You can also create templates using New template, in addition to converting an existing project into a template by toggling Make template on the project's settings page.

Create, set up, and reuse templates to make getting started with new projects a breeze!

organization templates page

In order to find templates that are relevant to you and your teams, you can now link project templates and create them directly from your team and repository "Projects" pages. This allows you to link relevant templates for quick and easy access the same way that you can link or create projects from these locations.

✍️ Tell us what you think!

We’ve got more improvements planned for project templates but we want to hear from you, so be sure to drop a note in the discussion and let us know how we can improve! Check out the documentation for more details.

Bug fixes and improvements

  • Improved the project collaborators suggestions to differentiate between teams and users
  • Fixed a bug where you could not download an empty project view with Export view data
  • Fixed a border contrast issue in the Workflows page

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

Questions or suggestions? Join the conversation in the community discussion.

You can now now see the list of recent jobs that Dependabot has run to check for updates and create or rebase pull requests directly from the repository-level dependency graph section of the insights tab. This list will show whether a job was successful, any error messages, and provide links to both the full logs for the job and any pull request affected by the job. This will give you more visibility into the Dependabot process and help you debug.

Screenshot of a list of details about recent Dependabot jobs for a repository

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GitHub Advanced Security now automatically only consumes licenses for commits and pushes made after a repository is migrated to GitHub, rather than considering all historic contributions from before the migration.

When a repository is migrated to GitHub, all historic commits are combined into a single push. This meant that when GitHub Advanced Security was enabled the repository would use licenses for all commits in that combined push, and so consume licenses for all historic commits. Previously this would be resolved manually, but this ship automates this work. GitHub Advanced Security now only uses licences for commits and pushes made after migration and does not consider legacy pushes that occurred in migrated repositories.

This has shipped to GitHub.com and will ship to GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12. Read more about billing for GitHub Advanced Security.

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