GitHub Enterprise Importer’s new git source migrator improves reliability of large repo migrations

GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) has implemented a new process for migrating git source data, significantly improving GEI’s reliability when migrating large repositories up to 10 GB with complex git histories. The new git source migrator is now available for all customers using GEI.

The new git source migrator uses the updated IP addresses for GitHub Enterprise Importer announced in October 2023. If you’re using GitHub Enterprise Importer to run migrations and have IP allow lists enabled, you will need to add our new IP range. The IP allow lists that may need to be updated include:

  • The IP allow list on your destination GitHub.com organization or enterprise
  • If you’re running migrations from GitHub.com, the IP allow list on your source GitHub.com organization or enterprise
  • If you’re running migrations from a GitHub Enterprise Server, Bitbucket Server or Bitbucket Data Center instance, the allow list on your configured Azure Blob Storage or Amazon S3 storage account
  • If you’re running migrations from Azure DevOps, the allow list on your Azure DevOps organization

For a full list of our IP ranges and more information, see our documentation on configuring IP allow lists for migrations.

For additional information about GEI, please follow our documentation for using GitHub Enterprise Importer

Secret scanning for historically existing secrets found in GitHub discussions and pull requests

Secret scanning has recently expanded coverage to GitHub discussions and pull requests.

GitHub is now performing a backfill scan, which will detect any historically existing secrets found in GitHub discussions and pull request bodies or comments.

For repositories with secret scanning enabled, if a secret is detected in a discussion or pull request, you will receive a secret scanning alert for it. Public leaks detected in public GitHub discussion or pull requests will also be sent to providers participating in the secret scanning partnership program.

Sign up for a 60 minute feedback session on secret scanning and be compensated for your time.

Learn how to secure your repositories with secret scanning or become a secret scanning partner.

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Deprecation of multi-label larger runners

From the 15th of May 2024 we will no longer support multiple labels on larger GitHub Hosted Runners.

In February 2023 we announced that customers could no longer add or manage additional labels on larger runners. Following on from this, we will now be fully deprecating support for multi-labels on larger runners. This means that jobs targeting more than one label or jobs targeting labels that do not match the runners name for GitHub Hosted Larger Runner, after May 15th, will no longer be able to pick up jobs.

We will be running a brown out on the 8th of May between 18:00 and 20:00 UTC, during this time multi label larger runner jobs will fail to start.

To prepare for this change and avoid any disruption, please ensure the runs-on: references only the runner name in your workflows prior to the dates above.

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Update 8th May: We did not run the brownout as planned today on May 8th. We apologize for any inconvenience. There will be additional details on the multi-label larger runners deprecation coming soon, with the future brownout date planned for June.

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