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Starting May 20th, we will remove self-hosted runners from service that haven’t connected to service for 30 days. You will need to reconfigure your self-hosted runner after it gets removed…

We have released a new version of the GitHub Actions runner. Features Better telemetry and tracing for self-hosted runners (#405) Workaround some SIP limitations in macOS (#416) Support for custom…

The GitHub Actions runner now sets the CI=true environment variable by default. Learn more about GitHub Actions default environment variables

We’ve added some new workflow features to GitHub Actions based on your feedback. Workflow and job level run defaults. You can specify the shell and working-directory for the run action…

We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.

The GitHub Actions API is now generally available and out of beta. Thank you to everyone who tried out this API and provided feedback during the beta period. For support,…

We have released an improvement to the Actions tab which makes it easier to distinguish workflow runs from each other. For example, you can now see the commit message associated…

Starting March 5, we’re hosting an online GitHub Actions Hackathon challenging you to create original Actions.

Starting April 6, 2020, Python 2 will no longer be offered on any hosted virtual environments. Python 2 was sunset on January 1, 2020 and is not being improved or…

Starting March 3rd, 2020, the Ubuntu virtual environments will no longer start the MySQL service automatically. If you are using MySQL, this may be a breaking change for your workflows.…

In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.

Self-Hosted Runners now fully support environments that use a proxy server to connect to GitHub. You can add your proxy server as a Runner setting and leverage common Unix-style proxy…

Manage secrets, make use of self-hosted runners, and more with the GitHub Actions API—now available in beta.

The GitHub Actions API beta is now available. In addition to reading workflow and run data, Actions users can now automate common scenarios like managing secrets or registering runners. Learn…

We have changed the artifact download experience in GitHub Actions so it no longer adds an extra root directory to the downloaded archive. Previously, if you uploaded the following files…

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the macOS 10.15 virtual environment. You can see what changed in the diff here. Highlights include: Xcode 11.2.1 is set by default Added Xcode…

The GitHub Actions Runner is now open sourced. File issues and contribute to one of the most important components of GitHub Actions directly at: https://github.com/actions/runner The Runner is the application…

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include: Upgraded to Visual Studio 16.4.0 (Windows Server 2019) Upgraded to Firefox 71.0 (Ubuntu 18.04, Windows Server 2016,…

AWS and Google Cloud Platform released officially supported actions at GitHub Universe.  The actions/aws and actions/gcloud actions are deprecated and archived.  To make sure your workflows continue to run you…

GitHub Actions now supports self-hosted runners on the ARM and ARM64 architectures. When adding a new Linux runner to your repository, simply select which architecture you need and follow the…

GitHub Actions no longer triggers the release event for draft releases