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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

As we celebrate Actions becoming generally available, check out some of the ways teams are contributing to Actions—and how you can start automating more of your workflow.

Starting today, GitHub Actions is generally available. GitHub Actions are free for all public repositories, and every plan gets included storage and runner minutes for private repositories. Learn more about…

Celebrate a GitHub Action’s milestone with highlights of a few key actions and a technology partner’s work.

The GitHub Actions macOS virtual environment has been upgraded to Catalina (v10.15). Jobs using the macos-10.14 virtual environment will not run and must be migrated to use macos-latest. In addition to Catalina, other changes include: Xcode 11.1 will be set as default Mono 6.4, Xamarin.iOS 13.4, Xamarin.Android 10.0, Xamarin.Mac 6.2 will be set as default .NET Core 3.0 will be set as default…

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Added newer versions and removed older versions of .NET Core SDK Upgraded Erlang 10.4.4…

GitHub Actions now supports self-hosted runners. Hosting your own runners offers maximum flexibility and control of your workflows. Self-host your runners if you need a proprietary image or container, access…

Self-hosted runners offers a number of advantages when the hosted virtual environments don’t meet all your needs and it’s now available for GitHub Actions in beta.

Using the cache action you can now cache your dependencies between workflow runs. This can dramatically reduce the time it takes to run certain steps in your workflow. The rails/rails…

In order to provide a more reliable experience, we’ve set the minimum time period for scheduled runs to 5 minutes. A schedule of * * * * * which would…