GitHub Actions

When to choose GitHub-Hosted runners or self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions
Comparing GitHub-hosted vs self-hosted runners for your CI/CD workflows? This deep dive explores important factors to consider when making this critical infrastructure decision for your development team.

5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know
With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code.

Video: How to run dependency audits with GitHub Copilot
Learn to automate dependency management using GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, and Dependabot to eliminate manual checks, improve security, and save time for what really matters.

The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub
Learn about a community-developed framework for how to think about this problem holistically and how to use GitHub, particularly, to improve the security in the second half of your software supply chain.

How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features
Learn how GitHub used macOS and Apple Silicon runners for GitHub Actions to build, test, and deploy our iOS app faster.

Arm64 on GitHub Actions: Powering faster, more efficient build systems
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.

Dependabot on GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners is now generally available
A quick guide on the advantages of Dependabot as a GitHub Actions workflow and the benefits this unlocks, including self-hosted runner support.

Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta
Generate and verify signed attestations for anything you make with GitHub Actions.

Where does your software (really) come from?
GitHub is working with the OSS community to bring new supply chain security capabilities to the platform.

GitHub Actions, Arm64, and the future of automotive software development
Learn how GitHub’s Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, and Arm’s latest Automotive Enhanced processors, work together to usher in a new era of efficient, scalable, and flexible automotive software creation.

Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we’ve added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.

Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts
We listened to your feedback and released new versions (v4) of actions/upload-artifact and actions/download-artifact. While this version of the actions to upload and download artifacts includes up to 10x performance improvements and several new features, there are also key differences from previous versions that may require updates to your workflows.

GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.

GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag
The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!

From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions
Read a roundup of the exciting, new innovation coming from GitHub Actions.
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