Secret scanning detects Base64-encoded GitHub tokens February 14, 2025 security-and-compliance GitHub continually updates its detectors for secret scanning with new patterns and upgrades of existing patterns, ensuring your repositories have comprehensive detection for different secret types. GitHub now automatically detects Base64-encoded secrets for the following token types: GitHub personal access tokens GitHub OAuth access tokens GitHub user to server tokens GitHub server to server tokens. GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets such as tokens and private keys. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud. See the full list of supported secrets in the documentation. join the discussion on our dedicated GitHub community. See more See more
Feed activity is now sorted chronologically February 14, 2025 ui In your homepage activity Feed, you can see activity from other users, content GitHub recommends for you in “Suggested for you” modules, and trending developers/repositories. The sorting algorithm we’ve had in place in the Feed could lead to these items being placed out of chronological sequence. We’ve heard your feedback, though, that the out-of-sequence ordering of activity can make it difficult to be effective with daily tasks in GitHub. So now, we’re sorting all activity in the Feed chronologically. The newest activity appears first and older activity appears as you scroll down your Feed. As part of this change, we also merged the design and UI to be more consistent across individual feeds and organization feeds, by slightly modifying the card layout in organization feeds. These minor template differences should not impact the content that appears for you. Learn more and give us your feedback For more information and discussion on these changes, join us in this discussion. See more See more