GitHub Desktop 2.8 includes expanding diffs, hiding whitespace, and repository aliases

April 28, 2021

GitHub Desktop 2.8 now allows you to:

Expand diffs to view more context around the changes
Hide whitespace in diffs to view substantive changes more easily
Create aliases for repositories in Desktop to differentiate between them more easily

Learn more about each of these new features and see them in action in today's blog post.

GitHub Pages: Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() Header added to all pages sites

April 27, 2021

All GitHub Pages sites served from the github.io domain will now have a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header set.

Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted.

April 22, 2021

GitHub actions will now require a collaborator with write access to take action to run workflows from first time users in pull requests.