diff --git a/content/library/overview/release-notes.md b/content/library/overview/release-notes.md index 473a289..d6e59ca 100644 --- a/content/library/overview/release-notes.md +++ b/content/library/overview/release-notes.md @@ -9,80 +9,40 @@ next: library/scenarios Find general updates here on new content, feature enhancements, and improvements that help teams architect and optimize deployments of the tools that support their development communities. -## 2025 Q3 - -- **Repository Management Enhancement** - - Updated the "Managing repositories at scale" article with opinionated guidance on adopting rulesets and custom properties to meet business objectives - - Enhanced enterprise governance recommendations with actionable ruleset implementation strategies - -- **GitHub Actions Policy Updates** - - Updated Actions recommendation with new policy capabilities from recent GitHub releases - - Enhanced governance and security recommendations for workflow management at-scale +## 2025 Q4 -- **New Content: GitHub Copilot Enterprise Administration** - - Published an enterprise administrative playbook for managing GitHub Copilot Premium Request Units (PRUs) - - Includes detailed budget configuration frameworks, KPI targets, monitoring procedures, and cost control strategies - - Features operational procedures, cost management strategies, and administrative workflows essential for effective enterprise-scale deployment +- **New Content: Actions Runner Controller (ARC) best practices** - Published an opinionated guidance for operating ARC on Kubernetes, including recommendations for runner images, configuration, observability, and security trade-offs +- **New Content: Securing developer workspace** - Published an design guidance for hardening developer workspaces, including identity and authorization, workspace isolation, and signed commit practices +- **Update: Securing GitHub Actions workflows** - Added opinionated guidance for OIDC, repository rulesets, and safer workflow patterns, with specific recommendations for public repository security -- **New Content: Security Alert Management** - - Published a scenario for prioritizing security alert remediation using GitHub's built-in metadata and organizational context, including practical guidance on implementing GitHub's security campaigns and vulnerability triage workflows +## 2025 Q3 -- **New Content: Champion Program** - - Published a recommendation for champion programs that empower engaged employees to guide peers through AI-driven change. +- **Update: Repository Management Enhancement** - Updated the "Managing repositories at scale" article with opinionated guidance on adopting rulesets and custom properties to meet business objectives, including actionable strategies for governance at scale +- **Update: GitHub Actions Policy Updates** - Updated the GitHub Actions recommendations with new policy capabilities and more prescriptive governance and security guidance for managing workflows at scale +- **New Content: GitHub Copilot Enterprise Administration** - Published an enterprise playbook for managing GitHub Copilot Premium Request Units (PRUs), including budget configuration, KPI targets, monitoring, and cost control strategies +- **New Content: Security Alert Management** - Published a scenario for prioritizing security alert remediation using GitHub's built-in metadata and organizational context, including practical guidance on implementing GitHub's security campaigns and vulnerability triage workflows +- **New Content: Champion Program** - Published a recommendation for champion programs that empower engaged employees to guide peers through AI-driven change. ## 2025 Q2 -- **New Content: Azure DevOps Migration Guide** - - Published a set of migration scenarios and playbooks for transitioning from Azure DevOps to GitHub - - These include detailed migration phases, feature comparisons, and administrative transition guidance, with practical examples for translating Azure DevOps settings to GitHub equivalents - -- **New Content: Engineering System Success Framework** - - Published the Engineering System Success Framework for business to evaluate business value of Copilot - - Added related design principles, checklists, metrics, implementation phases, anti-patterns, and intervention strategies - -- **Site Improvements** - - Introduced a new Copilot Chat Widget that provides interactive assistance for users +- **New Content: Azure DevOps Migration Guide** - Published migration scenarios and playbooks for transitioning from Azure DevOps to GitHub, including phased approaches, feature comparisons, and practical guidance for translating Azure DevOps settings to GitHub equivalents +- **New Content: Engineering System Success Framework** - Published the Engineering System Success Framework to help organizations evaluate Copilot business value, including design principles, checklists, metrics, implementation phases, anti-patterns, and intervention strategies +- **Site Improvements** - Introduced a new Copilot Chat Widget that provides interactive assistance for users ## 2025 Q1 -- **New Content: GitHub Actions Scalability** - - Published new guidance for scaling GitHub Actions reusability in enterprise environments to improve organizational efficiency and reducing workflow duplication at scale - - Added detailed best practices for workflow optimization, action management, and enterprise-wide deployment strategies - -- **New Content: Repository Migration Essentials** - - Introduced generalized repository migration checklist covering pre-planning, testing, execution, and post-migration phases - - Provides well-known single source of truth for migration processes across different platforms - - Structured approach for organizations planning repository transitions with community collaboration framework - -- **Design Principle Updates** - - Expanded real-world examples for the **Collaboration** and **Application Security** pillars, offering clearer guidance on pull request best practices and early vulnerability scanning - - Refined the **Architecture** pillar with new considerations for multi-region deployments - -- **Checklists 2.0** - - Overhauled the assessment checklists to align with recent GitHub product updates (e.g., enhanced code scanning, improved secret scanning) - - Introduced tiers to help teams prioritize actions based on their current maturity level - -- **Fixes & Refinements** - - Updated language in the **Governance** and **Productivity** design principle pages to improve clarity - - Revised the main navigation for quicker access to new scenarios and checklists - - Refreshed the homepage layout and branding - - Modularized the site's hosting template to simplify ongoing maintenance and updates +- **New Content: GitHub Actions Scalability** - Published guidance for scaling GitHub Actions reusability in enterprise environments, including best practices for workflow optimization, action management, and enterprise-wide deployment +- **New Content: Repository Migration Essentials** - Introduced a generalized repository migration checklist covering pre-planning, testing, execution, and post-migration, designed to serve as a single source of truth across migration approaches +- **Design Principle Updates** - Expanded real-world examples across pillars, including clearer guidance on pull request best practices, early vulnerability scanning, and multi-region deployment considerations +- **Checklists 2.0** - Overhauled the assessment checklists to align with recent GitHub product updates and introduced tiers to help teams prioritize actions based on maturity +- **Fixes & Refinements** - Improved clarity and usability with refinements to pillar content, navigation, homepage layout, and the hosting template for simpler ongoing maintenance ## 2024 Q4 -- **General Availability (GA) and Well-Architected MVP Launch** - - Transitioned from beta to GA with a fully published structure around the five pillars - - Introduced curated examples and illustrations that demonstrate practical implementations of each pillar -- **Initial Tooling & Assessment Checklists** - - Provided downloadable checklists for customers to self-assess alignment with WAF's pillars - - Gathered early adoption feedback to inform the Checklists 2.0 release -- **Design Principles and Content Highlights** - - Published an in-depth overview of all five pillars: **Productivity**, **Collaboration**, **Application Security**, **Governance**, and **Architecture** - - Co-authored an initial set of design principles with **KPMG** and our **Partner Community** - - Added a high-level scenario to guide teams just starting with GitHub Enterprise -- **Early Feedback Incorporations** - - Streamlined site layouts and navigation, based on user suggestions from the beta, for a cleaner, more intuitive reading experience - - Expanded content library articles on common deployment scenarios, including **scaling Git repositories** and enforcing **GHAS at scale** +- **General Availability (GA) and Well-Architected MVP Launch** - Transitioned from beta to GA with a fully published structure around the five pillars, including curated examples and illustrations that demonstrate practical implementations +- **Initial Tooling & Assessment Checklists** - Provided downloadable checklists for customers to self-assess alignment with the framework and gathered early adoption feedback to inform Checklists 2.0 +- **Design Principles and Content Highlights** - Published an in-depth overview of the five pillars (Productivity, Collaboration, Application Security, Governance, and Architecture), co-authored an initial set of design principles with KPMG and our Partner Community, and added a high-level scenario for teams starting with GitHub Enterprise +- **Early Feedback Incorporations** - Streamlined site layouts and navigation based on beta feedback, and expanded scenario guidance including scaling Git repositories and enforcing GHAS at scale ## Future Plans & Roadmap