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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

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