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Block users directly from security advisories

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You can now block a user directly from a security advisory page in public repositories owned by either an organization or a personal account. This brings the streamlined moderation experience available for issues and pull requests to security advisories.

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Track GitHub Code Quality enablement changes in the audit log

GitHub Code Quality now writes an audit log event whenever someone enables, disables, or changes its settings on a repository. Three new events give you that history: repo.code_quality_enabled records when someone turns on Code Quality for a repository. repo.code_quality_disabled records when someone turns it off.

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Track organization code quality trends

The organization-level Code Quality dashboard now includes a Trends tab that shows how code quality has changed across your repositories over time. Instead of a point-in-time snapshot, you can see whether open findings are trending up or down and which repositories are driving the change.

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Credential revocation and deauthorization by token type

Building on our self-service credential revocation experiences for incident response, you can now take token-type and user-specific actions to deauthorize and revoke user credentials during a security incident. This gives you finer-grained control when responding to a compromise.

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Multiple trusted publishing configurations for npm

We’re continuing to make trusted publishing smoother for npm publishers, guided by maintainers feedback. Three updates to npm publishing are now generally available: Multiple trusted publishing configurations per package Staged packages can only be approved after malware scanning is complete Maintainers can see their staged history in the package versions...

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License data quality improvements

GitHub now uses package registries like npmjs.org and PyPI to determine license information for software components in the dependency graph. This improves the accuracy and completeness of the licenses shown in dependency insights, software bills of materials (SBOMs), the open source license compliance feature in GitHub Advanced Security, and the dependency...

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npm extends recovery-code security holds to all accounts

npm now places a temporary 72-hour security hold on any account after a successful recovery-code sign-in, extending a protection that previously applied only to high-impact accounts. This change applies to all npm accounts. During the hold, publishing and other security-sensitive writes, including creating access tokens, are paused.

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