GitHub has launched the newest model of GitHub Enterprise Server, which is a self-hosted model of GitHub. 

“With this model, clients can select the right way to greatest scale their safety technique, achieve extra management over deployments, and a lot extra,” GitHub wrote in a weblog put up. 

Key highlights of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 embody the power to limit deployments to sure tag patterns, organization-wide repository rulesets that may be utilized to sure workflows, merge queues, and Dependabot alert guidelines.

Tag patterns enable customers to be extra particular about what will get deployed into manufacturing through GitHub Actions, offering an extra layer of safety and management. As an illustration, a developer might specify that solely issues with the “Releases/” tag be deployed into manufacturing.

One other safety enchancment is that customers can now outline and implement rulesets throughout a number of repositories. This replaces the legacy required workloads function, and any workflows that have been utilizing these have been robotically migrated to rulesets. 

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 additionally makes it simpler to automate department administration by the brand new merge queue function. Marge queue robotically checks {that a} PR is suitable with different adjustments and alerts builders if one thing is unsuitable. It does this by creating a short lived department that accommodates the newest adjustments from the bottom department, adjustments from different PRs within the queue, and the adjustments within the present PR. 

This launch additionally provides user-configured alert guidelines in Dependabot, which is a software that updates dependencies in initiatives. 

“With Dependabot, you possibly can proactively handle safety alerts to make sure high-priority objects are surfaced. With user-configured alert guidelines, now you can tailor your safety technique to your particular danger tolerance and contextual wants, streamlining alert triage and remediation processes,” GitHub wrote. 

Different options embody secret scanning for non-provider patterns (beta), help for all CodeQL languages, GitHub Mission templates on the organizational stage, improved international navigation, and the power to spotlight textual content in markdown information.