Allison reviews the key updates in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18, highlighting new tools for deployment, monitoring, security, and project management for enterprise teams.

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18 Release Overview

Author: Allison

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.18 introduces significant improvements for teams managing enterprise-scale software development and security. Below are the main highlights of this release:

Key Improvements

  • Enterprise Administration:
  • Project & Issue Management:
    • Organize and classify issues with custom issue types and sub-issues for improved tracking.
    • Leverage advanced search (supporting AND, OR, and parentheses) for better querying.
    • Projects now scale up to 50,000 managed items (previous limit: 1,200).
    • Updated Issues dashboard (*.com/issues) for easier discovery and saved queries. Details on evolving GitHub Issues., Saved views documentation.
  • Security Enhancements:
    • Improved code scanning alerts now include a “Development” section to visualize when security issues are introduced, resolved, or reintroduced. This helps track resolution lifecycles and support better governance.
    • Learn more about code scanning alert tracking.
  • Dependabot Scaling:
    • Organization administrators can now grant Dependabot access to repositories at the organization level, with Advanced Security customers able to enable access permanently organization-wide. An improved UI supports point-in-time access configuration.
    • Details on Dependabot access management.
  • Monitoring & Observability:
    • Operators can monitor GHES appliances using OpenTelemetry metrics (preview, preproduction only) and export metrics to Prometheus and third-party systems. The previous collectd metrics will be deprecated in a future update, so migration is recommended. OpenTelemetry metrics usage.

Additional Resources

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