During
GitHub Universe 2019, GitHub announced Actions, a feature that helps developers automate their DevOps workflows. At the 2020 event, GitHub announced it is improving the continuous deployment capabilities of Actions with workflow visualizations.
Earlier this year at the GitHub Satellite virtual conference, GitHub announced an early preview of its Discussion service that provides threaded discussion that is now being moved into public beta.
Another capability that GitHub is improving is Sponsors. First announced in May 2019, Sponsors enables users to support or sponsor developers. GitHub Sponsors has already been a game-changer for developers, including some who ve been able to quit their jobs and go full-time as professional open-source developers, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman