Get Ready for an Action-packed Universe! - Community Check-in

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👋 Hope you’ve had a positively aMAYzing month so far. This week, I bring you some thrilling new updates, teasers, and love from all corners of the Actions community. Let’s dive into this!

New to GitHub? New To Actions? 🛝

Are you new to GitHub Actions? We built an Actions playground to help you get started! 🕺

We've got everything fired up and running for you to explore GitHub Actions.

Go to this link to Start Learning Today: http://gh.io/actionsplayground

💌 From the Community - Shoutout 📢 to these members

• A great solution provided by @MikeMcC399 👏 helping @ksully-execute find a actions/checkout in Marketplace search. Thanks for sharing your expertise and making this community a thriving space for users to help each other.
• A huge round of applause for @hrishikesh-kocharekar-dev for consistently helping users in the community. Here’s one great example where they provided a pertinent solution to let @vitalyk-multinarity download the latest release of GHA runner.

Save the date 📆 GitHub Universe 2023 is Back!

This is really exciting! GitHub Universe is back and we are thrilled to announce the in-person hybrid event this November 8-9. So, don’t forget to reserve your spots.🥳

GitHub.Universe.2023.Teaser.mp4

👉 80+ sessions on AI, security, and developer experience.

📍 In-person in San Francisco or online.

🗓 Stay in the know: Add to Calendar

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Latest Ships 🚢 in Actions

Introducing Actions on the Repository view on GitHub Mobile 📱

It’s here! Actions are coming to your Repositories on GitHub Mobile! Find all your repository's workflows in one convenient place.

A run didn't go as planned? No problem. Toggle the new debug-switch when re-running a workflow to see what's going on under the hood, just like you would on GitHub.com.

Read more about GitHub Mobile and share your feedback to help us improve. 🚀

All Actions will run on Node16 instead of Node12 ❗

With Node 12 having been out of support since April 2022, we plan to migrate use of all actions to run on Node16 and enforce its usage starting May18th.
What you need to do ❓

• For Actions maintainers: Update your actions to run on Node 16 instead of Node 12 (Actions configuration settings)
• For Actions users: Update your workflows with latest versions of the actions which runs on Node 16 (Using versions for Actions)

Actions Runner Controller Public Beta 🆕

Auto scaling self hosted runners using the actions runner controller and runner scale sets is now in public beta. To learn more about scaling self hosted runners, check out the Actions Docs

To stay on top of the latest releases, bookmark the - GitHub Public Roadmap 🗺️ and GitHub Blogpost 📖

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Good Reads

• The ReadME Project: Small enhancements to daily workflows can have an outsized impact on the amount of available space in our day. See how tools like GitHub Actions can improve your productivity through incremental automation.

• How to Manage Your Writing Schedule With GitHub Actions by @ImBIOS
  Love ❤️ reading📚 ? Love GitHub! Discover 🌐 the scalable Continuous Integration (CI) patterns that can help your team grow significantly

• The Discover Category has been thriving and we have some great content from subject matter experts and industry leaders that you should not miss out on. Read this masterpiece from @ayodejiayodele where he has explained some of the common pitfalls that often plague DevOps teams or organization