The 2.18 series release notes contain important changes in this release series.

Security Fixes

• Packages have been updated to the latest security versions.

Bug Fixes

• The hotpatch mechanism did not properly handle the case where extracted patch contents were no longer present on the filesystem.
• A maximum Git object size of 100MB option could not be selected for a repository when the global enterprise account had a Git object size option other than 100MB set.
• Results from the the Issues and Pull Requests API could have inconsistent behaviour when ordering by the updated_at field.
• The SecurityVulnerability package field could not be queried via the GraphQL API.

Known Issues

• On a freshly set up GitHub Enterprise Server without any users, an attacker could create the first admin user.
• Custom firewall rules are not maintained during an upgrade.
• Subversion (SVN) checkout may timeout while the repository data cache is being built. In most cases, subsequent Subversion checkout attempts will succeed.
• Git LFS tracked files uploaded through the web interface are incorrectly added directly to the repository.
• Issues cannot be closed if they contain a permalink to a blob in the same repository where the file path is longer than 255 characters.
• When "Users can search GitHub.com" is enabled with GitHub Connect, issues in private and internal repositories are not included in GitHub.com search results.
• Security alerts are not reported when pushing to a repository on the command line. (updated 2020-06-23)

Thanks!

The GitHub Team