New webhook event actions are now live

As promised last month, we've expanded several webhook events with new functionality. Webhook events involving repositories, issues, and comments have all been updated to include new actions.

Repository events will now fire when a repository is deleted, made public, or made private. In addition, while repository creation events will still only fire for organizations, the new repository event actions can be delivered for user-owned repositories.

Events for issues, pull requests, and comments have also been updated and will now fire when these objects are edited or deleted. When an issue, pull request, or a comment has been edited, the event's payload will include a "changes" object. For example, if you've updated the title and body of an issue, the webhook payload informs you of what the issue used to look like:

{
  "action": "edited",
  "changes": {
    "title": { "from": "This is the old title." },
    "body": { "from": "This is the old body." }
  },
  "issue": {
    "title": "This is the new title.",
    "body": "This is the new body."
  }
}

The new values will be present in the issue object itself, as detailed above. Unchanged values will not be present within the changes object. Comment edits follow a similar pattern, though because they have no titles, the only change included in the payload would be the comment's body.

List of comprehensive changes

New actions were added to five events, all of which are detailed below.

RepositoryEvent

• deleted: sent when a user-owned or organization-owned repository is deleted.
• publicized: sent when a user-owned or organization-owned repository is switched from private to public.
• privatized: sent when a user-owned or organization-owned repository is switched from public to private.

IssuesEvent

• edited: sent when the title and/or body of an issue is edited.

IssueCommentEvent

• edited: sent when a comment on an issue or pull request is edited
• deleted: sent when a comment on an issue or pull request is deleted

PullRequestEvent

• edited: sent when the title and/or body of a pull request is edited.

PullRequestReviewCommentEvent

• edited: sent when a comment on a pull request's unified diff (in the Files Changed tab) is edited
• deleted: sent when a comment on a pull request's unified diff (in the Files Changed tab) is deleted

Take a look at the documentation for full details. If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch.