Meta

If you access this endpoint on your organization's GitHub Enterprise Server installation, this endpoint provides information about that installation.

Note: GitHub Enterprise release 2.17 and higher no longer allows admins to install new GitHub Services, and existing services will stop working in GitHub Enterprise release 2.20 and higher. You can use the Replacing GitHub Services guide to help you update your services to webhooks.

GET /meta

Response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "verifiable_password_authentication": true,
  "installed_version": "2.18.0",
  "github_services_sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15"
}

Body

Name	Type	Description
`verifiable_password_authentication`	`boolean`	Whether authentication with username and password is supported. GitHub Enterprise Server instances using CAS or OAuth for authentication will return `false`. Features like Basic Authentication with a username and password, sudo mode, and two-factor authentication are not supported on these servers.
`github_services_sha`	`string`	The currently-deployed SHA of `github-services`. GitHub Enterprise release 2.17 and higher no longer allows admins to install GitHub Services. Please see the Replacing GitHub Services guide for details.
`installed_version`	`string`	The currently installed version of GitHub Enterprise Server.