GitHub has just pushed out a new version of its GitHub Enterprise platform, which comes with a bunch of new features that first appeared in GitHub.com earlier this year.

The biggest change of version 2.8 is that the enterprise users of GitHub now have access to the GitHub Projects tool, which first came available to regular users in September. The tool, which can be deployed on public clouds like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, or in on-premises data centers, is designed to help users to organize and distribute work easily in the development cycle.

“With Projects, you can manage work directly from your GitHub repositories,” Chris Wanstrath, cofounder and chief executive of GitHub, wrote in a blog post earlier this year. “Create cards from Pull Requests, Issues or Notes and organize them into custom columns, whether it’s ‘In-progress,’ ‘Done,’ ‘Never going to happen’ or any other framework your team uses. Drag and drop the cards inside a column to prioritize them or move them from one column to another as your work progresses.”

GitHub Enterprise 2.8 also gives users the ability to perform code reviews on incoming pull requests. A spokesperson for GitHub told VentureBeat that more than 1.5 million pull requests with code reviews have been approved since the feature was launched.

User profiles have been updated too, with timelines showing their activity on GitHub. In addition, GitHub Enterprise now finally supports Jupyter notebooks, a web application that allows developers to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. This is a long-awaited feature for enterprise users, given that it first landed on GitHub.com back in 2015.

“Producing and sharing insights from data on GitHub is a common challenge for researchers and data scientists,” GitHub wrote in a blog post. “Jupyter notebooks make it easy to capture those data-driven workflows that combine code, equations, text, and visualizations. And now they render in all your GitHub repositories.”

Last of all, the new version comes with various security improvements for administrators, like being able to setup two-factor authentication at an organizational level, and more insights into LDAP issues, failed logins and server responsiveness.

GitHub Enterprise is priced at $2,500 for up to 10 users per year.

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