The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. | Continue reading
GitHub Actions: Reduce duplication with action composition | Continue reading
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t | Continue reading
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. | Continue reading
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary today, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories! If you like RTS, FPS, space | Continue reading
To increase our transparency, we’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually, with more granularity to our 2020 stats. | Continue reading
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. | Continue reading
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. | Continue reading
We're excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files. | Continue reading
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality. | Continue reading
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features and changes. | Continue reading
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub. | Continue reading
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more. | Continue reading
Git password authentication is shutting down | Continue reading
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code. | Continue reading
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development. | Continue reading
The August 2021 GitHub Campus Expert applications are officially open. Apply by August 29 or learn more about the program! | Continue reading
This mid-year Release Radar features everything from world changing tech to weekend hobbies. These projects are shipped by the community, for the community. | Continue reading
Machine translation for Discussions content | Continue reading
In July, GitHub experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce new integrations with open source security tools that broaden our language coverage to include PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, and more. | Continue reading
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases. | Continue reading
A redesigned new user onboarding experience | Continue reading
Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects. | Continue reading
GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities. | Continue reading
The GitHub Education Stream Team is adding new shows. Job-hunting graduate? New to coding? No matter where you are, there's a show for you. | Continue reading
Issues forms beta for public repositories | Continue reading
Quality-of-life improvements to GitHub Issues, confirmation dialog when you send a review request to a large team, new CodeQL functionalities, and more! | Continue reading
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters. | Continue reading
In June, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. | Continue reading
Our machine learning scientists have been researching ways to enable the semantic search of code. | Continue reading
Today, we're launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. | Continue reading
GitHub’s bug bounty program is a mature component of our product security. Check out recent milestones (and interesting vulnerabilities)! | Continue reading
Announcing the newest addition to the Student Developer Pack, the GitHub Virtual Event Kit! Access the best virtual event tools in one place at no cost. | Continue reading
Announcing new beta features for GitHub Issues for better planning and tracking of your projects in GitHub, including project tables, task lists, and issue forms. | Continue reading
We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub. | Continue reading
Throughout the beta, we added features to improve the experience of using the Container registry. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Container registry is generally available as part of GitHub Packages! | Continue reading
The latest version of GitHub Desktop allows you to squash commits, squash and merge, reorder, amend your last commit, check out a branch from a previous commit, and more. | Continue reading
What began as a small group effort in 2015 has now turned into a global initiative here at GitHub to amplify Black voices and talent in the tech community. | Continue reading
In May, GitHub shipped a total of 20 new features, from video support and an improved mobile experience to labels for Discussions - and much more! | Continue reading
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit. As a member of GitHub Security Lab, my job | Continue reading
An introduction to secrets, GitHub secret scanning, the open source supply chain, and why revoking package registry credentials is so important. | Continue reading
One month ago, we started a discussion with the community about proposed revisions to clarify GitHub’s policies on security research, malware, and exploits with the goal to enable, welcome, and encourage dual-use security research and | Continue reading
The Release Radar showcases some great community open source projects. Read on to discover more about these projects that shipped major versions. | Continue reading
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 is now generally available for all customers. It helps customers work with large, busy repositories, while enabling developers to develop and deploy with less effort than ever. This release includes: GitHub | Continue reading
In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services. | Continue reading
Read about the refreshed mission statement, updated website and what’s ahead for GitHub Social Impact. | Continue reading
Dependabot version updates can now ignore major/minor/patch releases | Continue reading