Improving the GHES release process: release candidates

In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability, and resilience. We know how | Continue reading


@github.blog | 3 years ago

Join our panel with WHO at GitHub Universe 2020!

The year 2020 has upended nearly every aspect of society. In a panel for GitHub Satellite back in May, we briefly covered some of the ways in which our social sector partner organizations, Hubbers, and | Continue reading


@github.blog | 3 years ago

GitHub Availability Report: November 2020

Here's the November 2020 Availability Report with updates on GitHub status from last month, including issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 3 years ago

The State of the Octoverse 2020

2020 has been a year of change and the State of the Octoverse has changed, too. Read our deep dives into dev productivity, security, and communities. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 3 years ago

The ReadME Project shares innovative paths to DevOps success

Each team has a unique path to success through DevOps. The ReadME Project showcases models, processes, toolchains, and lessons learned for businesses planning their DevOps journey or iterating their own best practices. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 3 years ago

Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes software engineering best practices

Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Whatcha watchin’? Custom notification controls

Earlier this year, we upgraded the notifications experience on GitHub, focusing on filters that get you straight to the updates that matter most to you. Just last week, we shipped an update that helps you | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

GitHub Archive Program: Making the archives beautiful

The GitHub Archive Program announces its latest milestone: storing collections of the most popular and depended upon open source repositories in beautiful art cases featuring 3D-printed and AI-generated artwork in significant libraries around the world. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Split Diffs in GitHub Desktop

The latest version of GitHub Desktop includes split diffs, PRs with Actions status, more control over stashing, and discarding changes from files. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged

As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material changes to these policies, we | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Release Radar · November 2020 Edition

The November Release Radar is here. Here are our top picks from the community's open source releases this month. Congratulations everyone. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Release Radar · November 2020 Edition

The November Release Radar is here. Here are our top picks from the community's open source releases this month. Congratulations everyone. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.  | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Veterans Day spotlight: Finding careers and camaraderie through code

Support for Vets including Jerome Hardaway, founder of Vets Who Code, and Code Platoon, both coding boot camps that teach fellow veterans how to become developers, find resources and connections. Read More | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

GitHub Availability October 2020

In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Commit your vote on election day

Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact your work as developers. Government | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement

Let your imagination run wild and create a game loosely based or inspired by the Moonshot theme using whatever game engines, libraries or languages you prefer before December 1, 13:37 PT. Work alone or as a team. Most importantly, have fun! | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend

WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were created for game jams, like | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”

Our latest Action hero is Eyal Posener who built Go Action - a way to make GitHub Actions more accessible for Go developers. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Getting Started with DevOps Automation

A quick walkthrough of DevOps automation concepts, best practices, plus advice for getting started. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster

Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Building GitHub: introduction

An introduction to our blog series on GitHub’s investments in technical excellence. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

A Quieter Dependabot

A quieter Dependabot | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off

Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month of November to build a | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

2020 GitHub Universe Micro-Mentoring Application

We’re thrilled to announce an opportunity to connect with employees at GitHub during GitHub Universe. This year, Universe will take place virtually December 8-10 and we’d love to “see” you there. As part of our | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Code Scanning a GitHub Repository Using GitHub Advanced Security Within an Azur

In this blog post we demonstrate how to integrate the GitHub Advanced Security code scanning capability into our Azure DevOps Pipelines. We provide code snippets and examples that can guide you or your developers working to integrate Code Scanning into any 3rd Party CI tool. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

DevOps best practices Q&A: Automated deployments at GitHub

How GitHub measures and improves reliability, security, and developer happiness with automated deployments. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source

November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

The NPM public roadmap and a new feedback process

npm is the world’s largest package registry, powering the world’s largest development community—JavaScript. Without them, npm would not be where it is today, and we know that maintaining open lines of communication and bringing transparency | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Using GitHub to power the new NPM roadmap

npm is the world’s largest package registry, powering the world’s largest development community—JavaScript. Without them, npm would not be where it is today, and we know that maintaining open lines of communication and bringing transparency | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Hacktoberfest e GitHub ¡Presente: celebrando comunidades open source em outubro

Outubro é um mês especial no mundo do desenvolvimento de software. Há 7 anos a Hacktoberfest — um festival que celebra a comunidade open source — incentiva pessoas desenvolvedoras a contribuir para projetos open source | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2020

Like our global community, we’ve had a year of challenges and extremes at GitHub, and I’m grateful everyday for our culture as our foundation of strength and resilience. We started our fiscal year in July | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

A Journey of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at GitHub

@demetris11 embarks on a journey of curiosity and discovery in her new role overseeing DI&B strategy at GitHub | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Git 2.29 Highlights

The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been released. One version later, let’s | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

GitHub Planeta Virtual Meetup

GitHub is excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for Russian-speaking developers, happening on Tuesday, November 17th. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement

We regularly update our policies to reflect the evolution of our products, changing legal requirements, and user feedback. In this update, we’ve made some changes to our Terms of Service, Privacy Statement, and other site | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn

Learn Day is a week-long global conference that allows hackers from around the world to pick up new skills and compete to show off how much you’ve learned on a leaderboard. Join us to attend workshops, network with fellow hackers, and hear talks from professional developers. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle

Google v. Oracle is the culmination of a decade-long dispute. Back in 2010, Oracle sued Google, arguing that Google's Android operating system infringed Oracle's rights in Java. After ten years, the dispute now boils down to whether Google's reuse of Java APIs in Android was copy … | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

How to get your organization started with containerized deployments

At GitHub, we've introduced container support in GitHub Packages, CI/CD through GitHub Actions, and partnered within the ecosystem to simplify cloud-native workflows. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Pachyderm and the power of GitHub Actions: MLOps meets DevOps

When Pachyderm links to declarative Git-based workflows, we can bring the smooth flow of CI/CD to the world of machine learning models. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

How we open sourced docs.github.com

A lot of work went into figuring out how to sync a public and private docs repo. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Even better code review in GitHub for mobile

In the newest version of GitHub for mobile, we’re shipping a bunch of features that make code review easier, faster, and more productive. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

npm 7.0.0 is out

We’re releasing v7.0.0 of the npm CLI, which includes exciting new features such as Workspaces, automatically installed peer deps, and more! | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Presenting v7.0.0 of the NPM CLI

We’re releasing v7.0.0 of the npm CLI, which includes exciting new features such as Workspaces, automatically installed peer deps, and more! | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition

The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in the know, js13kGames is a | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition

The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in the know, js13kGames is a | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Release Radar · October 2020 Edition

Want to see the latest and greatest releases from the open source community? We've pick the top 10 releases from October 2020. So kick back and read on. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago

Testing cloud apps with GitHub Actions and cloud-native open source tools

A common challenge that cloud native application developers face is manually testing against inconsistent environments. GitHub Actions can be triggered based on nearly any GitHub event making it possible to build in accountability for updating tests and fixing bugs. | Continue reading


@github.blog | 4 years ago