How to find, verify, and report open source vulnerabilities using GitHub tools
This blog post is an in-depth walkthrough on how we perform security research leveraging GitHub features, including code scanning, CodeQL, and Codespaces.
Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we’ve added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.
Empowering women through open source
A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward.
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.
Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL
Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.
Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that allows a malicious app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on an Android phone. I’ll show how this vulnerability can be exploited even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a powerful mitigation, is enabled on the device.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2024
In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Exploring an increase in circumvention claims in our transparency data
Our full year of 2023 transparency reporting data is now available and we’re taking a deep dive into how a form change caused an abrupt increase in circumvention claims.
Hard and soft skills for developers coding in the age of AI
While AI revolutionizes software development, it still relies on developers to pilot its use. In this blog, we’ll cover the skills that developers need to have for navigating this new AI-powered coding frontier.
How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day
Here’s how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 is now generally available
With this version, customers can choose how to best scale their security strategy, gain more control over deployments, and so much more.
Keeping repository maintainer information accurate
Discover how keeping repository maintainer information accurate through CODEOWNERS files and automating maintenance with tools like cleanowners fosters efficient collaboration and sustainable software projects.
GitHub Copilot Learning Pathway: Accelerate your business with AI
Learn what GitHub Copilot can help your business achieve in this expert-guided GitHub Learning Pathway, featuring insights from tech leaders at top organizations.
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
Meet Kayla: A college student and open source ambassador
From learner to mentor, Kayla, an All In for Students ambassador, has become an open source leader on her campus.
Keeping secrets out of public repositories
With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations.
Customizing and fine-tuning LLMs: What you need to know
Learn how your organization can customize its LLM-based solution through retrieval augmented generation and fine-tuning.
How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned
Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle.
Highlights from Git 2.44
The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.44.
How AI code generation works
Explore the capabilities and benefits of AI code generation, and how it can improve the developer experience for your enterprise.
Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot
Whether you’re coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app.
Repo-jacking explained: How it works and how to protect your GitHub projects
Repo-jacking is a specific type of supply chain attack. This blog post explains what it is, what the risk is, and what you can do to stay safe.
Empowering all developers to build without barriers
GitHub has been awarded the 2024 Axe Accessibility at Scale Award from Deque Systems. Read more about how we’ve implemented accessibility at scale.
Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions!
GitHub Availability Report: January 2024
In January, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI
A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix.
Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces
The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using GitHub Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.
Powering advancements of AI in the open: Apply now to GitHub Accelerator
Funding AI advancements in the open, and opening applications for second Accelerator cohort.
Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts
We listened to your feedback and released new versions (v4) of actions/upload-artifact and actions/download-artifact. While this version of the actions to upload and download artifacts includes up to 10x performance improvements and several new features, there are also key differences from previous versions that may require updates to your workflows.
The architecture of SAST tools: An explainer for developers
More developers will have to fix security issues in the age of shifting left. Here, we break down how SAST tools can help them find and address vulnerabilities.
Copilot in GitHub Support is now available!
Experience AI-powered assistance for queries related to GitHub topics.
GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility
The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.
AppSec is harder than you think. Here’s how AI can help.
In practice, shifting left has been more about shifting the burden rather than the ability. But AI is bringing its promise closer to reality. Here’s how.
Release Radar
Get excited for this month’s Release Radar. Maintainers were hard at work this past month, shipping major updates for you all. Read on for our top staff picks.
Do you know if all your repositories have up-to-date dependencies?
Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.
GitHub Fund 2024 and beyond: Looking to the future
Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going.
How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development
Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at GitHub.
A guide to open source for the social sector
Calling all nonprofits! Do you want to implement open source software but don’t know where to start? We’ve got good news; you can easily get started by consulting our new guide.
Yes, good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data.
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important)
Explore what flow state entails, its benefits, and three tips for reaching it the next time you code.
10 unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is widely known for its code generation feature. Learn how the AI assistant’s abilities can extend beyond just code generation.
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere
Explore the August 2023 edition, featuring easy tips and tricks for GitHub Mobile.
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer collaboration
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q3 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2023
In December, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
As we look to empower developers with AI tools, we inadvertently integrate AI deeper into the way developers work. How do developers feel about that? And what are the most impactful ways to introduce more AI into workflows? We recently conducted 25 in-depth interviews with developers to understand exactly that.
Rotating credentials for GitHub.com and new GHES patches
GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI
During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects.
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the 10 highest-rated submissions overall.
GitHub Certifications are generally available
Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert.
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag
The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!
Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools
When socializing a new security tool, it IS possible to build a bottom-up security culture where engineering has a seat at the table. Let’s explore some effective strategies witnessed by the GitHub technical sales team to make this shift successful.
5 ways to make your DevSecOps strategy developer-friendly
Developers care about security, but poorly integrated tools and other factors can cause frustration. Here are five best practices to reduce friction.
Our move to generated SDKs
GitHub SDKs: software generated meets hand curated.
GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.