How GitHub accelerates development for embedded systems
In a world where software and hardware is ubiquitous, GitHub can help enable secure development for mission-critical embedded systems.
Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA.
How GitHub Docs’ new search works
GitHub Docs recently changed its site-search to Elasticsearch. Here’s how it was implemented.
Multi-repository variant analysis: a powerful new way to perform security research across GitHub
Multi-repository variant analysis lets you scale security research across thousands of repositories, giving you a powerful tool to find and respond to newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Application security orchestration with GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time.
GitHub Galaxy 2023: your guide to building a more flexible and productive software development cycle
Join us virtually on March 28-31 for GitHub Galaxy, a global enterprise event focused on improving efficiency, security, and developer productivity.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8 is now generally available
With updates to GitHub Actions, repositories, and GitHub Advanced Security, this new version of GitHub Enterprise Server is focused on bringing the best developer experience to companies.
File editing on GitHub Mobile keeps leveling up
Commit an update to a pull request, or start a new branch to squash a bug at any time, wherever you are using the GitHub Mobile apps.
Unleash your potential with GitHub Octernships: a path to a thriving tech career
Empowering the next generation of students in tech with real-world industry experience.
How to automate your dev environment with dev containers and GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces.
Release Radar
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us…
GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub: Here’s what they found
The GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub, an open source metadata platform, and discovered several vulnerabilities in the platform’s authentication and authorization modules. These vulnerabilities could have enabled an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to sensitive data stored on the platform.
GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request
GitHub Desktop helps you feel confident in your Git and GitHub workflows.
See you at SCaLE! 🐧
SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It takes place next week in Pasadena, CA from March 9-12, 2023 and we’ll be there!
Why Python keeps growing, explained
A deep dive into why more people are using Python than ever, its key use cases, and why it’s still so popular 30-plus years after it was first released.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2023
In February, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a January incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages and another January incident that impacted Git users.
GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available
We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitHub Actions Importer. GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI…
GitHub Actions: Introducing faster GitHub-hosted x64 macOS runners
Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.
How to build a consistent workflow for development and operations teams
Explore how using GitHub and HashiCorp together enables enterprises to develop and ship to their customers faster and more secure with consistent workflows and actions.
10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Codespaces
Unlock the full potential of GitHub Codespaces with these 10 tips and tricks! From generating AI images to running self-guided coding workshops, discover how to optimize your software development workflow with this powerful tool.
Secret scanning alerts are now available (and free) for all public repositories
Secret scanning alerts are now generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.
3 ways to meet compliance needs without slowing down agility
Learn how to enable developer productivity and collaboration while staying secure and compliant. Stay compliant without slowing down your business. From security to CI/CD, automate every step of your software workflow—so your developers can stay focused on what matters most: building.
Measuring government policy on open source with a new dataset
Policymakers around the world are developing policies that impact how software gets built and who gets to build it, see the latest now.
The code that wasn’t there: Reading memory on an Android device by accident
CVE-2022-25664, a vulnerability in the Qualcomm Adreno GPU, can be used to leak large amounts of information to a malicious Android application. Learn more about how the vulnerability can be used to leak information in both the user space and kernel space level of pages, and how the GitHub Security Lab used the kernel space information leak to construct a KASLR bypass.
A beginner’s guide to learning to code with GitHub Codespaces
When you’re new to coding, it’s easy to get stuck completing endless tutorials. You can apply what you’ve learned (and learn even more) through GitHub Codespaces. The best part is you don’t need a powerful computer to get started.
Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot boosts developer productivity, but using it responsibly still requires good developer and DevSecOps practices.
Update on the future stability of source code archives and hashes
A look at what happened on January 30, what measures we’re putting in place to prevent surprises, and how we’ll handle future changes.
ICYMI: CodeQL enhancements
Learn about CodeQL’s improved user experience and enhancements that let you scan new languages, detect new types of CWEs, and perform deeper analyses of your applications.
2022 Transparency Report
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.
GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities
We’re launching new improvements to GitHub Copilot to make it more powerful and more responsive for developers.
GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
GitHub Copilot is the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool and we’re now offering it to every developer, team, organization, and enterprise.
Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate
Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc.
Release Radar, Festive Edition
Welcome to our special edition of the Release Radar 🎄. Between Christmas festivities, end of the year parties, Chinese New Year, or simply enjoying some time off, almost everyone has…
The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index.
How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
Ludum Dare 52 staff picks 🕹
We’ve got ten top games from the latest Ludum Dare game jam plus source code for you to check out. Pun intended.
Europe’s chance to be a leader in the age of AI
Below are my prepared remarks delivered at the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels on Feb 3rd.
How the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects
Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.
Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions
What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!
Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities.
Open source’s impact on the world’s 100 million developers
We’re taking a look at how open source software has evolved on GitHub, and how the role of a maintainer and contributor has changed alongside the massive growth in open source software.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2023
In January, we experienced two incidents, one that resulted in degraded performance for Packages and Pages and another that impacted Git users.
Skilling for the future: How GitHub is advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source communities
In the coming months, we’re scaling, expanding, and launching new programming to further DEI within open source communities.
Action needed for GitHub Desktop and Atom users
Update to the latest version of Desktop and previous version of Atom before February 2.
Bypassing OGNL sandboxes for fun and charities
Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. Learn more about bypassing certain OGNL injection protection mechanisms including those used by Struts and Atlassian Confluence, as well as different approaches to analyzing this form of protection so you can harden similar
Setting the foundations for compliance
Laying the groundwork for developer-enabled compliance.
100 million developers and counting
There are now 100 million developers around the world using GitHub. Here’s what this means—and why it’s just the beginning.
Introducing the GitHub Bug Bounty swag store
We’re excited to share the newest addition to our GitHub Bug Bounty Program!
Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app.
Unpacking the value of open source and code collaboration
We’re more excited than ever about what the future holds and the role open source will continue to play in solving critical societal challenges.
Sunsetting Subversion support
On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.
Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
How to tap into the power of GitHub Actions from anywhere with GitHub Mobile!
Unlocking security updates for transitive dependencies with npm
How Dependabot integrated with npm to address security vulnerabilities on transitive dependencies and increase the likelihood of success for JavaScript security updates by 40%.
How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.
Remediation made simple: Introducing new validity checks for GitHub tokens
GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts.
Dependabot alerts are now visible to more developers
Default settings will allow developers with write and maintain access to see and resolve Dependabot alerts.
3 common DevOps antipatterns and cloud native strategies that can help
Explore how GitHub and cloud native strategies can help you address common DevOps pipeline and team antipatterns.
Game Off 2022 winners 🏆
All of the winners and some of the best games from Game Off 2022.
New GitHub CLI extension tools
Support for GitHub CLI extensions has been expanded with new authorship tools and more ways to discover and install custom commands. Learn how to write powerful extensions in Go and find new commands to install.
A smarter, quieter Dependabot
Dependabot is getting a little smarter—and, a little quieter—by reducing bot-based noise from repositories based on your interaction with Dependabot.