
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology.

Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.

AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.

Administrators, or enterprise owners, have the increased responsibility of managing their account and keeping it secure. We are excited to introduce what is new with enterprise accounts and what is coming soon.

We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.

Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more.
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Seth Juarez·November 22, 2022AI & ML 
How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch.

GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office.

Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.

In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!

GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.

We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.

Read this post in English Veja o que estamos construindo para aprimorar a plataforma de desenvolvimento mais integrada e que permite que pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas impulsionem a inovação com…

Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.

See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.

Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good.

In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters.

By our estimation at GitHub, over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have now implemented OSPOs. Here’s what that means for open source.

We think a lot about a high-profile supply chain attack that might cause developers, teams, and organizations to lose trust in open source. That’s why we’re investing in new ways to protect the open source ecosystem.
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Justin Hutchings·November 9, 2022Security 
We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects.

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is available now, including a single view of code risk, new forking and repository policies, and security enhancements to the management console.
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Melody Mileski, David Jarzebowski·November 8, 2022Security 
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations

This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.
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Kylie Stradley·November 3, 2022Security 
Developers creating Internet of Things software use a complex stack of software that needs to be custom built into their CI/CD platform. Arm is leveraging the simplicity and scalability of GitHub Actions with a native integration that will revolutionize IoT software development.

In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in September.

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?

We will begin to introduce several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot in 2023 to continue delivering responsible innovation and true happiness at the keyboard.
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Ryan J. Salva·November 1, 2022AI & ML 
We are pleased to announce the expansion of All In for Students! All In for Students introduces college students to open source and provides them with the education, technical training and career development to prepare them for a summer internship in tech.

A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles.

Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time.
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Lee Reilly·October 29, 2022Systems 
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
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Logan MacLaren·October 28, 2022Security 
Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to…

You can now build your agenda on GitHubUniverse.com! Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned industry professional, there’s a session for you.

The GitHub Security Lab provided office hours for open source projects looking to improve their security posture and reduce the risk of breach. Here’s what we learned and how you can also participate.
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Joseph Katsioloudes·October 27, 2022Security 
As GitHub continues to grow, our vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding our progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.

Explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices.

You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.

The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.
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Zachary Steindler·October 25, 2022Security 
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉

Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.

We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.

GitHub Actions changed how developers automate workflows with GitHub. Today, we’re introducing a new navigation to manage your GitHub Actions experience, improving discoverability and accessibility as well as opening up future feature opportunities.

Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
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Hirsch Singhal·October 18, 2022Security 
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.

Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.

GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
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Mike Linksvayer·October 14, 2022AI & ML 
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) alerts with Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) tools. Check out the integrations, and read more about getting started.

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.

Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.

Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
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Brittany O'Shea, Niroshan Rajadurai·October 11, 2022Engineering 
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta.

We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.

Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
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Eric Tooley, Courtney Claessens·October 6, 2022Security 
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.

Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
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Brittany O'Shea, Mariam Sulakian·October 5, 2022Security 
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.

Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.

GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.

Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations.

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.38.