Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition
July’s Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.
Research: How GitHub Copilot helps improve developer productivity
We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.
Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community
Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.
GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.
Extend your dependency information in the GitHub Dependency Graph with new GitHub Actions
New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.
What to do when your open source project becomes a community?
Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community.
Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.
The Chromium super (inline cache) type confusion
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I’ll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server
The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Highlights from Git 2.37
The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.
Thank you to our maintainers
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.
What’s new in Codespaces for Organizations
We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces.
GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
GitHub enables the development of functional safety applications by adding support for coding standards AUTOSAR C++ and CERT C++
GitHub is excited to announce the release of CodeQL queries that implement the standards CERT C++ and AUTOSAR C++. These queries can aid developers looking to demonstrate ISO 26262 Part 6 process compliance.
Creating a more comprehensive dependency graph with build time detection
Expand the completeness of your dependency graph by using the dependency submission API, which will create more comprehensive alerts on supply chain vulnerabilities
Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. We cover what the…
The Android kernel mitigations obstacle race
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-22057, a use-after-free in the Qualcomm gpu kernel driver, to gain root and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox on a Samsung Z flip 3. I’ll look at various mitigations that are implemented on modern Android devices and how they affect the exploit.
Git Merge 2022
Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.
Prebuilding codespaces is generally available
Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects.
GitHub now publishes malware advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database
To combat the prevalence of malware in the open source ecosystem, GitHub now publishes malware occurrences in the GitHub Advisory Database. These advisories power Dependabot alerts and remain forever free and usable by the community.
Accelerating GitHub theme creation with color tooling
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub.
How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.
Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Modos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being.
Implementing a robust digital identity
How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?
How we think about browsers
Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience.
Dependabot Updates hit GA in GHES
Dependabot is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance.
Introducing Entitlements: GitHub’s open source Identity and Access Management solution
We’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing our Identity and Access Management solution: Entitlements.
Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey
Available in public beta today, we’re announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.
Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
Start your open source journey with Community Exchange
Are you a student who is new to open source or just starting your maintainer journey? GitHub Global Campus’ Community Exchange can help you make that first contribution or grow your open source project.
One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world.
Introducing GitHub Skills
Today, we’re announcing GitHub Skills, a new learning experience to help you throughout your GitHub journey.
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Rust community
The Rust community can now discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.
A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub
CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows.
Making technical interviews better for everyone
How to interview for skill, not spare time.
What’s new in security and user management for GitHub Enterprise
Learn how you can securely manage users with the latest ships for GitHub Enterprise.
GitHub All In: Our first student cohort and what’s next
Join us on the GitHub All In journey.
GitHub Team or Free? How to choose the right plan
Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you.
Welcome to Maintainer Month 2022! 🎉
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2022
In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April.
Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
Several ways for GitHub-hosted Actions runners to connect to resources on your private network.
GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Brazil—an exciting expansion for one of our fastest growing developer communities.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security.
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them.
npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt.
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use.
GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away!
Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021!
Release Radar
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect.
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions.
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next.
Securing and delivering high-quality code with innersource metrics
With innersource, it’s important to measure both the amount of innersource activity and the quality of the code being created. Here’s how.
How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization.