
The future of software development does not exist without open source. However, to maintain today’s software and create the software of the future, the largest organizations and beneficiaries of open source need to expand their collaboration with the community and help it grow.

Whether you’re committing 30 minutes or 3 hours a day to learning, consistency is key. Klint Finley asks 3 tech professionals at different stages in their career for more advice.

We’ve open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers.

This month’s featured open source project, Open Sauced, connects contributors and maintainers through analytical insights.

We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company!

As part of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6, enterprise customers will now be able to use GitHub Discussions.

GitHub Discussions and Audit Log Streaming, new automation features, and security enhancements are available now in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6.
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Melody Mileski·August 17, 2022Security 
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports.

Today, GitHub code scanning has all of LGTM.com’s key features—and more! The time has therefore come to announce the plan for the gradual deprecation of LGTM.com.

As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions.
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Chris Patterson, Yoann Chaudet·August 10, 2022SRE & Ops 
GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.

Supply chain attacks exploit our implicit trust of open source to hurt developers and our customers. Read our proposal for how npm will significantly reduce supply chain attacks by signing packages with Sigstore.
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Justin Hutchings·August 8, 2022Security 
Today, we’re expanding access to the GitHub security overview! All GitHub Enterprise customers now have access to the security overview, not just those with GitHub Advanced Security. Additionally, all users within an enterprise can now access the security overview, not just admins and security managers.
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Brittany O'Shea, Kelly Arwine·August 8, 2022Security 
While some of us have been wrapping up the financial year, and enjoying vacation time, others have been hard at work shipping open source projects and releases. These projects include…

From hosting private packages in a private repository to tightening your security profile with GITHUB_TOKEN, here are five simple ways you can streamline your workflow with GitHub Packages.
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Kristina Heidinger·August 4, 2022Security 
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance for Codespaces. This report also acknowledges two incidents that impacted multiple GitHub.com services in June.

Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.

Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.

GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68.

It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.

Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.

New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
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Myles Borins, Monish Mohan·July 26, 2022Security 
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.

We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.

From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.

July’s Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.

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.
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Albert Ziegler·July 14, 2022AI & ML 
Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.

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.

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.

New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
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Jose Palafox, Brittany O'Shea·July 1, 2022Security 
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.

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.

Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community.

Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.

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.

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.

The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
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Brian M. Carlson·June 28, 2022Security 
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
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Madison Ficorilli·June 27, 2022Security 
The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.

To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.

We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces.

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.
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Thomas Dohmke·June 21, 2022AI & ML 
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.

Expand the completeness of your dependency graph by using the dependency submission API, which will create more comprehensive alerts on supply chain vulnerabilities
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Courtney Claessens·June 17, 2022Security 
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…

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, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.

Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects.

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.
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Brittany O'Shea, Kate Catlin·June 15, 2022Security 
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub.

We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.

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.

How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?

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 is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance.

We’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing our Identity and Access Management solution: Entitlements.

Available in public beta today, we’re announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.