Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Security Officer
The world runs on software, and a large portion of it, especially the open source software that’s part of everything we experience, is built by millions of developers on GitHub…
Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders
February is Black History Month in the US and Canada, a month when we celebrate our amazing Black/African American heritage and what it represents in our society, our work, and…
Let’s talk about tech internships
Are you a student developer looking to land an internship? We’ve got answers! We recently sat down with Co.Lab Co-founder Helen Huang on GitHub Campus TV to find out how…
Dr. Bernice King on how technology can transform the Black economy
As technology transforms the global economy, Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, is striving to make sure these new economic opportunities are available…
Open source in the 5G stack
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital sovereignty. One…
Your guide to Developer Experience Week at GitHub InFocus
This year we hosted our first all-virtual GitHub Universe—and you tuned in to join us from 174 regions around the world! We knew there was even more to cover, so…
MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, welcomes American Express and Adobe to the Summer 2021 Program
Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility…
Introducing GitHub Campus TV!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of GitHub Campus TV! With new shows every week, tune in to hear from experts, participate in workshops, and join a community of passionate…
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 is now generally available
Today we’re announcing general availability of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0. Introduced during the GitHub Universe 2020 keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server. Every company using GitHub can…
Avoiding npm substitution attacks
Supply chain attacks are a reality in modern software development. Thankfully, you can reduce the attack surface by taking precautions and being thoughtful about how you manage your dependencies. We…
How we designed and wrote the narrative for our homepage
This post is the fifth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
New global ID format coming to GraphQL
The GitHub GraphQL API has been publicly available for over 4 years now. Its usage has grown immensely over time, and we’ve learned a lot from running one of the…
Using CWE and CVSS scores to get more context on a security advisory
Security vulnerabilities can be unpleasant to address, and that only gets worse the more you have. When you’re dealing with a large volume of vulnerabilities, you need to be able…
Release Radar
Not everyone takes a break over the festive season. Some people in the community have been busy shipping releases. So we’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases…
Extending GitOps to reliability-as-code with GitHub and StackPulse
This is a partner post by Leonid Belkind, the Co-Founder and CTO at StackPulse Over the past decade, engineering-led practices have replaced traditional IT operations across the software development lifecycle.…
GitHub reduces Marketplace transaction fees, revamps Technology Partner Program
At GitHub, our community is at the heart of everything we do. We want to make it easier to build the things you love, with the tools you prefer to…
How we illustrate at GitHub
In the fourth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage, we’ll explore the artistic pipeline at GitHub to explain story, character and color, and to show how…
Fighting for developers: GitHub policy 2020 in review
GitHub is committed to shaping public policies that support developers around the globe. Last year, we advised policymakers, supported legal action, and spoke directly to developers on policy in jurisdictions…
Deployment reliability at GitHub
Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub’s scale, but there is more to it: the actual deployment mechanics need to be fast and reliable.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2021
Introduction In January, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Actions service. January 28 04:21 UTC (lasting 3 hours 53 minutes)…
What’s next for DevOps: Q&A with Lightstep CEO Ben Sigelman
In the decade since the word “DevOps” was coined, its goal has stayed the same—but the way organizations implement DevOps is constantly changing. For a closer look , we sat…
npm 7 is now generally available!
After much anticipation, the npm CLI version 7 is now generally available!
February 2021 GitHub Campus Experts applications are open
GitHub Education is on a mission to build communities and support emerging tech talent around the world. We’re looking for the next batch of student leaders to apply to the GitHub Campus Experts Program!
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…
Improving how we deploy GitHub
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the world.
Level up your code with TwilioQuest
It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open…
The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition
If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and…
Update on an employee matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 available as a release candidate!
Today, we’re making GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 available as a release candidate. Announced in the GitHub Universe Keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server, bringing customers: Actions –…
GitHub security features: highlights from 2020
We’ve made huge advances in our security features at GitHub in 2020, with launches for code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot version updates, dependency review, and more.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2020
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report.
Building On-Call Culture at GitHub
GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran
Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020
For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other…
Highlights from Game Off 2020
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as…
How to launch a tech career in 2021
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.
Let’s talk about securing open source projects
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…
Git clone: a data-driven study on cloning behaviors
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined…
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
How to make DevOps your competitive advantage
2020 has been a year of change, with shifts to the way organizations of every size connect, collaborate, and build together. From our 2020 State of the Octoverse report to…
Learn about ghapi, a new third-party Python client for the GitHub API
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more.
Happy anniversary GitHub Security Lab!
Last year at GitHub Universe, we introduced the GitHub Security Lab, which is committed to contributing resources, tooling, bounties, and security research to secure the open source ecosystem. We know…
Shifting supply chain security left with dependency review
Dependency review allows you to easily understand your dependencies before you introduce them to your environment. As part of a pull request, you can see what dependencies you’re introducing, changing, or removing, and information about their vulnerabilities, age, usage, and license.
Commits are snapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
No cookie for you
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
Reducing flaky builds by 18x
Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request…
Token authentication requirements for Git operations
In July 2020, we announced our intent to require the use of token-based authentication (for example, a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub App installation token) for all authenticated Git operations.…
Powerful updates to temporary interaction limits
Temporary interaction limits have new, powerful, and flexible updates. You can now enable interaction limits for up to six months. In addition, you can limit interactions across all your personal…
Encapsulating Ruby on Rails views
Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith.
Inspired by Open Source: Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement 2.0
GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We do that by empowering our own employees to use their creativity to learn, play, and build great…
Introducing the new Campus Advisors program
GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing…
Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program
What we look for from applicants, plus an overview of how the application process works.
GitHub in the enterprise
During the last year alone, over 56 million developers created more than 60 million new repos and made more than 1.9 billion contributions on GitHub. These developers are building the…
Building together: GitHub partner ecosystem continues to grow
We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive.
New from Universe 2020: Dark mode, GitHub Sponsors for companies, and more
Check out the latest announcements from GitHub Universe 2020, including dark mode, Sponsors for companies, improvements to Actions, dependency review, and more.
Now you C me, now you don’t, part two: exploiting the in-between
Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.
