Release Radar
We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for October 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech,…
Testing cloud apps with GitHub Actions and cloud-native open source tools
See this post in action during GitHub Demo Days on October 16. What makes a project successful? For developers building cloud-native applications, successful projects thrive on transparent, consistent, and rigorous…
GitHub Availability Report: September 2020
In September, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to the GitHub Pages service.
What is DevOps? A guide to common methods and misconceptions
By now, most people in technology are familiar with the term DevOps. What we call “DevOps” will often differ between organizations, yet one thing remains the same: DevOps is defined…
GitHub Docs are now open source
Today, we’re excited to open source GitHub Docs at http://github.com/github/docs. Being a developer means always learning, and great docs can be like rocket fuel. They’re there when you need them,…
Announcing third-party code scanning tools: infrastructure as code and container scanning
Last week we launched code scanning out of beta and have since announced integrations with static analysis and developer security training solutions. By expanding our GitHub security ecosystem, developers can…
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1
As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…
Fine-tune access to external actions
Limit use of external actions within Actions workflow for enterprises, organizations, and repositories.
Announcing third-party code scanning tools: static analysis & developer security training
Last week, we launched code scanning for all open source and enterprise developers, and we promised we’d share more on our extensibility capabilities and the GitHub security ecosystem. Today, we’re…
GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Keeping your data pipelines healthy with the Great Expectations GitHub Action
This post is the second in our series on using GitHub for MLOps and data science. Just joining in? Get started with part one. Most continuous integration (CI) tools only…
GitHub Welcomes the OpenJDK Project!
Earlier this month we were thrilled to welcome the OpenJDK Community to GitHub. The communities migration effort, codenamed Project ‘Skara’, brought JDK 16 main-line development into GitHub. The JDK project is at the…
Code scanning is now available!
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
Phishing Resistant SMS Autofill
We recently shipped support for the origin-bound draft standard for security codes delivered via SMS. This standard ensures security codes are entered in a phishing-resistant manner. It accomplishes this by binding an SMS with…
GitHub Action Hero
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics each week to help…
GitHub India Virtual Meetup – Open Source & Hacktoberfest
The developer community in India is thriving and growing. There’s lots of developers, open source maintainers, and contributors. Here at GitHub India, we’re excited to announce our next Virtual Meetup…
Lightning Q&A: DevSecOps in five with Maya Kaczorowski
In this interview, we dig deeper with Maya Kaczorowski on what DevSecOps is, and how to apply it. It’s a mindset shift in how development teams think about security. DevSecOps is about making all parties who are part of the application development lifecycle accountable for security of the application.
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is here
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22 is now here with GitHub Actions, Packages and Advanced Security Code Scanning available for the very first time.
A better logs experience with GitHub Actions
It’s now even easier to review logs from your GitHub Actions workflow runs. We’ve introduced several improvements to make the experience more performant, precise, and pleasing to use. Why these…
The grey area of software security: Whose responsibility is it?
Security is a complex area. One software component may break the assumptions made by another component and it is not always clear who should fix the code to remediate the security implications.
GitHub Mobile and GraphQL
GitHub’s mobile applications have used GraphQL to power new features. We’ve now been able to move faster and get more done with less hassle and no over-fetching. We were able…
Join us for OctogatosConf
A free two-day single track conference live on September 24 – 25, 2020 in celebration of our culture and LatinX heritage month. You will join a live stream of interactive talks by industry experts in both Spanish, Portuguese and English, with live captioning and translation. Topics will include software development, security, technical project management, civic tech, open source, professional deve
GitHub Action Hero: Stefan Zweifel and “git-auto-commit”
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
We are excited to announce our next event for Latin America, GitHub ¡Presente! In Spanish
Lee este artículo en español Estamos muy entusiasmados en anunciar nuestro siguiente evento virtual en América Latina: GitHub ¡Presente! en Español El primer evento será el Martes 22 de Septiembre…
GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we…
Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office
This post is the second in a series on access and the U.S. elections. Hear from Software Engineer and GitHub Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Kyle Daigle, on his experience volunteering at his local election office.
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams
Announcing the public beta of our new integration between GitHub and Microsoft Teams.
Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities
Remote Education explores the challenges of organizing student communities and events online. We’ll be speaking with event organizers and community leaders in the industry and academics every week to help…
Release Radar
It’s back! We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for September 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from…
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup
The developer community in Africa continues to thrive. Here at GitHub, we’re excited to announce our first Virtual Meetup for African developers. This meetup is happening on Tuesday, September 15th,…
Introducing the GitHub Stars Program ⭐️
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of those millions of developers on GitHub, there…
How we threat model
At GitHub, we spend a lot of time thinking about and building secure products—and one key facet of that is threat modeling. This practice involves bringing security and engineering teams…
Secure at every step: What is software supply chain security and why does it matter?
The most important way to protect supply chain threats? Scan code for security vulnerabilities, learn how to find vulnerabilities in code, and quickly patch them with dynamic code analysis tools.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
Introducing GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections?
Register, vote, and volunteer to make an impact during the U.S. 2020 elections.
GitHub Action Hero: Eddie Jaoude
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Secure at every step: Putting DevSecOps into practice with code scanning
Integrating static analysis security testing into the developer workflow is hard. We discuss the challenges and how to overcome them
Now you C me, now you don’t: An introduction to the hidden attack surface of interpreted languages
Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.
Adacats Mentorship Program: A growth journey
Last year, the Adacats (GitHub’s employee resource group for marginalized genders) started a mentorship program. We’re sharing insights and fun stories from this experience for anyone interested in starting a…
Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.
Automate releases and more with the new Sentry Release GitHub Action
This is a guest post by Rahul Chhabria, Director of Product Marketing at Sentry. At Sentry, we believe that code is the center of every experience and when code works,…
GitHub Action Hero: Keirron Stach
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Maintainer spotlight: Managing dependencies and the Metasploit pen testing toolkit
Keeping open source software secure is a community responsibility. But with millions of projects, it’s hard to pinpoint the right signal from noise—and find and fix the vulnerabilities that really…
Introducing The ReadME Project
Open source powers software on a planetary scale: 99% of code is built on it. The rewards and challenges of creating open source are deeply familiar to the maintainers and…
Introducing the Rally + GitHub integration
GitHub’s Professional Services Engineering team has decided to open source another project: Rally + GitHub. You may have seen our most recent open source project, Super Linter. Well, the team has done…
Karuna 2020: Using GitHub Actions in the COVID-19 response efforts
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Secure at every step: A guide to DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps
When developers share the responsibility of security, perform security testing earlier in your development lifecycle, and use Git as a source of truth, you can help your development teams find and remediate security issues faster.
Why Write ADRs
How architecture decision records can help your team.
GitHub ¡Presente! na América Latina
Nós do GitHub estamos animados em anunciar nosso meetup virtual na América Latina, o GitHub ¡Presente!
Remote work: Sharing tips for leading in a remote world
Are you leading teams in a remote world? We are wrapping up our remote working series with some final tips on leading remote and distributed teams. We hope our teams have helped while we collectively work remotely from around the world.
GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis
GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…
Achieving DevSecOps maturity with a developer-first, community-driven approach
GitHub provides the security capabilities to achieve Level 1 of the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model. In this post, we explore the principles of DSOMM Level 1 and how you can implement secret scanning, SCA, SAST and DAST using native tooling on GitHub.
GMTK Game Jam 2020 – staff picks
The fourth annual GMTK Game Jam has broken it’s previous year’s record! GMTK Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making competition focused on design, mechanics, and clever ideas. The competition has just…
GitHub Actions: Enterprise runners and fine-grained access settings with runner groups
GitHub Actions hosted virtual environments are a turn-key option for running your workflows. But if you need fine-grained control and customization of your environment, then self-hosted runners give you full…
GitHub Availability Report: July 2020
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
Secure at every step: How GitHub’s dependency graph is generated
GitHub’s dependency graph identifies all upstream dependencies and public downstream dependents of a repository or package by parsing manifest files, so that you can better manage the security and compliance of your dependencies.
GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud
Learn about patterns for configuring and maintaining GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud.
CodeGen: Semantic’s improved language support system
The Semantic Code team shipped a massive improvement to the language support system that powers code navigation. Code navigation features only scratch the surface of possibilities that start to open up when we combine Semantic‘s program analysis potential with GitHub’s scale.
