GitHub Actions: Community momentum, enterprise capabilities, and developer improvements
GitHub Actions continues its community momentum and ships new features for enterprises and developers.
Meet some of this year’s GitHub Satellite speakers
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
Stay on top of your code reviews with scheduled reminders
Scheduled reminders is out of beta to help your team be more efficient by reducing time spent waiting on code reviews, and more.
Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.
Remote work: Working together when we’re not together
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Mexico, plus some exciting updates
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Jason Etcovitch
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
npm has joined GitHub
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users
A phishing campaign targeting our customers lures GitHub users into providing their credentials (including two-factor authentication codes). Learn more about the threat and what you can do to protect yourself.
Git credential helper vulnerability announced
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.
GitHub is free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
Remote work: A series of best practices for a remote workplace
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
From 48k lines of code to 10—the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK
Learn about the legacy, architecture, and methods used to reduce 48k lines of code to 10 as we take a deep dive into GitHub’s Javascript SDK.
Featured actions from the GitHub Actions Hackathon
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
Learn about open source in the social sector from our latest report
Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.
Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Vitor Monteiro
There are lots of hidden secrets, keyboard shortcuts, hacks, and more that can make you and your team’s GitHub experience more productive, personal, and entertaining. Here are some Protips that Vitor Monteiro, GitHub Strategic Architect, has picked up along the way that might be useful to you.
February service disruptions post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of February service disruptions that impacted GitHub services.
Six years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
Learn more about the Bug Bounty program, including a recap of 2019’s bugs, our expanded scope, new features, and more.
GitHub Desktop 2.4 introduces proxy support and issue creation
GitHub Desktop 2.4 gets you set up to work behind a proxy without having to configure anything manually, allows you to easily create an issue, and brings dark theme out of beta.
Easier organization and increased scalability for repository administrators
With easier organization and increased scalability, repository admins can more efficiently control access management to get users the permissions they need.
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
Open collaboration on COVID-19
Explore some impactful open source projects being created by teams around the world in response to COVID-19.
Highlights from Git 2.26
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
GitHub Action Hero: Shohei Ueda
We spoke with our latest GitHub Action Hero, Shohei Ueda, about the story behind Hugo setup, mdbook Action, and a few other projects.
Getting to know the #NewYearNewPack winners
#NewYearNewPack winner Frank Matranga shares how the Pack helped him bring his open-source student planner to life.
Set up your digital classroom with GitHub Classroom
Many teachers are moving to virtual solutions for managing student assignments, projects, and grading. Join webinars hosted by GitHub Education Experts to share how teachers can manage and organize their class with GitHub Classroom.
CERT partners with GitHub Security Lab for automated remediation
Learn more about how we found ways to scale our vulnerability hunting efforts and empower others to do the same. In this post, we’ll take a deep-dive in the remediation of a security vulnerability with CERT.
Improve student success and increase teacher time with autograding
Learn more about autograding and how it provides students with immediate feedback they can apply before an assignment is due.
GitHub for mobile is now available
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
npm is joining GitHub
We’re excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
Enhancing our COVID-19 response to care for our community and team
We’ve taken further steps to ensure that our people can be safe and productive wherever they are, and that our community’s home on GitHub remains reliable and resilient.
Introducing autograding for GitHub Classroom and the GitHub Teacher Toolbox
GitHub Education introduces two new features to help you shape the next generation of software developers, with the GitHub Teacher Toolbox and more automation for GitHub Classroom.
Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020
Learn about five more reasons why every enterprise should make innersource a priority in 2020.
Five reasons why organizations should invest in open source
Learn about the top five reasons why leading enterprise organizations are investing in open source.
COVID-19 update: supporting our employees and community
Learn more about decisions we’ve made to protect our employees, our community, and our customers in response to COVID-19.
February service disruptions
Recently, we’ve had multiple service interruptions on GitHub.com. We know how important reliability of our service is for your projects and teams. We take this responsibility very seriously and apologize…
We’re challenging you to create your very own GitHub Actions
Starting March 5, we’re hosting an online GitHub Actions Hackathon challenging you to create original Actions.
Your new web notifications experience is here
Quickly find and take action on your notifications with the new notifications experience on GitHub.com
Over 100 partners to help you succeed with the GitHub Student Developer Pack
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers the best real-world developer tools and training from over 100 partner companies.
2019 Transparency Report
We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2019 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.
GitHub partners with HackYourFuture
GitHub is now a proud sponsor of Hack Your Future, a not-for-profit coding school for refugees and other people that have limited access to education and the labor market. Learn more about the latest campaign, Behind the Source.
Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more
In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta
We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
Announcing GitHub India
We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20 is here
Additional security features, a new internal visibility option, and more with the latest updates to GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20.
Show open source some love and win a GitHub Hoodie with #OpenSourceValentine
Share your love for open source and learn how to get involved for a chance to win a GitHub hoodie.
Get more information at a glance with issue and pull request linking
Now, anyone can connect an issue to a pull request from the issue directly using the new linked pull request section providing greater context to your workflow.
Manage secrets and more with the GitHub Actions API
Manage secrets, make use of self-hosted runners, and more with the GitHub Actions API—now available in beta.
Highlight your project on Local Hack Day: Share
GitHub and Major League Hacking (MLH) came together to organize Local Hack Day: Share.
The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived
On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.
GitHub Desktop 2.3 removes obstacles to help you be more productive
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.
How we built the good first issues feature
We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers $200k worth of tools and training to every student
The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.
The GitHub for Android beta is here
The GitHub for mobile beta is now available on Android—learn more and sign up to be part of a limited test group.
Game Off 2019 Winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.